Anonymous
Post 06/18/2025 16:49     Subject: VA Tech
My kid had 10 AP. 4.1, tons and tons of volunteering, quality leadership, state competitions, 4 year varsity sports, TO, employment, spent very much time and effort on the essays that are difficult to answer. Business. Waitlisted, still not in now.

If you look at naviance for our school for prior years would thought would be in especially since not engineering.

It is very disappointing to me that they didn't get in. Did not want JMU, so will now go oos to a school with a 25% OOS acceptance rate. But as a FFX taxpayer I am grumpy. We didn't treat it as a safety, but I cannot believe they didn't get in.

Anonymous
Post 06/18/2025 16:16     Subject: VA Tech
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Your kid will have no problem getting in. It's a 60% admit rate.


Using numbers from the 24-25 Common Data set, the in state admit rate was around 47.7%. It was 59.1% for OOS, and 66.0% for international students.

I know a lot of FCPS kids with 4.0+ GPAs, decent test scores, community service hours, and solid ECs who got wait-listed or even flat out denied this year.


True, but the context is important: many public schools in Fairfax county as well as other UMC areas of Virginia have GPA distributions such that 60-80% of the senior class has above 4.0W. 4.1-4.3 is a very common median Weighted GPA in our state. Virginia Tech is not as selective as a T20 but it most certainly is selective and does not admit students around the median GPA unless it is an extremely rigorous private or one of the STEM-focused top public magnets, and even then typically one needs to be top third or close. From a typical FCPS school VT takes from the top 20% and UVA from the top 10%. 4.2W is not going to come close.

I disagree that it takes a 4.2 weighted GPA. I posted this in the other active VT thread. VT is a large public university that admits a lot of kids across the state. I only need to look at my kid's FCPS Naviance to see the test scores and GPAs of students admitted to VT. At my kid's school VT admits start at 3.5 WPGA with SATs (probably TO) at a little over 1000. So yes, plenty of below average students from my kid's school are getting admitted to VT. I'm sure for the most part these kids are not being admitted to engineering or business, but they are still students at VT.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2025 14:45     Subject: VA Tech
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Your kid will have no problem getting in. It's a 60% admit rate.


Using numbers from the 24-25 Common Data set, the in state admit rate was around 47.7%. It was 59.1% for OOS, and 66.0% for international students.

I know a lot of FCPS kids with 4.0+ GPAs, decent test scores, community service hours, and solid ECs who got wait-listed or even flat out denied this year.


True, but the context is important: many public schools in Fairfax county as well as other UMC areas of Virginia have GPA distributions such that 60-80% of the senior class has above 4.0W. 4.1-4.3 is a very common median Weighted GPA in our state. Virginia Tech is not as selective as a T20 but it most certainly is selective and does not admit students around the median GPA unless it is an extremely rigorous private or one of the STEM-focused top public magnets, and even then typically one needs to be top third or close. From a typical FCPS school VT takes from the top 20% and UVA from the top 10%. 4.2W is not going to come close.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2025 14:38     Subject: VA Tech
Anonymous wrote:What GPA has you child gotten into that you were surprised of, considering their low GPA ?

Ds has a very rigorous course load with Dual enrollment, and is going to a magnet school.
I am asking be there are tons of smart kids, and wanted to see where he would stand.
The gpa requirement says 3.0. and above.
His is 4.2 weighted.
He is in Varsity Track and not much else.
Thanks


often contradictory depending on the high school, DE is considered less rigorous than AP options but may not matter for VT
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 22:00     Subject: VA Tech
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:3.2 gpa and 1590 SAT, got in no problem


How did he prep for the SAT? 1590 implies he's not a slacker; combined with a 3.2 to me implies that he is not a test taker;

So what he do to prep for the SAT? and good job BTW.


You're responding to a troll.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 21:59     Subject: VA Tech
Anonymous wrote:Your kid will have no problem getting in. It's a 60% admit rate.


Annnd the troll rears his/her head, yet again. Please ignore this person.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 21:57     Subject: VA Tech
Anonymous wrote:What GPA has you child gotten into that you were surprised of, considering their low GPA ?

Ds has a very rigorous course load with Dual enrollment, and is going to a magnet school.
I am asking be there are tons of smart kids, and wanted to see where he would stand.
The gpa requirement says 3.0. and above.
His is 4.2 weighted.
He is in Varsity Track and not much else.
Thanks


Um, what?
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 21:28     Subject: VA Tech
Big threê
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 20:21     Subject: VA Tech
Anonymous wrote:Your kid will have no problem getting in. It's a 60% admit rate.


Using numbers from the 24-25 Common Data set, the in state admit rate was around 47.7%. It was 59.1% for OOS, and 66.0% for international students.

I know a lot of FCPS kids with 4.0+ GPAs, decent test scores, community service hours, and solid ECs who got wait-listed or even flat out denied this year.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 20:04     Subject: VA Tech
Anonymous wrote:3.2 gpa and 1590 SAT, got in no problem


How did he prep for the SAT? 1590 implies he's not a slacker; combined with a 3.2 to me implies that he is not a test taker;

So what he do to prep for the SAT? and good job BTW.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 18:50     Subject: VA Tech
3.2 gpa and 1590 SAT, got in no problem
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 18:48     Subject: VA Tech
Anonymous wrote:Your kid will have no problem getting in. It's a 60% admit rate.


It totally depends on what major, what high school you attend, and how you respond to the Ut Prosim essay and how your application demonstrates service.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 18:36     Subject: VA Tech
Your kid will have no problem getting in. It's a 60% admit rate.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 18:30     Subject: Re:VA Tech
Anonymous wrote:Where’s the Va Tech police lady?


Huh? 🤔
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 18:26     Subject: VA Tech
Need to differentiate by which VT program one is applying to. Engineering is different from ... which is different from Agriculture...