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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are some posters here who REFUSE to believe the VT admission got really tough.

Yes the admission rate is still relatively high. But getting in as a Virginia resident is difficult. Getting in from Nortern Virginia is even more difficult. Getting into VT engineering from Northern Virginia is really difficult especially if your DC is a white male.

VT used to be a safety school 30 years ago. JMU used to be its peer school. Things got changed but some posters just don’t want to accept the current trend. [/quote]

+1 My kid in 2021 with a 4.83/4.0 from a Governor's School, #4 of 600+, 35/1560, 3 varsity letters with a captainship and state championship, state and regional chemistry awards,  senior internship with an orthopedic surgeon and all of the other bells and whistles (NHS, Spanish Honor Society, Science Honor Society, Special Olympics).  Accepted to Duke, Vandy, UVA (Echols Scholar), W&M (Monroe Scholar), Pepperdine Presidents Scholarship and Pitt Honors [b]was waitlisted at VT for the College of Science (Chemistry).[/b]  The 3 ahead of them are all at a HYPSM and the one after is OOS at a coveted UC.  Of the total top 5, 3 were waitlisted the other two accepted to engineering but as I said are at a HYPSM.  I would say admissions are unpredictable at VT and don't take it for granted.[/quote]

Yield protection, pure and simple.  VT knows that applicants like your child with the bona fides for the most selective schools will very likely choose to study elsewhere.  If your child really wanted to attend VT (I assume it was their safety), they should have clearly indicated in their essay or elsewhere that VT was their first choice. [/quote]

Yes, they understand the Tufts Syndrome or "yield protection" and yes it was a safety but would have been a high consideration for reasons not germane to this discussion.  The point of my post was to highlight that VT admissions are indeed a conundrum for the high stats and for lack of a better term borderline high stats students...you simply cannot consider it a safety anymore as many of the PPs have stated.  JMU is now the premier safety school  that meets that criteria in VA, all of the students mentioned above got in.  So as PP said if you really want to go there than ED VT otherwise don't count on it for non-engineering if you are a high stats kid.

The majority of students that were accepted to VT from my kids class ranged in the 10-30%.  Personally, I think all of our VA schools getting more selective is a good thing.  As a UCLA grad raised in CA now living in VA, I would like to see VA move towards a great collegiate system like they have there with multiple selective universities in both the UC and CS systems, no other state can compete with CA when it comes to the breadth and quality of it's college education.  I will say this though, turning down high stats students because you think they won't attend is short sighted especially if you want to increase your already outstanding educational experience.  If a school is that confident they won't attend than what is the point of not accepting them?   Who knows they might go?  A lot of high stats students don't ED, they don't need to and no student should have to beg an institution for acceptance. [/quote]

You make good points.  And here's one more thing -- despite practicing yield protection more than some other Virginia schools, the Common Data Set for VT says that an applicant's level of interest isn't even considered.  Yeah, right. [/quote]

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