I’m not sure what you mean risk for new accepted students to be on or off campus?
All Freshman will be on-campus.
Forgot to mention, I was offered admittance into the honors college as well!
My son applied to 5 public schools that he thought he’d easily get into with VT being #1 amongst them, but then also applied to 3 private schools where if he gets in and the money was right, he’d want to go there (maybe) instead. So, he didn’t want to lock himself into VT 100%. That VT doesn’t take the best kids…even with the chance that they might not accept is absolutely ludicrous to me. Why not accept the top kids, wait-list the next level, and if the top kids don’t accept, you can pull from the wait-list. This notion that they don’t accept the top kids because they might not end up accepting is TERRIBLE. My son literally said, “so, basically, had I not done as well on my SAT or maybe gotten a few B’s, I would have been accepted.” What is VT teaching these kids? Be slightly better than mediocre, and you’re welcome here. If you’re Ivy League caliber, then we don’t want you.
Sorry, had to get that out there! Congratulations to everybody that got in…and remember, if you choose not to go to VT…please decline your offer, asap! 
Thank you
cbl1…
That, that, that… :-/
Last year one time news. Yes a few hundred students were at the holiday inn and many picked that locAtion for some of its advantages. You will not see that repeat this year so there is no worry with being off campus.
@mkms2020 The stats I posted were in reference to the EA decision pool only - not the overall number of total expected applications. To your other comment, there were only in the neighborhood of 150 students who took the gap year offer from last year so that has neglible impact on admissions decisions this time around.
Update. DS received a 5400 renewable scholarship, which brings VT within our budget.
May 1st decision day is right around the corner, and it will be interesting to see how things work out for DS. Colorado Boulder is his clear front runner, and we should find out next week if he is accepted and the cost works (not optimistic about merit levels though).
Beyond Colorado, his top contenders are VT, Clemson and Purdue, and I could see him happy at all of them. As parents, we are partial to VT because it is 4 hours closer to NJ, $4k/yr cheaper, has a happy vibe and is solid for engineering. The dark horses are Pitt (6k/yr less than VT) and UConn, which we will visit soon.
This is the 4th child we have taken through this long, stressful process. Luckily we have 6 years before our youngest starts looking to recover. I need a new hobby!
Best of luck to all in making your decisions and getting ready for college! Try to enjoy the remaining 5-6 months, because it flies by.
jdcollegedad-congrats to your son, but TMI. A lot of applicants waitlisted with comparable stats and may not have a lot of options esp if VT was their safety and logically so.
@ShenVal18 I wasn’t making any assumptions based on this thread or others, I was merely speculating to spidermom that some majors might be trying to balance out gender. Although I will say, some of the anecdotal posts in this thread are surprising in terms of who is waitlisted.
My understanding is that waitlist offers will happen after May 1, once everyone has made final decisions and schools have firmer numbers (someone correct me if they know otherwise). So unfortunately I don’t think that someone declining an offer immediately will result in another offer being given before then.
Generally, colleges track the numbers of students enrolling on a weekly (daily?) basis and compare to previous numbers. They will start going to the WL earlier than the May 1st firm numbers IF they see that it’s likely they will have spots. But given last year’s over enrollment, I’m sure they’ll be very careful this year.
The only way I see them hitting the WL earlier than May 1st is if they have so many declines that they “know”, not “think”, they’ll need more students. And I would think that this is college-based, so a big wave of COE declines might prompt COE to start pulling from the list.
This brings back memories of my younger son’s journey from many years ago. Instate, ED deferral, then waitlist . A real rollercoaster. Did not get off the waitlist until June 4th and by that time had gotten excited about his second choice school. He thought long and hard for a few days about making a switch to VT. He/we never thought he’d get off the waitlist and we all had mentally moved on. Be prepared for some possible hard decisions if you remain on the waitlist ( and also lost deposits at other schools if you accept a spot off the waitlist)…
I do feel particularly sorry for the instate kids that have posted with high stats and great EC’s that have gotten waitlisted . This is their state school and admissions in Virginia can be tough. Lots of high stats kids and many vying to get into our top schools like UVA, William and Mary, and Virginia Tech. Best of luck to all!
We are all here to share our good and bad. Everyone should be welcome to expand on their decision process.
If an organization/company has a strong historical profile of who will join them or purchase from them under certain specific conditions, that’s what they are going to follow. It cuts closest to the chase in terms of a purchase/conversion. You’re understandably disappointed, but the info you have shared kind of proves their point in a way - rather than go all-in with ED, the decision was to keep all options open. It’s possible that for remaining CoE spots after ED that there is a strong data profile for who will ultimately enroll. For an organization to ignore that would be silly. And stats comparison is a fools errand on this site due to sample size and not a single contributor knowing how a 4.3W in school system XYZ compares to a 3.5UW due to no weighting in school system 123.
Your student has great options available. I am a parent of a VT student who ended up there after being wait listed by their #1. Please be aware of and focus on their great alternatives, and I would encourage anyone posting to be aware of how stats comparison on a site visited by teens could diminish their sense of accomplishment. This is why “chance me” and “results” threads are useless… They. Do. Not. Prove. Anything.
@HokieCrazy since there is not a ranking of the WL, would you mind sharing which of the other public schools that your son has applied and been accepted to that he could most sees as new new favorite in case Tech doesn’t open up? Do you feel any of the Private’s are good match schools or were they all reaches and would he most likely choose Tech over them if he gets off of the waitlist?
My son has been accepted to Clemson and Penn State, so far. I think the private schools are likely a match, but their acceptance rates are so narrow that it feels like a roll of the dice and their price tags are so high. We’re headed down to Clemson to visit in a couple of weeks, so we’ll see where he lands on Clemson vs. Penn State. My gut tells me it’ll be a decision between a better program vs. a better cultural/campus life fit for him, and I don’t know where he’ll land with that.
We’ll see. The next few months will be interesting. Fingers crossed.
That’s good he has a couple of great choices. I don’t know much about Penn’s Merit aid but hopefully the Clemson merit takes out some of the sting even with the reduction. When will he know about the other 3?
Are they looking to even out the ratio of women to men ? Possibly
It’s good to know that your child was informed from the waitlist one month earlier than July 1st.