My daughter will be an OOS student at Virginia Tech this fall. Her major is not offered in our home state of Maryland. Awesome, except that Virginia Tech does not participate in the Academic Common Market. She was thinking of trying to write them a letter/call them to ask if they ever make exceptions and would participate for certain majors. I was just wondering if anyone has ever tried this and if so, what were the results? It would be sooooo nice if it could be simple- but I guess that’s hardly ever the case!
Don’t waste your time. If VA Tech doesn’t participate, they are NOT going to make an exception for your kid.
She knew when she applied that VA Tech didn’t participate in this ACM, right?
We totally knew, she will still be attending. We actually didn’t even find out about it until recently. We just thought we’d try, but if they say no she is still going there.
Certain schools participate in certain tuition exchange programs, but if they don’t, they don’t. You see this with tuition exchange for faculty/staff too.
For the Western exchange, the schools set their own rules. Some have unlimited number of students in the program, take transfer students, accept the students for all majors. Others have very limited acceptance, don’t allow transfers, limit the majors available.