VT doesn’t guarantee that it will meet demonstrated need, so it wouldn’t seem that they would deny or admit based on financial need. Not sure about this year, but historically at VT you do need to file a FAFSA for merit awards. It was the only college we looked into that required it for merit.
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Same.
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That is very odd and makes me wonder how much of the merit awards handed out by VT are actually based on merit. I know that my son will not be getting any financial aid but any merit award that he may get would be very much appreciated so we did submit the FAFSA, which was very annoying to complete due to the major mess the federal government made of the update to the process they made this year,
My daughter is an OOS student at VT and was awarded merit (none of their merit offers are big, so don’t get too excited). We don’t qualify for financial aid, but submitted the FAFSA to be considered for merit at VT. They also have general scholarship application that students can fill out yearly that also requires a FAFSA to be on file.
I don’t have any scientific data, but 2021 was a big year for VT at my kids’ high school with 13 seniors committing to VT (prior to that, maybe 1 or 2 every other year would go to VT). Many of the 13 received merit in some form. It’s a high achieving high school and all of these kids had very competitive stats, so I don’t necessarily think they were just randomly throwing merit around for any stats - but I wondered if maybe the merit was a carrot (albeit a baby carrot) to entice OOS students. Again, it’s not going to bring OOS tuition down to our in-state rate, so IDK - purely anecdotal.
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If they’re going to release more acceptances, it’s likely to be soon. We’re just past halfway between 12/21 and the expected release date, and it wouldn’t make much sense to release another batch right before the decisions come out. My guess is that if it doesn’t happen by the end of the first week of February, it’s not going to happen. Of course, I have no inside info.
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While we’d love to get an answer soon, I agree. We are definitely almost at the point (or past the point) where it doesn’t make sense to release another wave before the full decisions. From past years looks like they release around the 16-19th of the month (whatever Friday falls around there, which could be the 16th this year). Of course this year is a wild card with no ED round- so who knows!?!
Thats also in years when ED existed. Its such a strange year since there is no ED. EA would have historically been early to mid Feb but with the random late Dec release and them changing the verbiage to late Feb, I’m not confident of anything at this point. 12/21 was a Thurs and 2/29 is a Thurs. I would imagine if they release it will be this Thurs but then again, this is all hypothesis based on nothing LOL and in theory the halfway point was thist past Thurs. My son wants to commit and we are ready to do so… just need Tech to say yes!
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my guess is we will hear on the full set of EA decisions on 2/17 (date they released last year). Not in batches–but one full batch. I am hoping they consider mid semester grades uploaded into SRAR.
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I doubt they will consider… its taken them 4-5 months already LOL! Plus many students dont even have those grades yet and im sure you know the SRAR debacle at UTK. I’m not touching my sons SRAR. Our 1st semester report cards dont even release till Feb 6 at our school.
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yea…you are probably right. Are you in state or OOS?
We are in state
We’re right there with you on the desire to commit to VT and get done with this process!
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are you in Fairfax County public schools? I was wondering when the report card is released and saw you noted it was 2/6
Nope! We live in Hampton Roads
Imagine if they’ve taken this long on the other 75% of EA’s and then have to relook at those again with the uploaded grades. My son just finished 1st semester finals last week, and report cards aren’t released until 2/9.
I shared from their page above, they dont look at midterm grades.
Thank you. Sorry, I did see that and had typed something thanking you and acknowledging that, but got distracted with work, and somehow didn’t post. I see pro’s and con’s of looking at 1st Semester grades.
My son’s been deferred to a few schools, and they want to see updated grades. He hasn’t “mailed it in” his senior year, taking three AP classes and an advanced course, and continuing to push himself. Looks like he’ll get a 3.95 UW with all A’s and an A-. I saw a post on Reddit that a kid was accepted elsewhere, and while typically pulls A’s and B+'s, 1st semester they got a D in Calc, and just B’s and C’s, no A’s… The debate is if that’ll potentially revoke his offer.
We’re under the assumption that at some point before stepping foot on campus, schools will want to see your Senior grades?
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Yes, definitely have to see final grades or offer could be revoked! Schools that want midterms are typically after a deferral when there is still time. VT just states up front they wont look because schedules for release of grades are too inconsistent. It would have been great since my son is also taking 3 APs and is holding tight with As lol.
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what SRAR debacle??