He applied early action & received an email a few days ago from VT that his decision would be available on 2/22.
@xytimes3 Tell him to log out of his guest account, clear his web cache, and then login again. Sounds simplistic, but there is always a chance that his ISP has locked up on a cached page.
@ShenVal18 - mystery solved! He didnāt set up his VT account until today. So heāll have to wait for it in the mail.
Any opinion on changing application status to āCadetsā which might raise the chance on getting off waitlist if there are spots open in May? DS has been accepted to Penn State, Pitt & Rutgers (biology major) but VT is his top choice since we are in state.
@PLO2020 Iām not sure how you would make a change to the application yourself - those requests have pretty strict guidelines and have to be submitted to admissions. Since a decision has technically been rendered then the app could likely be considered complete as-is. On another note, how likely would it be for admissions to see such a request as an attempt to game the system? Admissions also has a pretty strict view of applicants who apply for the Corps (using it as an advantage to admission) who then request a change to civilian status after admission.
Iām curious about something though - thereās been a fair share of posts leading up to and after EA results saying VT was the studentās top choice. What made your son decide against applying ED?
It might link up online sooner than that, once the guest account has been established.
It looks like the boys with higher stats lost out to the girls with lower ones. At least from the posts Iāve seen.
@sandywerks wow you have 2 smart kids. I am sure whatever your son decides will ve the right thing for him . I agree though with the OOS . Unless you have a big scholarship or it is comparable to another school you have on your radar, the extra money either the parents spend or the kids take out in a loan may not be worth it. Especially when you have 2 in college at the same exact time. Good luck to your kids
@ShenVal18 - Son was late to start his VT application process and missed out ED deadline.
I am legitimately shocked right now.
Female, OOS, 1390 SAT, 3.84 UW GPA, 4.6 W GPA, strong extracurriculars, volunteer work, & internships.
Waitlisted.
Even after I was directly told, in person, by my admissions officer in the fall that I should be expecting an acceptance. Very disappointing to say the least.
Davenport scholarship notification emails were sent out this morning. My D was not successful but proud she got to final 450 out of 3000+ applicants. She has been accepted with a 3K merit award so she is happy anyway.
Now have a tough final choice as has 3 more decisions waiting - UMass @ Amherst, CWRU and Vanderbilt. Accepted into UMD, Rutgers, Purdue, RIT, VT, WPI and U of Delaware. Top in the consideration right now is Purdue, WPI and next VT but going to a few accepted students days to try and narrow the decision some more.
@Spidermom67 Gender might be a factor for majors in which one gender is underrepresented, so you might be seeing that for engineering?
What type of admissions officer - from VT or your High School?
@cbl1 VT. I talked to the one for my region after a campus tour I went on.
If they said that to you ā¦ I would contact that person as maybe they can have reviewed.
@Spidermom67 @rbc2018 Why chance me and results threads are so misleading/confusing:
Took a few minutes, but I scrolled through and jotted down these figures:
It looks like there have been approx. 90 total unique user results posted for EA (there are duplicates between this thread and the full discussion thread). Unknown gender results are 2x those of either male or female. There are approx. 4 more female acceptedās vs. male, and 4 more wait-lists for males vs. females. A statistical dead heat, in a cohort of data that represents less than 1/2 of 1% of the anticipated total number of EA applications/results received (20,000+ if you assume 2020 is like 2019).
@ShenVal18 cohort of data that represents less than 1/2 of 1% of the anticipated total number of EA applications/results received (20,000+ if you assume 2020 is like 2019).
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According to the letter they sent there were 31,000 applications received for 2020! Even larger than 2019.
Perhaps part of the reason they are accepting less students this year due to the fact that they accepted too many student last fall. They offered financial incentives to students who delay their acceptance by a semester or year. I would assume that they might have accepted less students in order to prevent this same phenomenon, and leave space for the students from last cycle who accepted the financial incentive and will be attending this fall.
I think they are trying not to over admit. But I donāt think you will see them lowering the class size from where they wanted to be last year.
I would expect final accepted students close to 6900. Over 700 less then last year but 600 more than 2018.
Well said. Although there are some risks for new accepted students to be on and/or off campus at VT. It would be bad for the first year students randomly. Tough luck.