some vt stats for this year...could you have gotten in to this place now?:
---vt total enrollment is 38,857 (on the way to the university's benchmark goal of 40,000)
---31,035 undergraduate students
---2024 first-year class of 7,289 students came from a record 52,498 applicants...vt extended offers to 28,758 students
---first-year students came from 66 countries and entered VT with an average GPA of 4.11 (highest ever for an incoming class)
---7,129 graduate students
---494 students at the va-md college of vet med
---199 students enrolled at the vt carilion school of medicine
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jdkhokie
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buddies and I were in all the AP courses plus Calc and Physics but our class valedictorian had regular non AP classes and vocational classes in cosmetology. She was one smart beautician.
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Hurley09
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or was that my BAC?
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I think the overall acceptance rate was in the high 70s in the late 80s when I applied, but i wonder what the acceptance rate was for the College of Engineering.
My youngest got in with a 3.65/1320 this year.
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LaneRat
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But I hear grade inflation is a thing.
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honors classes is greater leading to higher GPA's.
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students taking AP or college credits they get essentially bonus points. SAT scores were also changed a few years back and not even required for lots of Universities.
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Sure. With today’s grade inflation and SATs being easier, no problem.
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this class vs a 4 in this one- I'll take this and if i get a B it's better... it's ok though- most are taking garbage majors anyway- just funding the expansion of the enrollment
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Every other school we looked at, his GPA and ACT were in the same band ... at NC State he was in the 98% for ACT and below average for GPA.... that makes no sense.
Almost no way to compare kids from different schools, much less different states. That's why we have standardized tests like ACT/SAT. They may not be perfect, but they provide an apples to apples comparison of abilities in certain areas. Yes, if you can afford prep courses, you can get much better scores (I paid $800 for a prep course for my son, his ACT went up 4 points and got him a $60k scholarship....so that was money well spent).
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