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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your student is not interested in engineering, the GPA/test scores of admitted students and acceptance rate at VT will be similar to JMU. [/quote]

Evidence/citation for this assertion?  [/quote]

Not true for business either. My ds was waitlisted and never moved from waitlist for VT, but was admitted to the honors college at JMU.

Vt publishes all kinds of data by major and demographics, go look it up. [/quote]

Engineering and Business turn down a lot of very good students[/quote]

Why is the overall acceptance rate over 60%? Does any other major university have such a gap between a handful of majors and everyone else? [b]It just doesn’t make sense. [/quote][/b]

I think a lot of publics do.  UCs, with the exceptions of Merced, Santa Cruz and Riverside, don’t have the admission rate of VT, but have large gaps between Business, Engineering, CS and non-STEM majors.[/quote]

Of course it makes sense. It’s a tech school. It excels at engineering and mathematics, not soft humanities. Would you go to Georgia Tech for a history degree? No, you would not. But GT (also public and a tech school) does have a small history department[/quote]

This again?  I have kids at VT getting *gasp* humanities degrees and receiving a wonderful education.  MIT, VT, GT - all of these schools are excellent all around, not just at “tech”.[/quote]

My daughter has a 3.73 weighted GPA and a 1350 SAT Score.  She is interested in Political Science, International Relations etc. degrees.  VT is on the top of her list, but I'm wondering if she will have a chance.[/quote]

Definitely apply.  I wholeheartedly recommend this school.[/quote]

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