Denied at almost every school...

floridadad55
Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:00:13 +0000

koch:

Sounds like you have had some bad luck.

College admissions, to some extent, is a numbers game, and the numbers did not break your way.

I had my son apply to 22 colleges, because I knew that with acceptance rates at the top colleges so low, you have to apply to a lot of them.

A female majoring in engineering should have had better results, but Virginia Tech is not exactly dog food.

It is still a good school.

Go there with a good attitude, and make the best of it.

That’s all you can do.

You can always try and transfer, if you truly don’t wind up liking it.

I did that, albeit 35 years ago. I went to SUNY Albany for 1 1/2 years, and then managed to transfer to Cornell.

But in my opinion, there is nothing wrong with Virginia Tech. In fact, for someone majoring in engineering, I would think that VT might even be a better choice than UVA or UNC.