![]() ![]() In preparation for its largest freshman class, Virginia Tech offered some incoming freshman students financial incentives to defer their enrollment at the campus. Virginia Tech Hokies students jump up and down prior to the game against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at Lane Stadium on October 25, 2018, in Blacksburg, Virginia. Ganjian said Early Action moved "The University of Virginia-bound" students to broaden their school choice to include Virginia Tech, because they no longer had to wait until April to find out if they were accepted. "If these people at Virginia Tech, with highly sophisticated mathematical models can't predict outcomes with these changes, it's really, really going to be hard for your average, everyday family to start predicting outcomes and where their student's going to be admitted," Colleen Ganjian, a college counselor at DC College Counseling, told Newsweek. The 2018-2019 decision cycle was the first time Virginia Tech offered Early Action, which allows students to learn their acceptance status earlier than if they applied for Regular Decision, but does not bind them to accept as Early Decision does. Among them were the school's offerings for engineering-focused students, an increase in international student acceptances and an increase in on-campus visits from prospective students. Vice Provost for Enrollment Management Luisa Havens Gerardo told VT News a number of factors contributed to the bump in acceptances. As a result, the university gave in-state students with specific majors three options to potentially reduce enrollment for the upcoming semester. ![]() With an original goal of 6,600 first-year students for the 2019 fall semester, the public Blacksburg, Virginia, university is projecting almost 1,000 additional students, bringing the total to roughly 7,500. Virginia Tech's largest-ever incoming freshman class has prompted the university to offer financial incentives for students to pursue less traditional education paths. ![]()
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