From College Talk FB group - someone was accepted from waitlist for biomedical engineering (OOS I believe).
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Which state were they from?
Hearing there may be a few internationals who were admitted from the WL.
I am an international that was accepted off of the waitlist for general engineering with an interest in computer engineering last week.
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Congratulations and happy for you. Im surprised international students make up 10 percent of the student body when good Virginia kids canāt get inā¦ How does it fit their mission?
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There are lots of schools with 10% international students, this is completely normal and honestly fair in my opinion. If the number was closer to 20% then I would say thatās a bit high.
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I agree it adds diversity and Iām all for that ā but 5 percent would be reasonable to achieve international diversity ā I can understand private universities being 10 percent but if you read Virginia tech mission statement it focuses on education of Virginia residents so itās not fully aligned
Congratulations.
I guess good Virginia students have to look outside Virginia for a selective school comparable to VT and pay more than they would in state.
Yepā¦thatās what weāre doing. Weāre in at several peer schools but out of state. The system doesnāt make sense.
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Or go to community college for two years to get into the Virginia school that they shouldāve gotten into out of high school.
I canāt watch my kid work so hard to finish with such strong credentials and send him to community college. Glad that is a pathway for some but itās not a good path for kids with a 4.3 gpa etc
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Virginia, back in the late 1990s mandated an increase in state college enrollment capacity to meet population growth. Maybe that needs to happen again. Good luck to your kid. I understand your frustration.
If youāre looking for top 50 engineering options, I think you can still apply to Iowa State and hear back immediately. Iām not shilling for ISU, Iām just aware because itās a college where S24 applied.
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VT seems to be especially confusing and even jaw-dropping this year. The kids we know who been waitlisted and denied versus the kids who were accepted vary incredibly. Some of the absolute highest achieving kids were waitlisted and lower achieving less well rounded were accepted. Perhaps it has to do with a niche major, or geographic diversity, but it is far the strangest year!
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It could also be to protect yield. The assumption is that the higher-credentialed kids will get into higher-ranked schools and in a head-to-head they will accept those other options. Since yield (the number of kids to enroll after being accepted) is factored into school rank, it is a factor. Unfortunately, in this cycle so many of those yield rejection kids also did not get into those higher-ranked schools or are waitlisted in those schools because of the volume of applicants (which has increased because of the same unpredictability of the last few years). It is a self defeating cycle and the kids are the one being hurt while the schools are $$$$ in all of the application fees. (Stepping off my soapbox.)
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This!
VT provides a very useful tool to better understand application/acceptance/yield rates by the different schools and programs. Just saying āthat lower stat kid got in and my high stat kid didnātā doesnāt mean anything without the context of what program and what did their essays look like (VT is big on their āwhy VTā essays). Like any other school they are also looking to fill certain demographic criteria (male/female, IS/OOS, etc). Itās certainly a disappointment when a school the student believes is a great fit and a target academically waitlists or rejects but comparing to other kids and their merits, or not, seems like wasted emotion.
Agree Speer. 4.3, 1560 SAT, Eagle Scout, NASA HUNCH national finalist, AP Scholar Award, course rigorā¦no offense NVCC, heāll go to Purdue for Aerospace Engineering and weāll help Indianaās economy instead of Virginiaās. In those first two years heād be at NOVA, hopefully heāll pick up an internship and assist a professor with research.
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Can you point me in the direction of that tool? I would love to figure out if VT is a target or a reach for my S25, who is OOS and wants to enter the engineering program because he felt it was such a good fit on our visit. Thanks!
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This might be of some help.
https://udc.vt.edu/irdata/data/students/admission/index#college
For my D24ās demographic, acceptance rates in recent years were as low as 20% and as high as 88%ā¦major makes a huge difference!
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Holy fright, it is super helpful to have this data at my fingertips. Thank you so much @bronzerfish !!!
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