Chance me please for Georgia Tech

<p>GPA= 5.63 weighted (on a 5.0 scale. Max gpa is a 6.0 with all honors/aps) (Each year I have taken all honors/Aps except for english except last year when I took Ap lang and comp)</p>

<p>Class Rank: top 10% (closer to top 7 or 8%)</p>

<p>ACT= 35 (English 36, Math 35, Science 33, Reading 36, 8 on the essay)</p>

<p>SAT= 2090 (But we don't talk about this, and I will definitely not send this in)</p>

<p>SAT 2s: Physics (730) Math2 (780)
Ap Tests: Ap Euro (5), Ap Lang (5), Ap Us (5)</p>

<p>Senior Course Load (APs only): Ap Physics, Ap Micro/Macro, Ap German, Ap Gov, Ap Calc</p>

<p>EC: Varsity soccer for two years. Wrote two self-published books (fantasy). Member of a couple of clubs, but, alas, no leadership positions. </p>

<p>Parents are divorced, dunno if gives me an advantage in admissions </p>

<p>I wanna major in Mechanical Engineering (or maybe Aerospace, but most likely Mechanical)</p>

<p>Post your grades so we can determine a GPA on a 4.0 scale. For each class list the name, the grade, and the level (honors/AP/none, etc).</p>

<p>Alright, here goes:
Freshman:
English 1 regular: A, A
Honors Biology: A, B
Honors Geometry: A, A
Honors World History: A, A
German 1 Honors: A, A
Creative Cooking Second Semester (LOL): A</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
AP Euro: A, A
Chemistry Honors: B, A
German 2 Honors: A, A
Algebra 2/Trig Honors: A, B
English 2 Regular: A, A</p>

<p>Junior Year:
Pre-Calc Honors: A, A
German 3 Honors: A, A
AP US history: A, A
Physics Honors: B, A
AP Lang and Comp: B, B</p>

<p>Gym each year with all As (but I don’t think it is factored into our GPAs as it is considered Pass/Fail)</p>

<p>If you’re in-state, you’re in for sure. If you’re OOS, you still have a very good chance. In my opinion, you have nothing to worry about.</p>

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<p>GT does not treat in-state and out-of-state students differently.</p>

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<p>UW GPA: 3.81 / 4.00
GT GPA: 3.90 / 4.00</p>

<p>With that plus a 35 ACT plus good EC’s, you won’t have a problem getting in at all.</p>

<p>Thanks a lot for calculating that for me. I really do hope I get in because it just seems like an all around great school to attend for engineering.</p>

<p>Really? I’ve heard from several sources that the state legislature puts a lot of pressure on Tech to take in-state students from rural areas especially.</p>

<p>[Georgia</a> Tech Undergraduate Admission Message Boards • View topic - Out-of-State Admissions Criteria](<a href=“http://messageboards.admission.gatech.edu/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2039]Georgia”>http://messageboards.admission.gatech.edu/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2039)</p>

<p>Also, if you pull the GT freshman admission statistics, you’ll see that they are virtually identical for in-state and out-of-state. </p>

<p>The GA State legislature does put pressure on Tech (and UGA) to cater to in-state students, particularly from South and Central Georgia (who frequently complain that the top tier universities are all in Northern Georgia). Tech and UGA have responded to this by having regional campuses (UGA in Tifton and GT in Savannah). Tech also has an RETP alliance with several Georgia colleges guaranteeing transfer admission to students at several Georgia universities all over the state.</p>

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<p>Good luck. I wouldn’t treat Tech as a safety (I don’t think anyone should) but I would be very surprised if you don’t get in. Just put some thought into the essay, have someone else proof read it, and you should be fine. It looks like you are having a great high school career.</p>

<p>I see. Thanks for clearing that misconception up for me.</p>

<p>I don’t know, I look at the admission data and they seem not to differentiate between the OOS and IS stats, so how the heck would they find that? It’s not even in the factbook which provides almost every piece of of institutional info. one could want. I suppose I would believe the admissions blog, however, if I were them, I would also say that OOS and IS are treated the same so as to discourage people for IS w/lower stats from applying. I don’t know. Admission websites/blogs of various sorts tend to be “dressed to impress”. Most schools are guilty of it. </p>

<p>Also: An SAT of 2090 is actually solid for Tech (at least when you consider those actually yielding, however admission is much different. I would guess it’s still a little above average as long as it was the writing score holding you down. Among enrolled, you’d be above average), however a 35 ACT is superior! Keep up the good work and you should get in.</p>

<p>A 2090 SAT is below average for Tech admissions, but the ACT is well above average. Tech takes the better of the two.</p>

<p>I don’t see the dataset for admissions right now, but if you go to IRP’s website ([Welcome</a> | Institutional Research and Planning](<a href=“http://www.irp.gatech.edu/]Welcome”>http://www.irp.gatech.edu/)) right after admissions close for the year, they’ll post the admitted students’ statistics. One of the ways they split the data is in-state vs. out-of-state and you see no significant difference between those two groups.</p>

<p>You can find the matriculated data on most websites, but that’s not accurate as there are different factors that affect in-state and out-of-state students that greats an inherent bias.</p>

<p>Yes, I understand that. I said that for a matriculated student, it’s above average but for admissions, it is much different. For admission you ideally want 2100-2150(2200 for a nice match. Among admitted students the average is like a 1400-1420 CR/M meaning that if they have a 700-710 on those and screw up on Wr like most of the others, they have a good chance. Most students enrolling don’t have 700 on each section so a fairly large amount get admitted w/2100 lower) to have a reasonable chance, however, someone w/a 2090 that was admitted and yields will be above average (particularly if the distribution of their score is mostly between CR/M). Yeah, I looked on that site. Maybe they take it down after they announce it (they normally announce the qualifications of admitted students after decisions are mailed, maybe like a month later). Either way, that’s strange. Normally many other top public schools make it a bit more difficult for OOS students to gain admission. But then again that need isn’t really there for Tech b/c it is engineering and will naturally yield a class at least as good as UVA’s (maybe not Berkeley, but close) by merely admitting the better students throughout Ga. For example, some metro Atlanta HSes prepare well for science education at a top school. Some key private schools and some of those publics in Gwinnett come to my mind at the moment. Those schools do amazing things (despite grade inflation).</p>

<p>For matriculated data, I don’t use the admissions website or anything like that. I use CDS because it encourages schools to report w/o “fluff” though I’m sure some still do it. I’ve noticed that public schools (Tech is among these) report w/o fluff and thus CDS indicates scores much lower than admission website or elsewhere. This makes me skeptical about how private schools report because I don’t observe the same trend. Private schools may be lying, but I can’t say for sure. This is just my hunch, even though ideally, I would like to believe they are being honest in the CDS.</p>