If you fill out the FAFSA schools can see what number they are on the list. I don’t know if they can see the other colleges names. But they do know if they were # 1 or #8. I guess they assume people place on lots in order of preference not alphabetically.
I thought 70% of kids at UVA had to be VA students by legislative fiat?
Chemistry? Or Chemical Engineering? COE is harder.
@maddy23 I dont know if it by law or just University policy, but UVA maintains a 2/3-1/3 IS-OOS ratio. Which isn’t to say 2/3 of the kids they accept are IS. They actually accept more OOS kids than IS kids, but they get a ton more OOS applicants so the admit rate is lower. Also, the OOS enroll rate for admitted kids is a lot lower so that informs how many OOS kids need to be admitted to maintain the 1/3 ratio.
VT’s regular decision app deadline of December 1 has always been problematic. It’s one of the earliest RD deadlines in the country. I think that they have listened to their constituents and appropriately moved the deadline to mid-January, like many other schools. Hopefully it stays this way.
Unfortunately, they made this year’s decision in the middle of the process - this was poor planning. The decision had the positive effect of giving some kids a second thought/chance, while having the negative effect of making those who applied on time feel slighted.
@STEM2017 The last few years VT’s RD deadline has been in January. This year the decision was moved to December and then back to January. Per the admissions office, many guidence/college councelors were not aware of the change to December. This is part of the reason it was changed back to January.
Right there with you, 26622662. Our daughter had similar credentials (1480 GPA, 3.9 GPA, 8 AP, 12 Honors classes, competitive in two sports, heavily involved in League for one sport, many awards…). She applied to Pamplin and was waitlisted. The day after being waitlisted, she received an email indicating she had been accepted. We spoke with a lady in Admissions who apologized for the errant “acceptance” email. She looked over DD’s application and voiced two concerns: 1.) Her SAT was too high, students with that score are usually not really interested in VT (???), and 2.) She had not taken a tour of VT. Our older daughter is a VT Junior - we are frequently there with our younger daughter (she toured with older daughter when older daughter was a HS Senior). Just a little dumbfounded at the rationale. VT is her first choice by far. So she has a decision to make this month - she has narrowed it down to two other Virginia schools while we hope for the best from VT.
@Kpanther What were your other stats…gpa, SAT, etc? My son will be applying next year and I assumed he would get in, but reading these other comments, I’m not so sure now.
@thessaly1 I had a 4.05 gpa weighted, 1230 SAT (650 math, 580 English), I had 13 honors classes, 7 AP classes, 6 college classes, I had really good essays and good extra curriculars (clubs and a varsity sport this year). My SAT was a bit low but everything else made up for it. With these stats I got deferred early decision then accepted regular decision and got invited to the honors college. Stats aren’t everything but make sure your son is in a certain range and have other things make up for it. I visited and emailed them an application processes too
I had a 1440 (720 Math, 720 English) with a 4.25 GPA and got accepted into VT General Engineering (instate Asian male btw). I had also taken Computer Science courses for all 4 years of high school, and had taken Calculus BC and Physics 1 junior year and gotten a 4 on both exams. Senior year I was taking Dual Enrollment Biology and AP Chemistry as well, but overall this year seemed very random for a lot of college admissions, with a lot of my peers getting rejected from VT which a lot of people considered a safety school. Don’t worry too much about the waitlist though, if you’re an Virginia resident you have a lot of great public schools to choose from.
If VT is your first choice, go binding. If you are deferred, you still have a better chance of acceptance than someone that has similar stats that applies RD because VT knows you made them their first choice when you originally applied. I hate to say it, but rankings matter (even if they are artificial) so schools are playing the yield game.