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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]virginia tech big time[/quote]

1. VT is not a safety.
2. VT does not yield-protect and says as much right on their website.

[b]"Yield Protection
Virginia Tech does not participate in yield protection."
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https://www.vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/counselor-corner.html#:~:text=Virginia%20Tech%20does%20not,participate%20in%20yield%20protection.[/quote]

OP here.
I’ve heard that if you have over a 1500 SAT to watch out with VT.  That’s really sad because it’s a top choice for my son. He submitted his app early (yesterday) plus we toured in Jan. Hopefully that signals to VT, that he is interested.[/quote]

DP
SAT scores don’t matter as much as GPA and the VT essays. VT does not yield protect. [/quote]

According to our Navience data they clearly do, or at least overly use waitlist for high stats kids.  Better chance of getting in with a 4.1/1460 than a 4.4/1560.  We had 20+ waitlisted kids with over a 4.1 and over a 1500, including 4.6/1570, 4.6/1580, 4.5/1590.  Also two outright rejections at 4.3/1550.  Kind of crazy for a school with an average SAT of 1260.  [/quote]

I'm seeing a huge forest of green in the top right of our naviance for VT. Over 1300 SAT and 4.0 gpa is essentially an auto-admit. Nothing about it says "yield protection". There are some waitlists in this high stats group, but given that (for example) in the group >1400 >4.3 there are about 50 admits, it is absurd to attribute the 7 waitlisted applicants to "yield protection".[/quote]

Who said anything about seven? [b][I said it because it's on my school's naviance, idiot.] [/b] At our school for over 4.0 and over 1500 we have 29 waitlist and 4 rejections.[b] [Does your school necessarily report it when the WL is converted into an admit or deny?][/b] Over 4.0 and 1350-1490 is almost an auto-admit.  Obviously data from one school is not dispositive, but the higher stats kids at our school are getting different results than you would expect. [b][Like I said, our school shows exactly what you would expect - high stats kids overwhelmingly admitted, no anomalous pattern of high stats rejections.][/b] I'm not sure why VT people are so defensive about this. [b][I'm not a VT person and I'm not being "defensive" I'm pointing out you have failed to prove your claim which is triggering you.][/b]  There were a few years in recent history when VT overenrolled because they got more yield than they expected and they probably started using waitlist more to protect against overenrolling. [b][Their yield has been consistently dropping since 2011. Isn't "yield protection" supposed to stop that from happening?][/b]  If you want to call it yield management instead I guess that if fine.  Everyone should check the data from their school and plan accordingly.[/quote]

For our school VT is basically a safety for high stats kids.[/quote]

Not at ours.  It’s the first choice school for many high-stats kids.  Think of it  as a safety at your peril.
DP[/quote]

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