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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a mess.  I keep thinking this is what wait lists are for.  Perhaps this is related to Amazon, but that campus is supposed to be for graduates, right?  Amazon is looking to hire from all Virginia schools with the encouragement that they step up the number of graduates in relevant fields like CS.[/quote]

The press releases and statements show them trying to spin this as excitement over Amazon, but I really don't think that's a factor. [/quote]

Yes! I find it infuriating they are trying to spin this with the Innovation Campus. 
Don't get me wrong--I think the Innovation Campus is great, and I think it will be great for the DC area and the students that eventually attend it, but there's just no way that it is the reason for this screw up with enrollment.

From the article at the start of this thread...
Describing the students who were eligible for these various offers to entice them to stay away from Blacksburg:
"The incoming freshmen are in-state students who have declared the following majors:
General engineering.
Mechanical engineering.
Aerospace engineering.
Biomedical engineering.
Biology.
University studies, essentially an undeclared major.
Exploring technologies, a subset of university studies."

Notice what's not here? Computer science!

In press releases put out by Virginia Tech talking about the Innovation Campus
https://vt.edu/innovationcampus/News/2019/March/innovation-campus-drives-progress.html
They talk about the types of undergraduate majors and and graduate programs that connect with Innovation Campus. Not surprisingly, it's things like:
computer sciences
software engineering
data sciences
analytics and collective decisions
security and the internet of things
technology and policy
Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT)

If there really was some huge enthusiastic surge related to Innovation Campus, with lots more applicants deciding to apply and enroll, then that's where the bump should be. Not in those particular areas of engineering, and certainly not in biology or undeclared.  :roll: 
They @#%! up, and they need to own it.
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