Chance Me for G Tech?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Georgia Institute of Technology
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<p>SAT: (Horrible)
Math: 650
Critical Reading: 630
Writing: 570</p>

<p>GPA Unweighted : 3.75</p>

<p>All my academics are Honors and AP (I take all the AP's offered except AP Gov)</p>

<p>Grades:</p>

<p>AP Calculus: 97
AP Lit: 91
AP Lang: 89
AP Us History: 93
AP Chem: 87</p>

<p>All Math classes are A's (Honors besides the Calc)
Literature: A's and B's
Sciences: Chemistry Honors: 94 , AP:87
Physical Science: 88 (lazy freshman...i had like a 50 going into the second semester)
Social Studies: All A's </p>

<p>AP Scores
Language : 3
US History : 3</p>

<p>EC?
National Honor Society (3 Years)
BETA (2 Years)
President of Technology Students Association Johnson Chapter
SkillsUSA (Region Winner)
Anime (lol)
Graphics, (I make programs and stuff for my school and other schools)
I fix computers o.o</p>

<p>Honors?
Knight of Knowledge
Knight of Technology
(these are the equestrian hall of fame stuff at my school)
PrintED Certified with Distinction
Georgia Meritt Award (Top 10%)
Freshman, Sophmore, Junior top 5
(now im ranked 6/196 but still top 5%)
Perect Attendance since kindergarten o.o
Various Graphic Design Awards (most notable PIAG business awards)</p>

<p>P.M. me if you wanna read my essay.</p>

<p>Oh, I'm Asian, English is my second language, im fluent in english and vietnamese
(I aced Spanish 1 and 2)</p>

<p>Was born in Vietnam. Still a Permanent Resident.</p>

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<p>I'm not sure if SAT scores matter to GA Tech as much as everyone makes out. I was accepted in December, and I got a 29 on the ACT Math (I never took the SAT, but for comparison purposes, I got a 610 on Math II in SAT subject tests.) That's bottom 25 percentile, and for some reason, they still wanted me to apply for the President's Scholarship.
Admittedly, it may have been balanced out by my 36 in reading and 34 in English.
I applied with the major of "undeclared engineering" and I'm female, so that may have had something to do with it. They could also be cutting me slack because I go to public school in Florida, which is basically the educational kiss of death.
I don't want to talk down on their admissions committee, so I should mention that my UW GPA is a 4.0, and weighted is a 5.0, and also that I have 1,000+ community service hours.</p>

<p>All in all though, I think you have a very good shot at getting in, as long as you make your extracurriculars sound as impressive on the application as you did in this post. Beware, however, that colleges are not easily swayed by honor societies. In fact, when I applied to University of Miami, the application specifically said not to include honor societies. I think colleges know they're a joke.</p>

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<p>oh ok thanks
Well, we do a lot in our NHS, We're required like 100 hours of community service, but we have the opportunity to do so much more then that.</p>

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<p>It's difficult to judge. Certain aspects of your application can get you admitted even if you're lacking elsewhere. For example, MGT majors have lower required SAT scores (an easy way to get into Tech is to apply as an MGT major then change after you're admitted), being a woman helps your application, applying for an underrepresented country or state (e.g. if you're the only person to apply from Wyoming) helps your application, etc.</p>

<p>With that said, one question you should ask yourself is not if you'll get accepted, but rather if you should go to Tech. Even in the management program, there's a substantial amount of math required (starting at higher level calculus). If you can't handle that level of math and are unwilling to work hard to get up to speed, you'll end up following the traditional Tech failure path (start out as Mechanical Engineering then transfer to Industrial Engineering then transfer to Management then either transfer out of Tech or graduate with a 2.2 GPA). With a 2.2 GPA in Management from Tech, your options include Waffle House manager or insurance salesman (seriously). Now what's the point of going to college, being miserable for 4 years, then ending up with a low-paying failure of a job? You would have been much better off (from a career, enjoyment, and stress standpoint) just going to UGA and graduating with a 3.5 GPA in something else.</p>

<p>Going to Tech isn't a magical ticket to a successful career. Being successful at Tech can lead to good things, but being a failure at Tech still leads to failure. Don't put yourself in a position to fail if you don't think you can handle it.</p>

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<p>My D looked at applying to GT so I investigated the application process. To me it looked like they mostly stressed GPA in admissions but they recalculated it according to a formula which is on their admissions website.</p>

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<p>I think G. P. Burdell does not know what he's talking about. GT has the same admission standard, regardless of gender. Same on MGT. Once you take out recruited athletes, I bet MGT has a really close SAT average to other departments. Even if it doesn't, why would GT admit lower quality students just because they chose MGT? That's not a smart way to manage your admissions pool, right?</p>

<p>Tech has such a motivated, interesting, diverse student body, that you're not going to find at most state schools, given GT's unusually high percentage of non-GA students.</p>

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I think G. P. Burdell does not know what he's talking about. GT has the same admission standard, regardless of gender. Same on MGT.

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<p>GT professes to be an affirmative action employer but yes to my knowledge the admit rates are equivalent for men and women. It would be pretty obvious by the common data set whether a school practices AA; MIT's common data set shows an admit rate that's double for women as it is for men, for example. There are some race-specific scholarships, however.</p>

<p>I could be wrong though. G. P. Burdell has a perspective we do not.</p>

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Even if it doesn't, why would GT admit lower quality students just because they chose MGT? That's not a smart way to manage your admissions pool, right?

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<p>Many schools admit people based on their intended major. At these schools, it's usually difficult to change your major once admitted, however (which it sounds like it's relatively hard to do at Tech and you only have one free chance). To use an example, it's inherently obvious that there is a difference in the average intelligence of an elementary education major and an electrical engineering major (to use extremes). If we held elementary education applicants to the same standards as electrical engineering applicants, we'd have a very hard time filling spots in elementary education courses. Conversely, if we admitted electrical engineering students based on how smart they were compared to the average elementary education applicant, we'd water down the engineering program. It's all part of maintaining a balanced school.</p>

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<p>The school clearly does not have the same admission standards for different student demographics, backgrounds, and majors.</p>

<p>Students in the MGT program have a lower admission requirement for obvious reasons. Each major and school within the Institute are designed for a general number of students. For example, the Institute cannot process 3,000 new Electrical Engineering majors - there's simply not the lab space and classroom space to do that. So, admissions has to "spread out" the admissions. X% of students admitted as ECE majors graduate with that degree, Y% of non-ECE majors transfer into ECE majors, Z% drop out of school before making it to the upper level courses, etc. Then they back calculate an expected number of upper level ECE majors and make sure it is within some range that is acceptable to the resource restrictions of the department. It may not be that clear cut, but there are controls in place to prevent a scenario where every student in an admissions class is ECE.</p>

<p>Tech draws the best engineers from across the country, but when it comes to majors where Tech is ranked lower (MGT, ARCH, HTS, etc.) the applicant pool is much thinner, so as a consequence, lower quality students are admitted to maintain the balance. This happens at all schools across the country, though most are up front about it (e.g. if a student is admitted to the University of Texas, they then have to pass through an additional screening of their high school GPA and SAT scores to get into a restricted major, such as business or engineering - it's common for a student to be admitted to the University but not the major school to which he/she applied). To verify this imbalance, all you need to do is talk to students. There's a reason the students call the management school the M-Train (Google for a nice video) compared to other majors. </p>

<p>A similar phenomenon occurs with demographics. If Tech's goal is to have a higher percentage of female engineering students than the percentage of female engineering students in the population as a whole, either Tech needs to admit women at a lower threshold than men or Tech needs to create programs to specifically target women (in reality, Tech does both). </p>

<p>This is by no means a bad thing or a "knock" on the school. Tech is a Top 5 engineering school, and so it attracts Top 5 engineering talent. Tech is a Top 30 Social Science school, so it attracts Top 30 talent. There's a clear difference between Top 30 talent and Top 5 talent, so you have to look at those two sets of students differently. If you admitted them at the same quality threshold, the school would be all engineers and the Ivan Allen College would disappear*, so this process makes sense. </p>

<p>*and before you argue that the Ivan Allen college essentially doesn't exist, keep in mind that it has 1,100 students, making it almost the same size as the Management school (1,500 students).</p>