Does anyone know how many EA applications they received this year? I haven’t found anything online or anything at all from JuanMoreHokie!
Yeah, but UVA and W&M also have Early Decision, which has gone out already. JMU only has EA, and they are mid-late Jan. The other biggest of VA schools are ahead of VT with sending some kind of acceptances out.
The “good” news is that once you get past the really weird Admissions Office, the rest of VT is very well managed.
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Yup we are in love with the school and no matter what happens we will probably go if we are lucky enough to be accepted. My S25 will be devastated if they don’t get in.
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When I multitasked while listening to the Insta live last week… she said they wouldn’t release EA numbers until after they closed out the RD applications.
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At first I didn’t like the late EA date, but looking at others schools that have a massive amount of deferrals (us being part of that too), I can understand & respect the later date. Being on the deferral list sucks. Much prefer waiting a bit to actually know then sit in limbo.
On the flipside, though… if you do have other options, but Virginia Tech is at the top of that list, you need to wait and fill out the countless scholarship applications for each school in anticipation.
I would for sure be singing a different tune if our deferral was acceptance because I’d have to pay deposits to hold those spots 
Guess we’d never be happy!!
Total get it from your perspective!
Out S25 is just stuck, though, because he has some of those acceptances, but really wants Virginia Tech. They’re really the only engineering school, we know of, that is so late.
Maybe we will be pleasantly surprised and they will release decisions the first week of Feb like last year.
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I suspect the Admissions Office facilitates the overall process and conducts initial review/scoring of applications. But then that baseline goes over to colleges & departments to adjust scores, establish their max capacity, and finalize applicant rankings above & below their tearline. Then back to Admissions for quality/consistency review and out the decisions go. All this iterating takes time.
So EA is the primary path for applicants, with few later admitted RA (so I’ve read) via remaining open slots and/or for exceptional candidates.
true, but this is the same process that would happen at other comparable universities that provide EA decisions ~2 months after EA application deadline, so at 3+ plus months after deadline, V-tech is an outlier
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NC’ians here… UNC-CH’s EA deadline was 10/15, and they won’t announce until 1/31, and NCSU EA deadline was 11/1, annoucing 1/30. So VT is really on a similar timeline to them considering their EA deadline was 11/15.
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On the West Coast, schools like the University of Washington (March 1-15), UCLA (Late March) and other UC’s don’t announce until March, so it could be worse…
fair and good point. UGA, Clemson, UT-Knoxville, FSU (for in-state), and some other state flagships are all <2 months. So, there is a range. I don’t include UC’s (we are CA) in this comparison - they don’t have EA. They’re also test blind, so altogether a different method out here
due dates were Dec 1 (for UCs). So, not really worse than V-tech EA
FYI, apparently some folks (mainly on the FB parent groups) really don’t like newbies saying “V-tech”, as it’s some sort of tech company… 
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Most don’t like VaTech either. It’s really Virginia Tech or VT.
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you mean, like saying Cal tech instead of California Institute of Technology? But…thanks for the heads up, will keep that in mind!
If memory serves from when my soon-to-be S25 aerospace engineering student was little, V-Tech is actually a toy company that made electronically-enhanced toys for tots! 
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