Our high school is now saying that for the VA Advanced Studies Diploma, the students now need two sequential (it used to be one) Fine Arts or Career and Technical Ed classes. My child had a tentative high school plan mapped out last year, and this is going to prevent him/her from taking an AP class s/he wanted to take. Does VT look at whether the students received an Advanced Studies Diploma, or is course rigor more important?
Not according to their website - 1 needed only. Sounds like some miscommunication from the high school.
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/instruction/graduation/advanced_studies.shtml
AP wise - looks like AP Computer Science would count as Art/Tech according to their website as well.
With the addition of the Early Action option, do you anticipate a significant number of spots available for those that applied regular decision and meet the acceptance requirements?
When we did tour in the fall they highly recommended early action. Saying that regular admission will be just to fill in leftover gaps.
@VTAdmissions - I was hoping you could explain why some applicants have a section regarding honors information at the bottom of their portal page and others do not. I
Alright Tech… let’s hear it. Release the news! Come on. We can’t take it any more
We didn’t go to college visit. I was accepted into engineering. Only thing is you don’t know if you will be accepted into choice of your specialization. For example if you want Electrical or CS or mechanical, you don’t know until 2nd year. That way UMD Rutgers UIUC etc are better options IMHO
@cshigh If you finish your freshman year with a 3.0 GPA or higher, you are guaranteed your choice of engineering major.
If your GPA is lower than 3.0, it’s based on availability.
@VTAdmissions I have three simple questions:
- What is the TOTAL number of applicants that are/will be offered a wait list option. Rough number is fine (500, 3000, etc.)
- Are there separate pools of waitlisted applicants (one for each college, major, etc). Would make sense, since the competitiveness varies greatly between colleges, no?
- If the wait list is not ranked, exactly how are the applications selected from the pool, if and when the time comes? Really want to believe it is NOT completely random.
Can someone help me out here? The decisions that came out yesterday or today, were they for EA or for RD? My son got admitted to Engineering, and I am wondering why so early, since he, I think, didn’t apply EA?
They were for EA. RD decisions come out March 5th! 
@ElenaParent
@ElenaParent They were EA (Early Action) - not to be confused with ED (Early Decision - binding). Maybe he had his RD application in prior to the EA date and they just put him in with the EA.
@genesmasher Hard to say on Waitlist numbers - but if you go by prior years they probably waitlist about 3500, of which about 2500 stay on waitlist, by which maybe 60%-70% eventually get accepted. But there have been years where much less came off. It all depends on how many accept. If their yield is less than expected more will come off. If their yield is higher you could have very few off.
I would just plan on better than 50/50 chance of getting off (and really you can probably tell if you are in that 50% from your GPA and SAT numbers as to if you on boarderline or not).
I see your student as like 1350SAT and 3.6 GPA (is that weighted or unweighted). Those probably for engineering may not make the cut. If the 3.6 GPA is unweighted then your probably in the upper half of waitlist.
My Son accepted to Virginia Tech officially online. #VT23
@cbl1 I understand the odds and appreciate the feedback, but I was really hoping to hear a reply to my specific questions directly from @VTAdmissions. Hopefully Monday. Being on the wait list by definition assumes the applicant is borderline. However, if/when they start taking kids off the list this year, the process is far from clear cut to me.
I have other questions too. What is the number of EA vs RD applicants? How many accepted spots were allocated to EA? What percentage of the wait list is from RD? This year must be a mess due to the new application/admission structure, and I am interested to know how they are handling it.
I have the same questions as @genesmasher. Hopefully @VTAdmissions responds!
- Why is there no space for additional info? This doesnt allow us to explain extenuating circumstances or anything major besides our stats.
- Why do you only offer 4 short, practically useless,150 word supplements and no main essay? 150 words is 4-5 sentences... some of the prompts were literally longer than the allocated word count we could use.
@genesmasher @pungie2000 This is probably the most you are going to get from @VTAdmissions https://vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/apply/wait-list-frequently-asked-questions.html
I haven’t found breakdown of the ED vs. RD vs. EA numbers but Last year, about 20% of the entering class were ED kids which is relatively low as compared to other schols. VT is unusual in that their ED acceptance rate is actually lower than their overall rate; they defer a lot of kids to the EA rounds. It would be interesting to know how data differs this year with introduction of EA but that wont be available for a while.
@VTAdmissions or anyone who knows. Is the admission rate for Engineering lower than the general admission rate? By how much, if any? Thanks!
They aren’t going to come on here and start giving statistics. They release those formally.
In 2018 the university as a whole had an average GPA of 4.04 and SAT of 1283. While the College of Engineering on its own had a GPA of 4.18 and SAT of 1362. In contrast something like undecided University Studies had 3.95 GPA and 1244 SAT.