I have a 3.8 unweighted GPA, and a 4.18 Weighted GPA. I have received three B’s as my final grades. Do I have much of a chance of getting into Georgia Tech?
Yes. I have known students with B’s get into GT. Just be sure to apply EA, do a good job on your essays and convey why you want to go to GT. Good luck.
What were the B’s in?
I received a B freshmen year for Math as my final grade and two B’s sophomore year. One for my final grade in chemistry and the other for Precalculus. These were honors courses. I’m from NJ.
Did you get A in calculus ab-bc?
@MYOS1634 I was recommended to skip BC and take AB, so I will not be taking AB. I’m approaching my junior year, so I will take BC my junior year I have yet to take this course.
I assume you mean you were told to skip AB and take BC 
What will you take senior year in math- hopefully your school offers MV and you’ll be authorized to take it? Other possibilities if you’re aiming for schools the caliber of Georgia Tech, woukd to take discrete math and linear algebra as a dual enrolled student at a community college.
What science classes will you have taken by the end of senior year? All three from bio, Chem, physics, plus AP physics?
Other important questions:
Why Georgia tech, since you’re from NJ?
Have you talked “budget” with your parents, how much can they afford per year or per month out of income+savings?
Your assumption is correct.
- I most likely will go to a community college or to Rutgers university to attend a course.
- I will have taken Bio honors, Chem honors, and AP Physics. I have yet to decide the science course to take senior year.
- I'm interested in Georgia Tech's computer science program. It's said to be one of the best. I also fell in love with the campus's environment.
- My dad can pay out of pocket.
OK that’s good 
Check with your dad not only that he can, but that he is willing to be full pay for you. Many parents regardless of income bracket, don’t want to spend that much money and want their child to earn merit scholarships.
What other Universities are you looking at? Remember to build your list from the ground up - 2 safeties (affordable Universities with about 50% admit rate) - for you TCNJ, Rutgers, Rowan, NJIT for instance, UDel, Clarkson, WPI. Then 3-5 matches - for you it’d be Penn state engineering/IST/smeal, UMaryland, Union, RPI…
3 B’s? I think you’ll be okay.
- Yep, my dad will be paying for my education.
- My list is as follows: Rutgers Honors would be my guaranteed safety, then I'd have others like Penn State Engineering, Georgia Tech, and MIT
- I don't know anymore with my grades. Just because I have a passion for something, might not necessarily mean I get into tho, right?
@MYOS1634 I also have UCLA, Berkley, and Caltech on my list. I especially wanna go to Caltech, more so than anywhere else, but I don’t know how feasible that is. What would my game plan have to be? Seeking out internships to balance my grades?
@ConcernedRabbit However, they were final grades. Not semester or quarterly but my final grades. I don’t mean the test, but the actual final grade.
You need two safeties including one that shares some characteristics with your favorite choices.
UCLA and UCBerkeley will be full cost OOS and are reaches too. You need to find at leat 3 more matches. If you like California it could be Cal Poly SLO or UCSB or UCD… Only then should you add all the reaches.
Caltech is very numbers based. They’ll want 800s in math2, physics, chemistry, 800 on the math section of the SAT, 5’s on your science AP’s. In that respect they’re very much like Canadian universities. You could look at UBC and Waterloo.
People get accepted not having perfect gpa’s. However, you want your strong subjects to be math and science for engineering programs. Passion does matter and if you can convey that it will help you with admissions where ever you choose to apply.
Yes, you can even Stanford accepts kids with sub 30 ACT scores and 3.75 uw gpas.
Rare but they are there…some even lower.