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The oversubscription is a huge positive.  What school doesn't want to be oversubscribed in that way?  It made national news.  Yes, some students are now being paid to go to community college or taking the $1000 not to show up.  win-win for VT.[/quote]

Nope.

Retention and graduation rates will take a hit unless there is an immediate influx of resources, which isn't happening in VT's case.

In addition, SCHEV will censure VT over this. Tech took students who could have enrolled at other schools. [b]The fact that JMU went hard to their waitlist and several Virginia publics were on the open space list is a direct result of VT's poor projection of their yield. [/b]

Also, this is happening every other year at Tech. They can't seem to get it right. That points to serious issues in their enrollment management team. [/quote]
What's the "open space list"? (Does it mean: "we have open spaces, anybody can enroll?") Is this just an expression or is there an actual list?[/quote]

It's an actual list. Used to be called the "Space Availability Survey" and now it is just called "College Openings Update." They would have exhausted their waitlists if they had them to be on the list. Over 100 schools were on the list and plenty were in Virginia.

Your kid's counselor knows about it. The day it comes out, there is all kinds of talk about who is on the list among counselors. Plenty of solid names are on there.

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