By Jonathan Schramm
Assistant Director, Undergraduate Admissions
There's no denying that the bulk of the work we assistant directors do in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions centers around recruiting high school seniors, and reviewing their applications once they arrive. But we get applications from lots of other students too: non-degree students, international students, and transfer students.
It's this last group I'd like to discuss today, as they represent a pretty large chunk of our student body. You probably didn't know that each year 15 to 20 percent of incoming students enter Virginia Tech as transfers. While some of them hail from other four-year universities, many of them come to us from the Virginia Community College System (check out our articulation agreements). Now, we don't like to say that there's a back door into Virginia Tech, but if there were one, transferring from one of Virginia's many community colleges would be it.
When it comes to transfers, we typically have fewer applicants and we don't take SAT or ACT scores into consideration, nor do we heavily weight the high school transcript, grades, courses, etc. All we consider is a student's current college grade point average and the transferability of their college curriculum. With proper advising, students can be competitive to transfer to VT with even one year of college course work under their belts.
So, keep that in mind when you're thinking of ways to become a Hokie! We've got tons of majors to choose from, and some have different transfer qualifications than others, so make sure to talk to one of us assistant directors before you apply.
Here's some more information about transferring to VT www.admiss.vt.edu/apply/transfer/.
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