<p>Transfer Student
Major: Management
GPA: 3.05
Math/Science GPA: 3.5</p>
<p>I dunno if this will make any difference, but my freshman year my gpa was only a 2.65, and i pulled it all the way up to a 3.05 in one year.</p>
<p>That’s a very low GPA for transfer. What school are you coming out of?</p>
<p>georgia southern university. im starting to wish i had gone to a technical school because i would have been able to get much better grades. im very capable of doing difficult work, it just took a year to get all the partying out of my system to do it. im applying for spring 2010, but if i get some good grades this fall that gpa could be up to a 3.1-3.15 for summer transfer.</p>
<p>oh and i am an in state student and im a legacy (although i dont know if they even take that into consideration). plus i am very good friends with an alumni who donates untold amounts of money to tech (a football gate is named after him), so would his word to admissions help me at all?</p>
<p>You might be OK - GT is pretty lenient with GaSouthern transfers for political reasons.</p>
<p>A bigger issue is whether or not you should transfer. If you’re academically a 3.0 student at GaSouthern, you’ll be a < 2.5 student at GaTech. The classes are much more difficult, the professors expect more, and the other students are much better. Do you really want to put yourself in a position where you come out of GaTech at the bottom of the class and can’t find a job?</p>
<p>I’m asking this a little rhetorically - if there’s a good reason your GPA is what it is at Southern (e.g. major illness, death in the family, etc.), then that’s a different situation. But if you don’t have a reason, you need to think long and hard about transferring. Many students say “well, I’ll just try harder”, but that doesn’t cut it at Tech.</p>
<p>I’ve worked with many transfer students from Southern, and I’ve seen it time and time again. Students with <3.5 GPAs from Southern transfer in and their GT GPA drops to ~2.5. The students I’ve seen that were successful were the 3.7+ students from Southern.</p>
<p>I don’t want to scare you - I’m just giving you the reality of the situation. Just because you can get into Tech doesn’t mean you necessarily should go there. I would much rather come out of UGA or GSU with a 3.5 GPA than Tech with a 2.5.</p>
<p>well i only have a 3.05 because my freshman year i came into school thinking i was at a party school so i could party hard and school would come second. i ended up with a 2.5. then over last summer i saw some of my friends getting co-ops and starting to get ahead and i realized i was wasting my time at school if i was partying all the time. so this last year i put a difficult courseload on my plate and i got a 3.5. i’m a very smart student, i was just lacking motivation, but now i’m doing what it takes and i’m doing well. i have a brother at tech and i know what it’s like, so i know there’s a difficult road ahead, but i’m confident in my ability to do well there. it’s pretty hard to get that through to the admissions board as a transfer student though. hopefully they can see my progression through the past two years and it will give them an idea of where i am at now.</p>