My biggest issue with the 25% release was the dorm priority issue.
My daughter would most likely accept the day she gets accepted. She normally would have done early decision and already have her acceptance decision and accepted. I understand the no early decision - but effectively the 25% were given an early decision and thus priority for dorms. My daughter because she wasn’t in the 25% then falls behind in dorm selection. That was not fair for those that would have accepted early.
That’s very valid. I wonder how many of the 25% have VT as their first choice and are committing or if they are waiting to hear from other schools first.
Anecdotally, my daughter didn’t commit until mid-April last year so she was in one of the last groups to choose housing. She had the option of the Honors dorms and another LLC, but decided to take her chances with a roommate she met online. They are in one of the older non-AC dorms and they both love it.
For the business school, do they have both pre business and direct admits like Indiana or is everyone who gets in a direct admit?
It is my understanding that all admitted business students are direct admits and you have the option of any of the business school degrees.
It’s Direct Admit. My son is currently a junior at Pamplin… he applied Business Undecided. He declared his major last year in Finance, CFA
How does he like it?
my son was accepted OOS and we are not committing because finances are very much a consideration. We need to compare everything before making a decision, although VT is a big favorite of his.
He LOVES it!
We also submitted first week of September. Any chance they reviewed the more recent submissions? That seems to be the trend
everyone have a student ID in the scholarship portal?
Where are you seeing a student ID number?
People aren’t seeing any trend as to who was in the 25% that were released (lots of theories around that don’t seem told true). It doesn’t appear to be completely timing of application but probably department dependent on how they review and what order.
we submitted 2 days before deadline an accepted. It all seems very random
And one person on here noted that their son’s application only started to be reviewed on 12/20 — the day before those initial acceptances were sent out, which suggests that some applications may not have even been opened when they sent out that first batch. As noted above, I don’t refer to that first batch as “the first 25%” because I’m confident those acceptances will result in much less than 25% of this class — maybe even only 10%.
Yes.
I’m not sure that really makes a difference, though? I believe their normal yield rate is 28%. Assuming we take the “25% of total acceptances were released” at face value and assume that yield rate holds for this batch (I can see reasons why it wouldn’t, but unless there’s hard evidence I’ll just use that number for now), that would translate to those acceptances being ~7% of the eventual class. But it would still reflect 25% of the total acceptances regardless of how many kids yield from it (unless, I suppose, the yield rate varies from whatever number they were expecting and they ramp up/down the number of acceptances to adjust).
VT itself declared them 25% of all the acceptances coming out of EA, and on their in person tour they stated that they have had years where they have filled almost all of the available offers in ED and EA so they 25% may truly be 25% of ALL acceptances made this year. VT traditionally does not accept many from RD unless they were deferred, either waiting for accepted students to deny the acceptance or waiting for 1st semester grades.
I understand your response. My response to you is that VT admissions states “About 25% of our first-year offers have been released with this round,” not “25% of total acceptances have been released.” And my point is that they may have to make way more offers than 3x whatever number they released on 12/21. They are assuming a yield rate, and I wonder how they can come up with a yield for this batch when they haven’t been without ED since I don’t know when (someone on here may know). How does VT estimate how many of those 12/21 accepted applicants will actually enroll vs those who applied just because they could this year without committing to attending VT? Many of those students— if they truly are the ones with the best numbers among the EA pool — may be hoping for a more selective school. The ones I know of who were accepted on 12/21 will only commit to VT if several other schools fall through for them.
Actually I think you’ve hit on the likeliest explanation for why they did this: as you note, because they’re new to EA-only, they can only really have at best some rough estimate of yield. Best way to sharpen that pencil on that is to send out a meaningful number of acceptances from a wide variety of applicants (timing of submission, OOS vs in, different majors, etc.)
Now obviously the Commit deadline is still way down the road. But, some people do commit early/straight away, and I know some other EA schools definitely look at yield on a dynamic basis as people Commit and adjust acceptances up or down moving forward depending on how the trend looks. They may even confer with another EA-only school with more experience to vet the trend.
My $.02.
Really good point - it was probably a “test”