Congrats to your daughter! VCU has one of the highest ranked arts programs in the country, so it’s a great place for her to land. My niece is a recent graduate (five years ago) and is working as an illustrator on animated films produced by both Netflix and Hulu. Good things are ahead for your daughter!
Thank you, MozartisBach! Your post came at the perfect time as my daughter got an email from VT yesterday declining her officially. She is taking it in stride and I believe it all works out how it’s supposed to.
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My son has the similar stats and got the same email yesterday. We just completed the housing contract last night and my son is heading to Ohio State with a pretty good merit scholarship
Good luck to all
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We got the same letter today. I’m honestly selfishly relieved to have certainty. He was accepted to JMU, which I have always thought was a PERFECT fit for him. We never should have put Engineering at Tech. He was also accepted at Stevens Institute of Technology, Penn State and Rochester Institute of Technology but committed to JMU because he likes the college town feel. So I’m leaning toward the OOS peeps always had a better chance than in state. Onward and upward! GO DUKES!
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The recent Naviance updates for my daughter’s Northern Virginia HS show the 2022 acceptance count (not rate) was similar to 2020 and 2021.
One thing you won’t see looking at Naviance is how many of the accepted students were waitlisted. On 5/5 only 26 had self-reported as “accepted”. On 5/18 that number is up to 62.
One NOVA school is a small imperfect sample, but I’d say something like 40% of the “accepted” came from the waitlist. Many of the waitlisted enrolled. If I were guessing, I’d say the 2026 class at VT is nearly full.
Applied Accepted Enrolled Acceptance Rate
2019-final: 101 91 38 90%
2020-final: 158 58 28 38%
2021-final: 214 60 22 28%
2022-5-5: 226 36 6 16%
2022-5-18: 226 62 30 27%
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Where do you find this in Navience?
It’s in the scattergrams under admissions
I’ve kept an eye on my kid’s naviance throughout the process. As best as I can tell VT took 12 kids ED, 5 regular. The total admitted jumped 3x since decision day and has sat at 37 admits and 16 enrolled. Last year they admitted twice that number. My DD was among the first to be pulled off the waitlist. She did a next steps virtual program with admissions office the week of May and they told her they would likely “call the class” in a couple of days. Sure enough, from that point on, rejection letters started going out. This was a brutal year for admissions and her school took a big hit. A lot of kids thought VT was their “back up” or safety school and lot of people she knew didn’t have other options they were happy with. That said, everything happens for a reason. Most of Virginia’s schools are excellent and these kids are bright and can excel ANYWHERE!
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Yeah, looking at recent acceptance rates, VT is probably not a safety school anymore. It has a good reputation, which is why my daughter made it her first choice. The acceptance rate at my daughters school is significantly lower than 2019. Currently it’s 71 accepted out of 226 applied with 35 enrolled. VT’s admissions department seems to be experiencing some challenges going to a test optional and CC application model. I think low acceptance rates are the new normal.