Appeals

Freshman applicants who have been waitlisted or denied admission and have new information to present may request an appeal in writing.

Guidelines for Submitting an Appeal for Freshman Admission

• The appeal will only be accepted from the student, not from a parent or guardian.
• The appeal must be submitted within 30 days of receiving the notification of the original decision.

• The appeal must contain NEW information that was not included in the initial application. Examples of new information might include updated standardized test scores or a new transcript if it is determined that a teacher submitted an inaccurate grade. Additional letters of recommendation are not considered new information. Grades earned in the February/March time frame that would not have been available during the regular review period for all applicants will not be considered.

  The appeals process is not a re-review process of the existing applicant file. Appeals will not be considered for applicants who are not submitting new information.

• The appeal should include an explanation of why the new information was not submitted originally.
• The Admissions Committee will notify you of its decision in writing.
• Appeals should be mailed to:

  Undergraduate Admissions
  201 Burruss Hall
  Blacksburg, VA 24061

Note for 2009:

Recently both Fairfax County and Loudoun County Schools retroactively changed the weighting system used in GPA calculation thereby assigning a new GPA to many students who already had an application on file. Both school systems sent students' updated credentials to Virginia Tech to reflect the new GPA for all applicants from those school divisions. The Admissions Committee considered the new GPA during application review; therefore, students from these counties may not present this recalculated GPA as new information for an appeal.