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Great, can you explain why my daughter with a 35 ACT (99th percentile) currently sits on the VT waitlist?[/quote]

The ACT score is just one facet of admissions. Nobody can expect to get in just on the basis of SAT/ACT alone as a leading highlight.
In fact, it has not the primary metric for some time now (according to multiple AOs) but used as confirmation instead.

What was the GPA? More importantly, what went in into achieving that GPA? What were the distribution of grades over 4 years? Were rigorous classes taken? What were grades in classes pertinent to the intended major? Did they take the classes expected?

And there's essays.

And then there are letters of recommendation which you have no access to.

If VT was indeed yield protecting (which I don't think it has the resources to do so), how do you explain all the top of the class at xxx HS (e.g. TJHSST) getting in? These children would not go to VT. And yet they were accepted this year.

There's always an element of surprise. Perhaps you got a bad read. It happens, sorry to say, but best of luck.

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