<p>@NervousParent - Virginia Tech admission is need blind. The admissions counselors and committees essentially will know NOTHING about an applicant’s financial situation. There is nowhere on the application that asks for specific financial information…nothing that will even indicate whether or not the applicant will fill out the FAFSA.</p>
<p>So in short, students who deferred ED were deferred probably due to their stats, or because admissions wants to see how they will do during the first semester of their senior year, or because they want to see how the applicant will rank next to the RD applicants.</p>
<p>Now about your daughter…she got very lucky! I know someone who applied with around a 3.2-3.3 UW and better SATs in state and got rejected. What major did she apply to? That seems to be a VERY rare case for an OOS student.</p>