Anonymous wrote:UVA has a large global focus now; something like the Virginia summer school language immersion programs or foreign exchange student programs could make a difference. Schools always need band members every year.

I think you are correct. UVA DD did a summer study program at oxford set up by this office. https://engagement.virginia.edu/clubs/signature-initiatives/student-ambassadors. She later went on to do an MPhil in her own right at Oxford. UVA is the the top feeder of Rhodes Scholars in the U.s. after the Ivies. https://engagement.virginia.edu/clubs/signature-initiatives/student-ambassadors

UVA has a large global focus now; something like the Virginia summer school language immersion programs or foreign exchange student programs could make a difference. Schools always need band members every year.

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Anonymous wrote:VT is more pure numbers driven than UVA.

No, the current President is highly driven to make the school URM and first generation.google it.

We know - you keep repeating this. However, at least from our high school, these are not the kids who got in. They are among the top in their class, both academically and EC-wise, and none are first generation.

DP. No one single person is repeating anything. Timothy Sands's positions are well known. And many in the Commonwealth, administrators, legislators and parents feel that the ONLY polytech public University in the Commonwealth should be training the best and the brightest, not messing with social engineering or URMs and first generations. This is established news.

I completely agree with you, and feel the same way about TJ. However, what I'm saying is that the URM/1st generation claim certainly didn't apply to my kid's school. The kids headed to Tech are either white or Asian and not 1st gen.

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Again - the kids from our school who got in are not URM or first generation. I'm sure there are kids at other schools who are who also had the stats to get in, but none from our school. You don't know who actually got in and why. Please stop pretending you do.

According to College Factual, Va Tech is 64.5% White and 10.3% Asian. Its is 6.9% Hispanic and the number of black students is less than 5% (it's so small, there's no % reported). So once again, the numbers don't support the racist lie that only URM kids are getting admitted. If you doubt the numbers, get a cup of coffee at the cafeteria and confirm them yourself.

I think you misread my post or are responding to the wrong person. I pretty much said exactly what you did.

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Anonymous wrote:VT is more pure numbers driven than UVA.

No, the current President is highly driven to make the school URM and first generation.google it.

We know - you keep repeating this. However, at least from our high school, these are not the kids who got in. They are among the top in their class, both academically and EC-wise, and none are first generation.

DP. No one single person is repeating anything. Timothy Sands's positions are well known. And many in the Commonwealth, administrators, legislators and parents feel that the ONLY polytech public University in the Commonwealth should be training the best and the brightest, not messing with social engineering or URMs and first generations. This is established news.

NP, does make you wonder if engineering schools at Mason, VCU and ODU are benefitting as result.

I have close ties to one of those schools and serve on advisory committees. the answer is "most definitely!". A lot of MC and UMC Virginia parents really need the amazing Virginia public University system. They can't afford $81K a year for private, where most of them wind up after finishing the FAFSA. So getting in VT for engineering is really really important. And it is really really frustrating with those stellar students (like TJ) kids cannot get into their own polytech school. So when they get waitlisted, yes, they wind up at Mason (great engineering department), VCU (arts), and ODU. Of course, many overlook UVA because some idiot on here keeps saying its poor in engineering but I can attest from personal experience that the engineering department is amazing and that recent grads are doing Ph. D.s in electrical engineering at Princeton. W&M also has an xlnt computer school, often overlooked. in=state Virginians should apply far and wide to all the Virginia schools.