This happened to my older son - hard to understand how he got waitlisted with his qualifications and our best guess was yield management. We were in state for Engineering, he got in to Purdue, Lehigh, WPI, RPI, CWRU and Pitt, but waitlisted at VT. He had an in state friend who got in to MIT, CalTech, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon… but waitlisted at VT. They definitely practice yield protection.
I know that’s small comfort, but make sure your D knows that she’s not alone, and it’s not a reflection on her ability to succeed there, because she would.
Accepted “General Engineering with intent for Chemical Engineering”
OOS
Competitive public HS, does not rank, does not use 4.0 scale for GPA
Solid SAT scores, excellent ECs with leadership, likely excellent LORs and essays
Small scholarship offered
Waitlisted. Engineering/Mechanical, OOS, 34 ACT, 4.3/3.8 GPA, 8 APs, decent ECs. Surprised, frankly. His stats are well within the top 25% of last year’s class. Hard to understand. Empathize with others on this thread in same boat. Unfortunately VT accepted zero students off their waitlist last year, so guess we need to cross this one off the list.
Accepted in-state
Computational Modeling and Data Analytics Major
4.53 W, 3.95 UW, 1550 SAT (800 M, 750 EBRW)
2x IEEE pub and couple of awards at some intl conferences
no honors though unfortunately
re: honors admittance - after seeing the note above, I had S25 go back into his portal. It says this. Because of the generic info re: decision release, on quick read we assumed the honors note was about being invited to apply to the honors college, not actually being admitted. But on re-read maybe that’s the admittance to honors college note? It wasn’t mentioned in the decision letter.
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