Virginia Tech will go big on the waitlist for instate!

drewh02
Sat, 09 May 2020 20:43:24 +0000

I think what happened is along the lines of what you said @AlmostThere2018. They admitted much less than last year (17, 18k), because they already overenrolled the class of 2023 and had a ton of guaranteed transfers. With COVID-19 and other unaccounted for factors, they have less OOS and International students enrolling, so they turned quickly to the waitlist, focusing initially solely on international and OOS students. They began pulling in mid-April, almost all OOS students, and this trend continued until right up until the national deadline May 1st. The majority of those students pulled are given until May 15th to make their decision. After that, Tech still probably won’t either have enrolled enough students, or enrolled the correct percentages in order to get their expected revenue, so they will pull large amounts from the in-state pool, which is what the article is saying. These are just my thoughts. In 2016 and 2018, they pulled over 1700 off waitlists compiled of only 2000-3000 students (They offered more students spots on the waitlist, but less accepted obviously). I have no clue how many they offered spots this year, but I’d expect probably 3000 applicants accepted a spot, so maybe 2/3 will be pulled? Again, these are all just based on past data and logical inferences; I have no affiliation with the Virginia Tech office of admissions.