D accepted. NOVA. Pre-MED. Biochemistry.
UPDATE! Awesome IT folks! Got us in. My son accepted Engineering. Stats, OOS, 4.43 GPA W, SAT 1410, 9 APs, mostly 4âs, Eagle Scout, 11 years robotics, Leadership positions, and a job. A bizarre scholarship of $2375 a year⊠I mean thank you but itâs an odd amount.
Congrats to all! I think my DS may be the only one in the group that was denied. I wish I knew why, so frustrating. I know that the SRAR did not allow for standards based grading, so it looked like his grades were terrible because they show progress through high school not grades each semester. Maybe that was it? He goes to a STEM high school, 3.6 UW GPA, 1300 SAT, 29 ACT and many college level end classes. School doesnât rank or offer AP classes. Robotics team, varsity sports, volunteer at shelter and two family members that attend now or did. OOS from Maine and visited this fall. Bummer. I guess it wasnât meant to be!
I applied as a cadet⊠I was admitted but was I admitted as a cadet? Or am I going into the corps now? My admission decision didnât mention anything about it at all.
Admitted
OOS, 3.6 u/w GPA, 35 ACT
College of Engineering
very happy news
@rightyb Wow thatâs brutal. My son got waitlisted with practically the same stats (SAT1330). I never thought of 3.6 GPA as terrible - thatâs A- average for crying out loud. Wishing best of luck to your son, wherever he ends up.
Admitted - College of Engineering!
@victorbernstein @cbl1 Waitlist stats from last few years below. Information from the link attached. Maybe the yield on offers will continue in such a way that taking people off wait-list every other year will continueâŠ
https://www.ir.vt.edu/data/cds.html
2017-2018 WL Offers 3485, accepted 0
2016-2017 WL Offers 3588, 2405 stayed on WL, accepted 1697
2015-2016 WL Offers 2188, accepted 0
2014-2015 WL Offers 2294, 1580 stayed on WL, accepted 750
@bboop42 if the pattern continues, it would not work in our favor. Waitlist letter says in 2018 they offered 1896. Letâs hope the pattern doesnât continue so that they offer some off the waitlist. ?
Dad and son loved VT on 2 visits. Weâre happy to be admitted to Pamplin for business. But weâre frustrated about lack of any merit aid for son who is OOS. My son was admitted to similar large schools in other states and got some nice help with tuition. Weâre disappointed to get zero from VT which unfortunately will now be a factor in decision.
@lagdpg Well shoot, I did forget last year. Is it really 2019 already? I am still hoping with the new app process, etc. they have low yield and all will get offers from WL. Best of luck to you. Hang in there.
@jimmym I agree. U of Iowa Tippie School is Business is significantly higher ranked than VT and offers LOTS of money. We live in Colorado and in state is pretty expensive for CU. My son applied RD to VT but we arenât expecting to get much if any aid if heâs accepted. Our main reason for applying is I loved going there and we have tons of family in Roanoke.
No, I believe it is an automatic application to honors. He didnât do anything specific to get in. Interestingly enough, he researched the program and decided to not accept his honors college invite. I let him make the choice. He was worried about the stress since he will be in engineering.
Engineering > Honors
â@bboop42 if the pattern continues, it would not work in our favor. Waitlist letter says in 2018 they offered 1896. Letâs hope the pattern doesnât continue so that they offer some off the waitlist. ?l
Some kids got accepted from the waitlist last year.
They started relying more on putting people on waitlist last year and Iâm sure it continued this year so that they donât run into trouble they had 2 years ago with too many people accepting. I imagine a lot of people are going to get off the waitlist - just frustrating for those people having to wait (and in many cases commit elsewhere).
2018 waitlist thread
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/virginia-tech/2061699-virginia-tech-freshmen-2018-waitlist.html
@PhilipM Sorry about that, I forgot we are already in the 2018-2019 yearâŠfingers crossed for all.
Bboop42 No apologies necessary.
The waitlist chances are hard to predict since whether anyone gets in is a function of the yield rate â how many accepted kids actually chose to attend, which is variable from year to year. Looking at the data,
https://irweb.ir.vt.edu/webtest/admission_data.aspx
yield rate last year was lowerâŠonly 30%⊠than the historic norm of 35-38%, so that explains why kids got in from the waitlist last year. But generally yield rate fluctuates . So whether anyone is accepted this year is hard to predict because yield rate is variable from year to year. It also depends on what expected yield rate VT used to make acceptance decisons. If they used historic norms, and low yield continues, then more kids will get in off the waitlist. But if they used a lower yield rate based on last year but then see a return to previous norm of 35+%, then fewer kids will get in from the waitlist.
A side note, there is misunderstanding of what happened two years ago, when VT dorms were over filled, as being result of an unusually high yield rate. Thats not true, yield rate two years ago was consistent with previous years but two years ago, VT did not adjust acceptance rate to reflect a large uptic in applicants. So they accepted more kids because they had mor applicants, then got consistent yield rate, and wound up with too many students. So last year they adjusted acceptance rate downward, put more on waitlist, and got a lower yield. I imagine this year, they will seek to split the difference and some kids will get in from waitlist but perhaps fewer than did last year.
Good explanation Phillip
@philipm Thanks, time just keeps getting away from me. Great summary and agree 100% predicting WL chances is like predicting admission chance or it seems the weather these daysâŠnext to impossible. Have a great weekend. Good luck to all.