Anonymous
02/05/2024 08:46
Subject: VT waitlisted
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Fcps 4.1 and 1380 sat here. Waitlisted for tech.
Things that didn’t help:
One of the top fcps schools
Not urm
Not first Gen
Male applying to business school
Otherwise everting else fit. Varsity sports captain, 8 APs and everything else honors.
Will people stop blaming URM for getting denied? Colleges can't take race/ethnicity into account in admissions decisions anymore. I'm sorry your kid didn't get in but it's not because he's a white male
Yep ^
Anonymous
02/05/2024 08:45
Subject: VT waitlisted
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Fcps 4.1 and 1380 sat here. Waitlisted for tech.
Things that didn’t help:
One of the top fcps schools
Not urm
Not first Gen
Male applying to business school
Otherwise everting else fit. Varsity sports captain, 8 APs and everything else honors.
These are not the reasons your kid didn't get in. Plenty of white, UMC students from top FCPS high schools are accepted to all majors, including business and engineering. Your kid was simply in competition with all of them.
Yep ^
Anonymous
02/05/2024 08:40
Subject: VT waitlisted
Anonymous wrote:They absolutely do value service...and place significant importance on the answers to their short essay questions. I think this is where quite a few high stat kids stumble. Those questions are hard to answer well in such a short space. My DD told me off hand who of her friends were just "phoning it in" with their answers months ago, with several mentioning how dumb they felt the questions were. Well, surprise, literally all of those high stats kids are now waitlisted or declined. I think with so many high stat kids coming out of FCPS, things like significant service and thoughtful answers to their 4 questions can make a big difference.
My DC surprised us and was admitted with lowest quartile stats. Short answer questions reflected who they are (strong values yet sounded like a 17-year old kid wrote it) and must have made the difference.
Anonymous
02/05/2024 08:31
Subject: VT waitlisted
Anonymous wrote:Fcps 4.1 and 1380 sat here. Waitlisted for tech.
Things that didn’t help:
One of the top fcps schools
Not urm
Not first Gen
Male applying to business school
Otherwise everting else fit. Varsity sports captain, 8 APs and everything else honors.
Engineering or another major? I feel like technology majors have a completely different criteria to meet from other majors there but maybe I'm off on this.
Anonymous
02/05/2024 08:15
Subject: VT waitlisted
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Fcps 4.1 and 1380 sat here. Waitlisted for tech.
Things that didn’t help:
One of the top fcps schools
Not urm
Not first Gen
Male applying to business school
Otherwise everting else fit. Varsity sports captain, 8 APs and everything else honors.
I think the question is did kids with lower stats than this get in? When we did the VT tour, they told us that GPA and rigor were the two most important considerations.
I know a white male from FCPS with high SAT and GPA, but only medium rigor (maybe 6 APs, math ending in AP stats and Calc AB, no English APs) but was Eagle Scout and involved in his church-in for CS. So who knows, maybe they like service.
They are 100% clear that they highly value service. It's the school motto!
Anonymous
02/05/2024 08:05
Subject: VT waitlisted
They absolutely do value service...and place significant importance on the answers to their short essay questions. I think this is where quite a few high stat kids stumble. Those questions are hard to answer well in such a short space. My DD told me off hand who of her friends were just "phoning it in" with their answers months ago, with several mentioning how dumb they felt the questions were. Well, surprise, literally all of those high stats kids are now waitlisted or declined. I think with so many high stat kids coming out of FCPS, things like significant service and thoughtful answers to their 4 questions can make a big difference.
Anonymous
02/05/2024 07:59
Subject: VT waitlisted
Anonymous wrote:Fcps 4.1 and 1380 sat here. Waitlisted for tech.
Things that didn’t help:
One of the top fcps schools
Not urm
Not first Gen
Male applying to business school
Otherwise everting else fit. Varsity sports captain, 8 APs and everything else honors.
Will people stop blaming URM for getting denied? Colleges can't take race/ethnicity into account in admissions decisions anymore. I'm sorry your kid didn't get in but it's not because he's a white male
Anonymous
02/05/2024 07:53
Subject: VT waitlisted
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Fcps 4.1 and 1380 sat here. Waitlisted for tech.
Things that didn’t help:
One of the top fcps schools
Not urm
Not first Gen
Male applying to business school
Otherwise everting else fit. Varsity sports captain, 8 APs and everything else honors.
I think the question is did kids with lower stats than this get in? When we did the VT tour, they told us that GPA and rigor were the two most important considerations.
I know a white male from FCPS with high SAT and GPA, but only medium rigor (maybe 6 APs, math ending in AP stats and Calc AB, no English APs) but was Eagle Scout and involved in his church-in for CS. So who knows, maybe they like service.
Anonymous
02/05/2024 07:52
Subject: VT waitlisted
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Fcps 4.1 and 1380 sat here. Waitlisted for tech.
Things that didn’t help:
One of the top fcps schools
Not urm
Not first Gen
Male applying to business school
Otherwise everting else fit. Varsity sports captain, 8 APs and everything else honors.
I think the question is did kids with lower stats than this get in? When we did the VT tour, they told us that GPA and rigor were the two most important considerations.
We took the tour there too and while they, like almost every other school, say that grades and rigor are most important, they said their approach is holistic. They look at a lot of factors. They emphasized community service more than some schools. They never promise to admit kids based SOLELY on grades and rigor. None of them do.
Anonymous
02/05/2024 07:50
Subject: VT waitlisted
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't mean to be rude at all, but you can't be surprised by 3.5 being waitlisted at VT.
+1. SCHEV reports that the profile of last year's VT class had a 4.33/4.20/3.86 for the 75th/50th/25th percentiles.
Median was 4.10, not 4.20.
Anonymous
02/05/2024 07:48
Subject: VT waitlisted
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Fcps 4.1 and 1380 sat here. Waitlisted for tech.
Things that didn’t help:
One of the top fcps schools
Not urm
Not first Gen
Male applying to business school
Otherwise everting else fit. Varsity sports captain, 8 APs and everything else honors.
I think the question is did kids with lower stats than this get in? When we did the VT tour, they told us that GPA and rigor were the two most important considerations.
Anonymous
02/05/2024 07:29
Subject: VT waitlisted
Anonymous wrote:The President of Virginia Tech wants 40 percent of incoming kids to be first generation. It is what it is. This leaves a lot of great kids not getting in. The President of UVA is on the same path.
stop, just stop.
Anonymous
02/05/2024 07:11
Subject: VT waitlisted
The President of Virginia Tech wants 40 percent of incoming kids to be first generation. It is what it is. This leaves a lot of great kids not getting in. The President of UVA is on the same path.
Anonymous
02/05/2024 07:11
Subject: VT waitlisted
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Fcps 4.1 and 1380 sat here. Waitlisted for tech.
Things that didn’t help:
One of the top fcps schools
Not urm
Not first Gen
Male applying to business school
Otherwise everting else fit. Varsity sports captain, 8 APs and everything else honors.
The grievance attitude.
Stats are mediocre.
I don’t think it’s a “grievance attitude” to point out factors that are expressly stated as part of the criteria for getting in. VT has said they have a goal of having 40% first Gen students. No other VA college has that publicly stated. That did not help my kid.
https://news.vt.edu/articles/2022/09/admissions-fall-census-2022.html
And a 4.1 and a 1380 are not mediocre and they are above the 50th percentile of VT.
I’m not saying I don’t understand the waitlist, but he definitely had a shot to being accepted.
The overall university average is pretty meaningless. It's going to vary widely by major
Anonymous
02/05/2024 07:10
Subject: VT waitlisted
The President of Virginia Tech wants 40 percent of incoming kids to be first generation. It is what it is. This leaves a lot of great kids not getting in.