<p>im applying early action and sending my application in tomorrow</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
UW Numerical Avg: 82, W GPA (5.0 Scale): 4.12</p>
<p>ACT: 30 composite, 31 Math, 35 English, English/Writing (still waiting for them to grade it)</p>
<p>AP Exams:
European History - 5
AB Calculus - 5
Physics C Mech - 5</p>
<p>Senior Classes:
AP BC Calc
AP US gov (semester)
(honors) Into to Philosophy & Ethics
AP Physics C E&M
Photography (semester) & Digital Design (semester)
AP Statistcs
Advanced Honors Computer Science with Java Emphasis
(honors) The Monomyth in Literature (semester)
(honors) English 12 (semester)</p>
<p>EC: ( in no order )
Piano - 11 years; concert pianist
Swimming - 9 years; varsity all through high school; county champions last 2 years
Taekwondo - 3 years
Soccer - 11 years; JV 11, V 12
Model UN & Youth Leg all through high school
Racquetball - 3 years, founder and pres of racquetball club at school
200+ hours of volunteer work from various things including 2 trips to India
Math Club/Team all through high school - secretary of club
Devol society - robotics programming thing; founder and president</p>
<p>Essay: Topic #1 - why i love computers would be a simple way to put it</p>
<p>My main concern is my academic performance. I know I have good course rigor, but the fact is my 7-10th grades were all C's and B's. My 11nth grade was almost all A's with a B or two scattered in from history and english. and right now i have all high A's in all my classes but they're not going to see that or anything... back to the main point, do you guys think my chances of getting in are low medium or high? I appreciate anyone's actually taking the time to read through this and answer</p>
<p>You seem to have a good chance being that GT accepts 60% of its applicants. Your credentials seem strong enough to put you in the running.</p>
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<p>If 5 people with 2400 SAT’s and 4.0 UWGPA’s apply to a school and all are accepted, does that make the school an easy admit because it has a 100% admission rate?</p>
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<p>Please post each class that you’ve taken and the grade received. We can use that to calculate your GPA for GT.</p>
<p>I will say that admission for Indians is very difficult. Last year, there was a poster from India with a 2350 SAT + 3.85 UWGPA who was waitlisted.</p>
<p>I did not mean that it would be easy to get in because of the large acceptance rate. I was simply saying that he stood a chance in that large percentage.</p>
<p>Not really if his GPA converts the way I think it will.</p>
<p>Perhaps you should refrain from commenting unless you know what you’re talking about.</p>
<p>No need for the attitude, I was being optimistic. He cant change his GPA from those years, but he def has a chance.</p>
<p>Optimistic can have negative repercussions.</p>
<p>Let’s say that I’m interested in a few schools: Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Clemson, and South Carolina. If you tell me “you seem to have a good chance” at Georgia Tech, I’d probably drop Clemson and South Carolina from my application pool and would just apply to GT as a match and VT as a safety. On the other hand, if you say “GT is a reach”, then I apply to GT as a reach, VT as a reach/match, Clemson as a match, and South Carolina as a safety. So if you’re “optimistic” and tell me that GT is a match when it’s really a reach, now I’m not applying to any safeties and there’s a good chance I don’t get into VT or GT and end up at community college. See why that’s a bad idea?</p>
<p>You will probably get deferred to regular. If you have good grades in all your first semester senior year courses, I think you have a good chance because Tech likes to see improvement.</p>
<p>Your grades are really going to hurt your chances because Tech weights them pretty heavily. 1-10 1 being definitely NOT in and 10 definitely in…id say a 5 (For EA)</p>
<p>banjo, why do you think being Indian matters?</p>
<p>Being international is what mattered. There’s clearly a difference in admissions for international students and domestic students.</p>
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<p>Last year Georgia Tech admitted 6976 out of 13553 applicants for a 51.47% acceptance rate. Before people were taken off the wait-list the acceptance rate was below 50% and will likely decrease even further this year.</p>
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<p>It is important to keep in mind that Tech does look at essays and involvement in addition to scores. Many people with extremely high and/or perfect scores apply to Tech and not all of them get in. This has nothing to do with ones race or ethnicity.</p>
<p>^Yep, I had a friend was a 36 ACT and a 3.7 ish GPA not get accepted because he didn’t spend any time on his essay or application.</p>
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<p>We’ll see. I think last year was an exceptional year and this year the number of admissions will retreat a little.</p>
<p>Regardless, the admissions rate of a school is not a good measure of the quality of that school. Even the best public schools will have a higher admissions rate than private schools. That’s because even the very top students will use their in-state flagship as a financial safety, and the in-state school will accept them knowing that there is very little chance of admission. While a private school might reject those “very top students” for being over qualified and unlikely to enroll, public schools have to answer to politicians and tax payers, so they can’t necessarily do that.</p>
<p>In addition, engineering schools tend to have higher acceptance rates than other schools. Students that have narrowed their major of interest to engineering have generally done more research than other students - they know the admissions criteria for schools and apply where they are a match. “I’m a pretty good student, I think I’ll apply to Stanford” happens all the time. “I’m a pretty good student, I think I’ll apply to Carnegie Mellon” is much less common.</p>