<p>I am a sophomore. I have a cumulative GPA of 3.25. I got a 180 on my PSAT (I hope to get at least a 195 next year). I will most likely be a National Achievement Finalist (my brother got it with a 190 psat score Ohio has low standards.) I play Football and Lacrosse and I will most defiantly make Varsity both Junior and Senior years. I am the head of my schools Multi Cultural Student Union. If I need to I can stay with relatives for a while in order to legally be a resident of Georgia. I am planning on doing the NROTC Marine Option program.</p>
<p>What is the question?</p>
<p>Sorry, Do you think I can get in with a lot of hard work on that GPA?</p>
<p>We can’t really say, especially without an SAT score. You want to get that GPA into the 3.6 range unweighted. a 3.8 - 3.9 UW GPA for the next 4 semesters should do it. </p>
<p>Of course, you could get a 2400 SAT score and you’ll be fine with a 3.4 GPA or you could get an 1800 SAT and be in bad shape even with a 4.0 for the next two years.</p>
<p>Also, if your parents are outside of Georgia, you’ll want to check on residency requirements before deciding to live with someone else.</p>
<p>Assuming you get a 4.0 and take the same number of classes you have been taking you GPA would only be a 3.5, which is still a decent way below GT middle 50% range of 3.62 - 3.97, which will likely be higher by the time you apply. Of course, this doesn’t take into account AP classes(you get a .5 credit for AP classes) or the fact that GT only counts your grades in your academic courses, which may or may not be to your benefit. If you are expecting to only make around a 1950 on the SAT this barely puts you in the middle 50% for SAT scores, which will also likely be higher by the time you apply. You might want to consider buying some sort of SAT study material and putting some time into rasing you score, because this is the one area that can somewhat negate a weak GPA. Georgia Tech also superscores, meaning they take your highest scores from each section of all SAT tests you have taken and put them together. So, it may be in your advantage to take the SAT multiple times. Your extracurricular involvement is about average. Taken together, this means GT is a slight reach school for you and you should have a backup option in case things don’t work out. However, you SHOULD still apply. If you raise your GPA(you need to make basically straight A’s) this will show that you are turning your grades around, and if you do well on the SAT and continue involvement or increase your involvement in EC’s(actual involvement/not just joining clubs) then you have a fair chance of admission. A strong essay that really sells you as a person would likely drastically improve your chances. Also, why would you want to be in-state if you’re doing ROTC, which pays for everything?</p>
<p>I assume he has grades for 3 semesters (Freshman Fall, Freshman Spring, Sophomore Fall), in which case he has four semesters left if he applies in December of his senior year (Spring Sophomore, Fall Junior, Spring Junior, Fall Senior). </p>
<p>In that case, a 4.0 in four semesters can get his UW to 3.68, which is fine for Tech. A 3.9 in those four semesters gets him to a 3.62, which is still good, a 3.8 is a 3.56, which is starting to create difficulty, a 3.7 gets him to a 3.50, which puts him in a bad position, a 3.6 brings him to a 3.45, which would require pretty close to a perfect SAT score.</p>
<p>That’s true, although I presume his grades for this semester are mostly set and from his verbage I presume he has yet to turn his grades around?, although I could certainly be wrong. At many schools, grades for first semester senior year are not placed on a transcript until after christmas break/sometime in January in which case he would not have that semester either. Although, GT might allow you to update your transcript at that point. The conservative senario is the one I used to get my numbers, but you are certainly correct in pointing out that the situation may be and hopefully is better than I accounted for.</p>
<p>for the record, my unweighted gpa is around a 3.3. My SAT score is around a 2100. I still managed to get in</p>
<p>and i am an out of state student. i do attend one of the most reputable schools in my region though</p>
<p>netsrock: What’s your declared major? Right now my UW GPA is a 3.6, my weighted around a 3.9. I hope to get this up, but my school’s actually pretty tough (75th in the nation by USNWR last year). I’ve got some pretty good extracurriculars, but still I feel like my gpa looks bad compared to other students, especially since i’m OOS. Unfortunately, theres no gpa inflation at my school (some kids are on 5.0 scale for every honors class). I’ve taken the hardest schedule possible, even skipped a few courses and took certain AP’s before anyone else in my year. I’m going for EE, what do you think?</p>
<p>Your point? Just on this forum, there was a 3.4 GPA, 2160 SAT rejected and a 3.39, 2160 SAT wait listed. </p>
<p>So they apparently liked something in your application.</p>
<p>G.P.Burdell: So, are they looking for consistency? My gpa sort of matches my SAT (3.9/2140). No doubt Georgia Tech is a selective university and even the best sometimes get rejected, but what kinds of students are they looking for?</p>
<p>raise your gpa to AT LEAST a 3.5. make a 1900+ on the SAT or a 30+ on the ACT. keep up the extra cur.'s and take as many AP classes as possible.</p>