Virginia Tech will go big on the waitlist for instate!

ShenVal18
Fri, 08 May 2020 18:01:42 +0000

VT has had an on-and-off history of pulling students from the waitlist. My point is that the “headache” that the writer refers to is not a new phenomenon that’s isolated to the incoming class of 2024. In 2018 there were 1,896 kids pulled from the waitlist. In 2016 there were 1,697. A big portion of those are certainly in-state and have the same impact as this year - it happens any time that the top tier schools in VA pull from their waitlists. There’s just no article written about it in the Richmond paper each time. (BTW, we don’t know how many of the 950 mentioned in the article would have been pulled even if the full expected international enrollment had occurred). There’s a hint of bias in how the article was written, and with no disrespect intended to Radford students or alums (I know a bunch of them), I don’t think there’s nearly the crossover in applicants to both schools (and potential waitlist pulls from the Radford pool) that the author contends there are.