<p>Need help in calculating my chances. I attend one of the most selective private schools in the country (40% National Merit Finalists), but am middle of my class with a 3.2 weighted GPA as it will be calculated by Tech. First try on SAT was 2110 (770 math), and I plan to retake. Eagle Scout, captain of varsity wrestling, etc. </p>
<p>Given the GPA, do I have a chance as an out-of-state applicant?</p>
<p>I think Tech really looks at the whole picture. You will have no chance if you dont try, so I think you should go for it!</p>
<p>I was in the same boat (though not nearly as drastic).</p>
<p>I go to a public school in California with 70 national merit finalists. More than 85% of these kids had an unweighted GPA under 3.6. It’s ridiculous, because a high achieving student demographic forces teachers to grade harder and separate the masses–however good they are. The average GPA from my school into UC Berkeley was 3.9 weighted, MIT was a 4.0. So its not like kids who don’t have a 4.4 GPA aren’t smart.</p>
<p>I have a 3.6 UW and 3.9 W gpa, 2300 SAT, 2350 SATII (Math IIC, Physics, Chem), All 5’s on AP’s (Bio, Physics, Chem, English Language, US History).</p>
<p>I got into Georgia Tech early admission, but didn’t get any PSP. And thus far I haven’t heard anything about Honors.</p>
<p>I think you’ll get into Tech; just get your SAT I up a bit, and do well on you’re SATII’s and submit them (even they don’t ask, it still shows up on Buzzport). But I hear you, its tough coming from a hard school, especially one with a competitive student body. Your UW GPA itself is a bit low, but I’m sure you’re in if your other stuff is more than competitive (or that’s what I think at least).</p>
<p>He has no chance with that GPA. I don’t know what you are talking about sat_gangsta. It’s unfortunate that GT puts so much weight on GPA to get in. It really is, because schools like ours don’t have inflation going on, so we get put at a MAJOR disadvantage. Schools really should put more emphasis on SAT/ACT. I will have either a GT Calculated (3.43 or 3.50) GPA after this year and likely a 2050 and GP says I basically have no shot, so you probably don’t have a shot either :(</p>
<p>I agreed with you and still do about the hard-grading good school working against your admission to Tech and that is shouldn’t. Particularly, students who are in good schools but have 3.5s and 2100s on the SAT are hurt by Tech’s admission policies. The importance of the GPA was pushed by the South Georgia bunch where there aren’t a lot of 2100s on the SAT (as there are in the circle around Atlanta).<br>
But there is another view. Go to the Texas GPA/SAT study where the top state universities admit by top 10% of the class only. GPA turns out to be a much better predictor of success than SAT. With the top 10% rule in Texas, you know if you put your kid in a good high school, you are flirting with sending your kid out of state to school if you want the best.</p>
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<p>Do you know that it does? Tech receives the school’s profile. A 3.2 is low, but if the school is 40% NMF, that should be taken into account. </p>
<p>Tech doesn’t admit strictly on a formula for exactly this reason.</p>
<p>Well GPA can be a much better predictor of success than SAT, but I believe my argument still holds up that because my school is harder, I’m at a huge disadvantage. If I went to some crappy inner-city school in Atlanta, I’d pull in a 4.0. It’d be a worse education, but I’d get the 4.0 and get into GT (assuming I still manage only a slightly worse SAT).</p>
<p>Burdell, I respect that you know more than I - so, no, I am not sure. All I see is who is getting in and who is being deferred.</p>