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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VT has become incredibly competitive. It received a school record 45,214 first-year applications for fall 2022 admission -- an increase of 7 percent over the previous year's record of 42,084 applicants.

The average high school GPA of the Class of 2026 (this year's freshmen) was 4.19 -- a 0.09 increase from last year’s freshman class.

[Both excerpts from articles easily found online]

Personally, I think the admission rate range anywhere from 56% to 68% found online (depending on the source) seems rather high. I wouldn't be surprised if it's lower than 50% now.[/quote]

[b]Fall 2022 entering class:  45,185 applicants and 25,799 acceptances = 57% acceptance rate

https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/06/em-fall2022snapshot.html
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You cannot use percentage of admittances to compare public schools to privates because public school applicants are self-selected by the student with the assistance of SCHEv and Naviance and directed by their public high school counselors to the best suited public universities.  Same with other state run public universities.[/quote]

Then why is the acceptance rate for UVA so much lower?  (Your argument would apply for that school as well.)   Same thing with W&M.[/quote]

UVA and W&M have really low OOS acceptances rates, dragging down their overall acceptance rates. Tech is the opposite- OOS acceptance rate is higher and brings their overall acceptance rates up. At my kids private, the UVA acceptance rates was 27% last year. W&M and Tech were both 39%.[/quote]

Sorry, that should say at my kid’s public school…[/quote]

The thing about VT is that there is such a big disparity between acceptance rates for different majors.  For example, it's probably harder to get into VT engineering from in-state than into W&M, but definitely easier to get into numerous majors in the College of Arts and Sciences, etc. in-state than into W&M.[/quote]

I agree with this. I just don’t think the prior PPs were appropriately accounting for the impact of OOS acceptance rates on overall acceptance rates. Tech’s in state acceptance rate is dropping fast, but you may not see that when viewing their overall acceptance rate. [/quote]

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