Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets welcomes its newest class

Approximately 250 new members of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets were expected to report to the Virginia Tech campus August 11 for New Cadet Check-in – one week before the rest of the campus will be moving in.

The incoming Class of 2011 will join a long standing tradition at Virginia Tech which began with 132 cadets in October 1872, when all students were cadets and Virginia Tech was known as the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College.

The Corps of Cadets’ Class of 2011 includes 59 minority cadets and two international cadets. There are 35 women, who comprise 14 percent of the class. Members of the Class of 2011 include cadets from 31 different state selected from more than 2,100 applicants.

“These young patriots are coming here to dedicate themselves to living by the values represented on the War Memorial pylons: Brotherhood, Honor, Leadership, Sacrifice, Service, Loyalty, Duty, and the university motto: Ut Prosim, ‘That I May Serve’”, said the Commandant of Cadets MGEN Jerry Allen.

Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college, Virginia Tech is the most comprehensive university in the Commonwealth of Virginia and is among the top research universities in the nation. Today, Virginia Tech’s eight colleges are dedicated to quality, innovation, and results through teaching, research, and outreach activities. At its 2,600-acre main campus located in Blacksburg and other campus centers in Northern Virginia, Southwest Virginia, Hampton Roads, Richmond, and Roanoke, Virginia Tech enrolls more than 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries in 180 academic degree programs.