My child is not applying.

I want to point out that the focus of VT is not just on admitting URM, it is URM and underserved students (First gen and low income). There are A LOT of first gen and low income white students, many of them males, in VA. Jus not NOVA.

https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/09/admissions-fall-census-2022.html

So much of what is being posted is unbelievably offensive.

The world is changing, and it is particularly hard on some as previous unfair advantages are taken away.

I am the parent of an UMC white girl with fairly high stats. Every one of the white males with relatively high stats with whiny entirely parents on this thread would be admitted over her at the SLACs she has applied to. That is life. She will go somewhere good and get a great education.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AMEN. The kid who is dedicated to engineering and/or CS and has VT as the top option in-state and who has worked hard for the past 12 years excelling in school and on standardized test but who gets shut out due to DEI (making the school 40% URM BS) or bc VT thinks it is their safety is who I am thinking of. These kids are the ones who will be hurt the most. VT is playing with social engineering with my tax dollars and I know plenty of people who refuse to even apply because of how they have handled admissions in the past few years.

40k + apps. Not a lock for anyone. Many kids with high stats and many qualified URMs. White male affirmative action is over.

What are you yammering about?

WL from VT, Good EC, Intern jobs, part time jobs. First time SAT 1550. On the other hand, UMD awarded the president's 40K scholarship, direct admit to CS major

GPA and rigor?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AMEN. The kid who is dedicated to engineering and/or CS and has VT as the top option in-state and who has worked hard for the past 12 years excelling in school and on standardized test but who gets shut out due to DEI (making the school 40% URM BS) or bc VT thinks it is their safety is who I am thinking of. These kids are the ones who will be hurt the most. VT is playing with social engineering with my tax dollars and I know plenty of people who refuse to even apply because of how they have handled admissions in the past few years.

40k + apps. Not a lock for anyone. Many kids with high stats and many qualified URMs. White male affirmative action is over.

47,000+ applications for a little more than 7,000 spots. I imagine around 14,000 offers, although I haven’t seen confirmation of *that* — going on what they expect their yield to be. But that works out to, what, a 33% acceptance rate?

Obviously varies by major.

Last year’s yield was 28%, so about 53% predicted acceptance rate.

Anonymous wrote:Please list stats — curious about the couple pps with sons and thought tech was a match and kids rejected.
I’ll be in this spot in a year.

Deferred with 4.0UW/4.5W/1570 and 13 APs or post-APs.

Anonymous wrote:DD In. College of Science, math major, physics minor

In state, FCPS

1490 SAT
4.3 W, not sure on unweighted. Probably around 3.8

7 APs, 2 in science, 3 in math
white

Congrats. Will she go?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AMEN. The kid who is dedicated to engineering and/or CS and has VT as the top option in-state and who has worked hard for the past 12 years excelling in school and on standardized test but who gets shut out due to DEI (making the school 40% URM BS) or bc VT thinks it is their safety is who I am thinking of. These kids are the ones who will be hurt the most. VT is playing with social engineering with my tax dollars and I know plenty of people who refuse to even apply because of how they have handled admissions in the past few years.

40k + apps. Not a lock for anyone. Many kids with high stats and many qualified URMs. White male affirmative action is over.

47,000+ applications for a little more than 7,000 spots. I imagine around 14,000 offers, although I haven’t seen confirmation of *that* — going on what they expect their yield to be. But that works out to, what, a 33% acceptance rate?

Obviously varies by major.

Please list stats — curious about the couple pps with sons and thought tech was a match and kids rejected.
I’ll be in this spot in a year.

Anonymous wrote:AMEN. The kid who is dedicated to engineering and/or CS and has VT as the top option in-state and who has worked hard for the past 12 years excelling in school and on standardized test but who gets shut out due to DEI (making the school 40% URM BS) or bc VT thinks it is their safety is who I am thinking of. These kids are the ones who will be hurt the most. VT is playing with social engineering with my tax dollars and I know plenty of people who refuse to even apply because of how they have handled admissions in the past few years.

40k + apps. Not a lock for anyone. Many kids with high stats and many qualified URMs. White male affirmative action is over.

DD In. College of Science, math major, physics minor

In state, FCPS

1490 SAT
4.3 W, not sure on unweighted. Probably around 3.8

7 APs, 2 in science, 3 in math
white

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tech was supposed to be a match for DS, but he was rejected. Anyone else in the same boat? Still waiting to hear from a few schools and accepted to a few, some with merit.

On the bright side, Blacksburg is remote and not near anywhere. I went there back in the day. Will be happy to have DS closer to home.

I’m sorry for your kid- but remote and not near anywhere? That was not true when DH and I went there in the 90s and it’s even more built up now!

I also went there in the ‘90’s. Tech is a great school and a fun place to be a student, but Blacksburg is far. It’s not close to any big job centers for internships and the like.

Anonymous wrote:Tech was supposed to be a match for DS, but he was rejected. Anyone else in the same boat? Still waiting to hear from a few schools and accepted to a few, some with merit.

On the bright side, Blacksburg is remote and not near anywhere. I went there back in the day. Will be happy to have DS closer to home.

DS too. really disappointing. and he's not happy.

Anonymous wrote:Tech was supposed to be a match for DS, but he was rejected. Anyone else in the same boat? Still waiting to hear from a few schools and accepted to a few, some with merit.

On the bright side, Blacksburg is remote and not near anywhere. I went there back in the day. Will be happy to have DS closer to home.

I’m sorry for your kid- but remote and not near anywhere? That was not true when DH and I went there in the 90s and it’s even more built up now!

Tech was supposed to be a match for DS, but he was rejected. Anyone else in the same boat? Still waiting to hear from a few schools and accepted to a few, some with merit.

On the bright side, Blacksburg is remote and not near anywhere. I went there back in the day. Will be happy to have DS closer to home.