***OFFICIAL***Decisions Thread 2010

Colleges and Universities A-Z Virginia Tech
101

<p>Decision: Accepted!Major-animal science</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT Verbal: 520

  • SAT Math: 490
  • SAT Writing: 520
  • SAT Total: 1530
  • SAT II: 440 Math 1, 550 Biology
  • AP/IB taken/scores: none
  • GPA weighted: 3.1
    *Rank or % estimate: 14/120
    </code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Essays: awesome

  • Teacher Recs: awesome
  • Hook (if any): alot of EC’s related to my major i guess
    </code></pre>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<pre><code>* State or Country: Pennsylvania

  • School Type: Public
  • Ethnicity: Black
  • Gender: Female
  • Legacy Yes/No: No
  • Recruited Yes/No: No
  • Important ECs: dont feel like listing
  • Deferred Yes/No: No
    </code></pre>

<p>YAYYYY IM Happyyy!!!</p>

102

<p>**Decision: **</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 690
[</em>] SAT Math: 530
[<em>] SAT Writing: 690
[</em>] SAT Total: 1910
[<em>] SAT II: 610 Spanish. 730 World History.
[</em>] ACT: 28 Composite
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: World History (5), English Language (4).
[</em>] GPA weighted: 3.93
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 3.57
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: top 25%</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Basically copied and pasted from other apps. But they were fine.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Didn’t see, but presumably good.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Didn’t see.
[</em>] Hook (if any): Girl? OOS? Internship?</p>

<p>[/ul] Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: MD
[</em>] School Type: Competitive Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White.
[</em>] Gender: F.
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: Noope
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: Noope again.
[<em>] Important ECs: Internship at NIH, band, girl scouts, running.
[</em>] Deferred Yes/No: N.</p>

<p>[/ul]Other Factors:</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
Wanted to get Honors, but I guess I’m not really qualified enough! I guess that’s life. Probably won’t go because I can’t afford it but… hey. Definitely one of my top choices and probably would attend if I had in-state tuition. Nevertheless, very excited!</p>

103

<p>Decision: Denied/ Engineering</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT Verbal: 650</li>
<li>SAT Math: 750</li>
<li>SAT Writing: 560</li>
<li>SAT Total: 1960</li>
<li>SAT II: 690 Math 2, 620 Physics</li>
<li>AP/IB taken/scores:Euro-3, Am. History-3, Calc AB-4, currently taking calc bc, english, spanish, physics B, gov</li>
<li>GPA weighted: 3.6
*Rank or % estimate: 100/560</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: idk, but essays aren’t my strength</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: didn’t know we had to submit one</li>
<li><p>Hook (if any): apparently i don’t have any
Location/Person:</p></li>
<li><p>State or Country: Northern VA</p></li>
<li><p>School Type: Public</p></li>
<li><p>Ethnicity: HIspanic</p></li>
<li><p>Gender: Male</p></li>
<li><p>Legacy Yes/No: No</p></li>
<li><p>Recruited Yes/No: No</p></li>
<li><p>Important ECs: MUN, Spanish, Music, A World of Difference</p></li>
<li><p>Deferred Yes/No: No</p></li>
</ul>

104

<p>It upsets me that people with lower GPAs, no APs, and lower SAT/ACT scores got in but I didn’t. Especially because I’m in state and they’re not. I thought this was supposed to improve chances, why are they being lowered?</p>

<p>I was waitlisted with a 3.4 GPA, universal studies, instate, 28 ACT, 4 honors, etc. </p>

<p>:( I’m very sad right now.</p>

105

<p>Purple, I am sorry you were waitlisted, but I need to ask were the honors AP’s or IB’s? Was your gpa 3.4 UW or W? </p>

<p>I will admit seeing 1010 with a 3.1 could be frustrating, but they are OOS. Apples and oranges.</p>

<p>Remember waitlisting is not the end, there still is a chance, HOLD ON.</p>

106

<p>Wait, sike. I forgot. I didn’t submit my teacher recs / counselors recs since Tech doesn’t want them. I also applied as History major which could’ve been a minor hook & definitely easier than Engineering or Architecture.</p>

<p>I’m taking AP Environmental, AP English Lit, and AP Comparative Politics this year too.</p>

107

<p>I disagree, considering from what I’ve heard most years 0 applicants have been taken from the waitlist. </p>

<p>My GPA was unweighted. I went from a 3.0 freshman, 3.3 sophomore, 3.6 junior, and 4.0 senior so I felt as if the upward trend would help some. I also had some family issues that I really felt gave me a hook when I wrote about them in my essay, and great ECs. How come OOS can get in with such lower standards? Its ridiculously frustrating :&lt;/p>

108

<p>Also - Is there any idea on how many students are waitlisted each year? I feel like I’d have more of a chance if it was around 500 rather than something like 5,000.</p>

109

<p>ACCEPTED!</p>

<p>No email went through the VATECH site using CAS.</p>

<p>IS
4.17w gpa
Cambridge Program
1290 out of 1600 SAT
Sociology major</p>

110

<p>is it significantly harder to get into engineerring?</p>

<p>would a 3.4 GPA UW, 2200 SAT and 10AP classes and 5 honor classes cut it?</p>

111

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<p>I got into engineering with 3.33 UW GPA, 1910 SAT, with less AP and honors (not counting senior year).</p>

112

<p>so i just got the email… not going to lie if i didn’t know i was in, i probably would thought I was rejected. so ominous and basic. lol.</p>

113

<p>exe163 are you a legacy because i got rejected with a 3.5 uw and 1960 sat plus 9 ap courses</p>

114

<p>Rick, I am a OOSer from CA. My family nor I have ever been to Virginia. I will have 11 APs and a honor here and there by the time I graduate. Maybe I just got lucky though I did get into schools with similar acceptance rate (UIUC and Purdue).</p>

<p>Hope this helps.</p>

<p>P.S. base on your stats, you should be in. File a appeal if VT is your first choice.</p>

115

<p>Yeah, I’ve been told i should file an appeal. Though it says online an appeal will only be reviewed if there was any info left off of the original app and that an appeal will not considered if i’m only looking for a second opinion.</p>

116

<p>Decision: Accepted/Engineering</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT Verbal: 580</li>
<li>SAT Math: 640</li>
<li>SAT Writing: 610</li>
<li>SAT Total: 1830</li>
<li>AP taken/scores:World Hist-4, US History-5, currently taking govt, calc AB, lang, chem, economics</li>
<li>GPA weighted: 3.96
*Rank or % estimate: 39/401</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: well-written (not much peer editing though)</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Very good</li>
<li>Hook (if any): what?</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:

  • State or Country: Northern VA
  • School Type: Public
  • Ethnicity: Asian
  • Gender: Male
  • Legacy Yes/No: No
  • Recruited Yes/No: No
  • Important ECs: Travel soccer, and clubs like NHS, FBLA, etc.
  • Deferred Yes/No: No</p>
117

<p>[ size=+1][ color=green][ b]Decision: ACCEPTED![ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT Verbal: 530
[ *] SAT Math: 630
[ *] SAT Writing: 510
[ *] SAT Total: 1670
[ *] SAT II: None
[ *] ACT: 31
[ *] AP/IB/DE taken/scores: US History, English 11, US/Comparative Government, Environmental Science, English 12, Biology
[ *] GPA weighted: 3.77
[ *] GPA unweighted: ?
[ *] Rank or % estimate: 72 out of 405</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: Great
[ *] Teacher Recs: None
[ *] Counselor Rec: ?
[ *] Hook (if any): None</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: Fredericksburg, VA
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: White
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] Legacy Yes/No: No
[ *] Recruited Yes/No: No
[ *] Important ECs: SCA, Key Club, Swim Team, NHS, Mission Trips, Youth in Philanthropy
[ *] Deferred Yes/No: Yes</p>

<p>[ b]<em>FOR DEFEREES</em> IF accepted, reasons why you think so, actions you took after being deferred, etc…: Got Straight A’s in first semester to bump my GPA up a good amount.[ /b]</p>

118

<p>Rick, are you from Northern Virginia? It’s harder to get in from NoVa than anywhere else.</p>

119

<p>Yeah, I am. I’m from the county that changed its grading scale, but not retroactively. And when I looked on the transcript it had the new scale listed, but no mention of the fact that previous grades weren’t changed. Plus the grades aren’t listed by number, only letters.</p>

120

<p>You might just possibly have a case then. Try to get your highschool to contact the school saying that the grades were reported incorrectly. It’s very important that you stress that something was incorrect on the transcript/application.</p>