Not to be overly cynical, but why even have an Early Action application at all? Appears the difference between Early Action and Regular Decision notification is about 2-3 weeks. It makes little to no sense really. A school like UGA will notify EA by mid-December and RD by mid-March – a difference of 3 months.
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I’m pretty sure I posted this earlier in this thread, but I’m of the opinion that all colleges and universities should move to a rolling admissions model similar to that of Pitt and Penn State. My son submitted applications to both on October 31 and had decisions (both acceptances to the main campus) by December 12 – 6 weeks. If those schools can turn decisions around in that amount of time, there’s really no reason that all schools couldn’t do the same.
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I guess the hesitation would be making decisions on that first 5% that come in without knowing what the quality of the overall submissions will be. But I’m sure if you’ve worked in admissions enough you know what the quality will be and it’s not likely to change year over year. Rolling really does seem to make sense to this lay person.
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You need to apply EA because they have stated that RD is basically just a way to fill up remaning spots when and if there are any.
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do you have to enroll to sign a housing contract?
Are we expecting to hear from them soon abt EA decisions?
Seems like it will be at least two weeks if not longer.
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I don’t think anyone has the ability to access the housing contract without an acceptance.
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I agree in principle - my son did the same thing with WVU and Baylor. However, Penn State applicants are considered Early Action if they apply before Nov 1. My son did apply via rolling admissions to Penn State on Dec 18th and he is still waiting for an answer.
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VA Tech admissions just posted on their Facebook page that they had over 52,000 applications!
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how does that compare to years past?
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According to their common data set, around 47.5k last year.
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The link is given here on the VT website
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VT and JMU have about the same amount of in-state applications. Looks like JMU has barely edged out VT over the past 2 years. Both have been getting 19K-20K. When the applicant pool starts to shrink in a couple years I wonder how far that number will drop.
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so you are saying for VT that they get 20k instate apps, and 32k OOS apps? and JMU is similar?
Pretty sure you need your VT username and account, which you don’t get until you pay your enrollment deposit.
Did you notice that it now says “late March” for regular decision applicants?
Just saw on twitter:
All remaining early action decisions will be released tomorrow (Feb. 2) at 5pm online. Thank you to the admissions team for their hard work and congrats to our new Hokies! #VT28 #VirginiaTech
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no just instate