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Anonymous wrote:Coming from a Northern Virginia public school, what GPA and SAT make you competitive? Is one weighted more heavily than the other? Does anything make you a shoo-in? Do specific grades matter (I.e. not having all As in math)?

Also appreciate stats from anyone who was admitted. We’ve looked at Naviance, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason. It also doesn’t differentiate for engineering vs other majors .

It's really hard to say. You can get admission stats from naviance for your school and from the tech website for overall. You can also get selectivity information at a very granular level (e.g. number of in-state students applied and admitted to Aerospace engineering who were male and not first-gen). You'll find that engineering is a very hard admit. On top of that, Tech also manages yield aggressively (i.e. protects yield). If you have a very high GPA and very high SAT, you may not get in while kids with lowers stats do.

If you are hellbent on getting into Tech, a good backdoor would be to get into an easier admit program and transfer into engineering after the first semester. This link talks about all the transfer requirements. Pick a major that you can live with, look at the requirements you'd need to meet and make sure those requirements also go towards the major you pick or other academic requirements at Tech.

https://www.vt.edu/admissions/transfer/roadmaps.html

big known issue with VT. Glad UVA does not play the yield game.

VT does not yield protect. And this thread isn’t about UVA.

Yield Protection

Virginia Tech does not participate in yield protection.
https://www.vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/counselor-corner.html

And you are allowed to believe what you want.

As are you. Moving on…

My DS applied last year and was excepted into their engineering program. He is a northern Va public school. He had a 4.5 weighted GPA with the highest math and science classes that his school offered in his schedule. He had a 1500 on SAT- 800 in Math. He had a year round sport, part time job since 10th grade, summer STEM enrichment programs, STEM extracurriculars in high school, pretty extensive volunteering, some unique awards. He is not a minority and not first generation. Hope this helps you- I agree that Naviance was not helpful in gauging whether he would get in or not. Good luck!

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Anonymous wrote:Coming from a Northern Virginia public school, what GPA and SAT make you competitive? Is one weighted more heavily than the other? Does anything make you a shoo-in? Do specific grades matter (I.e. not having all As in math)?

Also appreciate stats from anyone who was admitted. We’ve looked at Naviance, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason. It also doesn’t differentiate for engineering vs other majors .

It's really hard to say. You can get admission stats from naviance for your school and from the tech website for overall. You can also get selectivity information at a very granular level (e.g. number of in-state students applied and admitted to Aerospace engineering who were male and not first-gen). You'll find that engineering is a very hard admit. On top of that, Tech also manages yield aggressively (i.e. protects yield). If you have a very high GPA and very high SAT, you may not get in while kids with lowers stats do.

If you are hellbent on getting into Tech, a good backdoor would be to get into an easier admit program and transfer into engineering after the first semester. This link talks about all the transfer requirements. Pick a major that you can live with, look at the requirements you'd need to meet and make sure those requirements also go towards the major you pick or other academic requirements at Tech.

https://www.vt.edu/admissions/transfer/roadmaps.html

big known issue with VT. Glad UVA does not play the yield game.

VT does not yield protect. And this thread isn’t about UVA.

Yield Protection

Virginia Tech does not participate in yield protection.
https://www.vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/counselor-corner.html

And you are allowed to believe what you want.

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Anonymous wrote:Coming from a Northern Virginia public school, what GPA and SAT make you competitive? Is one weighted more heavily than the other? Does anything make you a shoo-in? Do specific grades matter (I.e. not having all As in math)?

Also appreciate stats from anyone who was admitted. We’ve looked at Naviance, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason. It also doesn’t differentiate for engineering vs other majors .

It's really hard to say. You can get admission stats from naviance for your school and from the tech website for overall. You can also get selectivity information at a very granular level (e.g. number of in-state students applied and admitted to Aerospace engineering who were male and not first-gen). You'll find that engineering is a very hard admit. On top of that, Tech also manages yield aggressively (i.e. protects yield). If you have a very high GPA and very high SAT, you may not get in while kids with lowers stats do.

If you are hellbent on getting into Tech, a good backdoor would be to get into an easier admit program and transfer into engineering after the first semester. This link talks about all the transfer requirements. Pick a major that you can live with, look at the requirements you'd need to meet and make sure those requirements also go towards the major you pick or other academic requirements at Tech.

https://www.vt.edu/admissions/transfer/roadmaps.html

big known issue with VT. Glad UVA does not play the yield game.

VT does not yield protect. And this thread isn’t about UVA.

Yield Protection

Virginia Tech does not participate in yield protection.
https://www.vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/counselor-corner.html

Anonymous wrote:When VT had early decision - people with good stats from Nova would apply ED for engineering and they would get in then, for yield reasons. I don’t know how you can let them know it’s your first choice now without ED. I have a sophomore in HS so would like to learn this in 2 years

Agreed. I so wish they had kept ED as it’s the most logical way to show it’s your first choice. My rising junior is so anxious about this! It’s his top choice, bar none.

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Anonymous wrote:Coming from a Northern Virginia public school, what GPA and SAT make you competitive? Is one weighted more heavily than the other? Does anything make you a shoo-in? Do specific grades matter (I.e. not having all As in math)?

Also appreciate stats from anyone who was admitted. We’ve looked at Naviance, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason. It also doesn’t differentiate for engineering vs other majors .

It's really hard to say. You can get admission stats from naviance for your school and from the tech website for overall. You can also get selectivity information at a very granular level (e.g. number of in-state students applied and admitted to Aerospace engineering who were male and not first-gen). You'll find that engineering is a very hard admit. On top of that, Tech also manages yield aggressively (i.e. protects yield). If you have a very high GPA and very high SAT, you may not get in while kids with lowers stats do.

If you are hellbent on getting into Tech, a good backdoor would be to get into an easier admit program and transfer into engineering after the first semester. This link talks about all the transfer requirements. Pick a major that you can live with, look at the requirements you'd need to meet and make sure those requirements also go towards the major you pick or other academic requirements at Tech.

https://www.vt.edu/admissions/transfer/roadmaps.html

big known issue with VT. Glad UVA does not play the yield game.

When VT had early decision - people with good stats from Nova would apply ED for engineering and they would get in then, for yield reasons. I don’t know how you can let them know it’s your first choice now without ED. I have a sophomore in HS so would like to learn this in 2 years

Anonymous wrote:Coming from a Northern Virginia public school, what GPA and SAT make you competitive? Is one weighted more heavily than the other? Does anything make you a shoo-in? Do specific grades matter (I.e. not having all As in math)?

Also appreciate stats from anyone who was admitted. We’ve looked at Naviance, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason. It also doesn’t differentiate for engineering vs other majors .

It's really hard to say. You can get admission stats from naviance for your school and from the tech website for overall. You can also get selectivity information at a very granular level (e.g. number of in-state students applied and admitted to Aerospace engineering who were male and not first-gen). You'll find that engineering is a very hard admit. On top of that, Tech also manages yield aggressively (i.e. protects yield). If you have a very high GPA and very high SAT, you may not get in while kids with lowers stats do.

If you are hellbent on getting into Tech, a good backdoor would be to get into an easier admit program and transfer into engineering after the first semester. This link talks about all the transfer requirements. Pick a major that you can live with, look at the requirements you'd need to meet and make sure those requirements also go towards the major you pick or other academic requirements at Tech.

https://www.vt.edu/admissions/transfer/roadmaps.html

VT is still test optional, just remember that the average SAT scores published are skewed because not all who get in send scores.

Never mind. I see the link to majors on the right side.

To OP, your best source of info on the GPA/SAT is your FCPS school Naviance site.

Anonymous wrote:This is a great resource.

https://udc.vt.edu/irdata/data/students/admission/index

Is there any way to work that to show GPA or SAT scores per school? i.e. com sci/engineering

This is a great resource.

https://udc.vt.edu/irdata/data/students/admission/index

What really helps is to be a first generation college student. 40% of Vt students are, because it’s their goal and they’ve hit that every year since 2022.

VT has the best admissions data by demographics. Let me take a look for the link.

FWIW, my 1400 Sat 4.1 gpa kid with 8 APs did not get into Pamplin. From Fcps.

When my son went to VT engineering, an admissions person told me they looked for SAT Math > 650. That was way back in 2015. Good grades in math and science more than overall GPA. I would think AP Calculus, AP Physics, AP Chemistry.

Coming from a Northern Virginia public school, what GPA and SAT make you competitive? Is one weighted more heavily than the other? Does anything make you a shoo-in? Do specific grades matter (I.e. not having all As in math)?

Also appreciate stats from anyone who was admitted. We’ve looked at Naviance, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason. It also doesn’t differentiate for engineering vs other majors .