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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Like so many straight A students who were chief school newspaper editor, captain of a varsity sports team, volunteering, and more who can't even get to VA Tech. I don't know what people who get into schools like Michigan or the Ivy Leagues are doing in high school. [/quote]

Anyone with some hard classes and good but not great scores can get into VT with this, even without all As. [b]ECs /essaysare not used for VT except for borderline cases. [/b]They dip below the top30% at my school. UVA and Michigan require more. Ivies require hardest courses in all areas and all As/top5% and better ECs than this. [/quote]

What?  VT absolutely uses essays - their own, not the Common App.  And ECs too.  Where are you getting your information?  VT is quite competitive to get into at our high school - certainly not below the top 10-20%.  
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DP from our private school kids around the average get in , 1300 or so, middle of the pack Gpa. The head dean of counseling has college representatives come to the school for parent and student panel discussions and they say they use grades , courses, scores first. ECs do not need to be extensive, a part time job or a sport, or volunteer for something. One or two things is plenty. The essays are more of a check box , and as long as you don't say, Wahoo-wa or some other reference to a particular school, it is fine. He actually mentioned wahoo-wa as something they had seen. The uva panelist laughed and agreed the essays are a small part, it is mostly transcript but that person really emphasized taking all the hard courses especially advanced english seminar which is our hardest level equivalent to AP lit. The smaller school panelists such as the one from Wellesley said they get so many top -transcript applicants and have so few spots that the essays and being able to show your ECs are varied and impactful are a sizable part of the final cull. When you listen to the differences it starts to be very clear why some schools only take from the top 20% of the school and others take from the middle of the pack. [/quote]

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