Anonymous
Post 05/06/2019 15:15     Subject: Virginia Tech gets 1,000 more freshman than last year
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Purdue is accepting students who they previously denied. Enrollment management, anyone?


actually, they did a fine job. some years you should undershoot if you are doing it right. there's nothing to do about the random element.

better too few than too many.

I feel bad for the Tech engineering kids who stand even less of a chance of lasting until second year.


If you’re talking about Purdue, no, they did a terrible job. These kids were rejected in January and now miraculously admitted. That means their projections were waaaay off, and their waitlist was to short. How embarrassing for the school.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2019 15:02     Subject: Virginia Tech gets 1,000 more freshman than last year
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Last year's freshman class was 6,428. This year's projected to be 7,500-7,585.

https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2019/05/provost-admissions-2019.html


Wow!

I would hate that. There sent housing for that many!


They are now allowing freshman students to live off campus.


That's incredible. Mason doesn't even allow that.

No one:
Literally not a single soul:
Mason mom: GMU requires ALL freshmen to live on campus!!!!


It's typical in Florida. I don't know of any schools in FL that require their freshman to live on campus. And, yes, some schools do not have room for all of the freshman who want to live on campus.

Anonymous
Post 05/06/2019 14:59     Subject: Virginia Tech gets 1,000 more freshman than last year
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I seem to remember that last year they had fewer admissions because they had over admitted the year before. Or something like that.


Our daughter goes to tack and I seem to recall them saying they had a few more thousand applicants this year than last but the number was not super significant. It didn’t seem like there were that many fewer applications for last year.


They had a record number of applicants last year but they accepted fewer applicants because they had over admitted the year before.

This year may have been another record breaker for applicants and possibly a greater percentage of the applicants being offered admission are accepting their offers.

Anonymous
Post 05/06/2019 14:50     Subject: Virginia Tech gets 1,000 more freshman than last year
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Last year's freshman class was 6,428. This year's projected to be 7,500-7,585.

https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2019/05/provost-admissions-2019.html


Wow!

I would hate that. There sent housing for that many!


They are now allowing freshman students to live off campus.


That's incredible. Mason doesn't even allow that.

No one:
Literally not a single soul:
Mason mom: GMU requires ALL freshmen to live on campus!!!!
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2019 14:48     Subject: Virginia Tech gets 1,000 more freshman than last year
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Last year's freshman class was 6,428. This year's projected to be 7,500-7,585.

https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2019/05/provost-admissions-2019.html


Wow!

I would hate that. There sent housing for that many!


They are now allowing freshman students to live off campus.


That's incredible. Mason doesn't even allow that.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2019 14:39     Subject: Virginia Tech gets 1,000 more freshman than last year
Anonymous wrote:

Every school has admit/waitlist/reject. That article is saying that VT admitted too many. No one is getting off the waitlist.


And they admitted over 1000 more than they should have. That is not good practice. Case is conservative with acceptances and has a very active weekly WL to get the exact amount of kids on their campus and not F up housing for freshman.
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Oh, I see what you were saying. Sorry, I misunderstood.

I assume most schools use the waitlist this way.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2019 14:38     Subject: Virginia Tech gets 1,000 more freshman than last year
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Especially engineering students.

Looks like VT is going more holistic and had an easy admit year. More than every before. So for many kids, this was probably by far the best school they got into. Many sadly don't realize how crappy they are to the kids once they are there. Sophomore drop out and change of majors is the highest I have ever seen.


It looks like they have a 92% retention rate.

64% 4-year grad rate
83% 6-year grad rate

https://www.irinfo.ir.vt.edu/VT_Stats/IR%20Customers%202/Students/Retention/Longitudinal%20Retention/University/UNIVERSITY_retention.html
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2019 14:37     Subject: Virginia Tech gets 1,000 more freshman than last year
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Last year's freshman class was 6,428. This year's projected to be 7,500-7,585.

https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2019/05/provost-admissions-2019.html


Wow!

I would hate that. There sent housing for that many!


They are now allowing freshman students to live off campus.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2019 14:37     Subject: Virginia Tech gets 1,000 more freshman than last year
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Purdue is accepting students who they previously denied. Enrollment management, anyone?


Ridiculous.

I think Case Western has the best practice for admitting/WL/reject. They never have housing issues and always have the right amount.


Every school has admit/waitlist/reject. That article is saying that VT admitted too many. No one is getting off the waitlist.


And they admitted over 1000 more than they should have. That is not good practice. Case is conservative with acceptances and has a very active weekly WL to get the exact amount of kids on their campus and not F up housing for freshman.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2019 14:35     Subject: Virginia Tech gets 1,000 more freshman than last year
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:perhaps it is hard to cope with the moving target of grade inflation and too many aps per kid.

I could see being 100 over, but 1000?


If my kid were one of them, I'd call Purdue ASAP.


Especially engineering students.

Looks like VT is going more holistic and had an easy admit year. More than every before. So for many kids, this was probably by far the best school they got into. Many sadly don't realize how crappy they are to the kids once they are there. Sophomore drop out and change of majors is the highest I have ever seen.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2019 14:34     Subject: Virginia Tech gets 1,000 more freshman than last year
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Purdue is accepting students who they previously denied. Enrollment management, anyone?


Ridiculous.

I think Case Western has the best practice for admitting/WL/reject. They never have housing issues and always have the right amount.


Every school has admit/waitlist/reject. That article is saying that VT admitted too many. No one is getting off the waitlist.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2019 14:33     Subject: Virginia Tech gets 1,000 more freshman than last year
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I seem to remember that last year they had fewer admissions because they had over admitted the year before. Or something like that.


Our daughter goes to tack and I seem to recall them saying they had a few more thousand applicants this year than last but the number was not super significant. It didn’t seem like there were that many fewer applications for last year.


They had slightly fewer applications this year. 32,103 last year. A bit over 31,000 this year.

Anonymous
Post 05/06/2019 14:31     Subject: Virginia Tech gets 1,000 more freshman than last year
Anonymous wrote:It would be cheaper for universities to have rolling admissions than hire expensive consulting forms to screw up their admissions process.


I wish state schools would do ED. Rolling admission is tough. They can accept you in August, but don't have to hear back until May 1st. That can make it worse.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2019 14:27     Subject: Virginia Tech gets 1,000 more freshman than last year
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Purdue is accepting students who they previously denied. Enrollment management, anyone?


actually, they did a fine job. some years you should undershoot if you are doing it right. there's nothing to do about the random element.

better too few than too many.

I feel bad for the Tech engineering kids who stand even less of a chance of lasting until second year.


Are you serious? No. If you can't get enough kids from your over enrollment AND waitlist, you have a problem. Either that are they are not offering enough aid to those that want to go. But something has to change.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2019 14:27     Subject: Virginia Tech gets 1,000 more freshman than last year
It would be cheaper for universities to have rolling admissions than hire expensive consulting forms to screw up their admissions process.