Chances at Georgia Tech!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Georgia Institute of Technology
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Hey, I was just wondering if anyone could give me some input on my chances at Georgia Tech next year.

SAT I: 2230/2400 and 1540/1600 (800 math, 740 reading, and 690 writing 10 essay). I also got a 221 on my PSAT so I’ll probably be at least a semifinalist (Pennsylvania)

Sat II’s: Math 2 in June and Physics or Chemistry in October

Unweighted GPA: Based on my school its a 3.96 but I got 3 B+'s so I think that’s wrong. I tried to convert it to a normal scale and I got something like 3.833

Weighted GPA: My school has a weird system so its like 4.97. On a system based out of 5( add .5 for honors and 1 for AP), I think I have a 4.35.

Class Rank: I wasn’t looking into competitive colleges as a freshman and sophomore so my class rank was 40/558 at the beginning of the this school year. It is now 17/558 after one semester and it will likely go up.

AP Classes: Due to scheduling errors, I was not able to take AP Chemistry this year but I was able to take AP Statistics. Next year I hope to take AP Chem AB, AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC, AP Micro, AP physics AB, and AP physics BC. My school has 4 classes one semester and 4 new ones the next semester.

EC’s: I know these are subjective so I will just list them.
-Robotics Club (FTC) since 10th grade. Co-Captain this year and most likely Captain next year
-Anchor Club (Community Service) no position

  • Peer Tutoring in Math since 10th grade
  • Rec soccer for 11 years
  • Habitat for Humanity (started this year)
  • Summer Job at local children’s amusement park (around 35 hrs/ week)
    I’m more involved in tutoring and robotics more than anything else and I really love to participate in them so I’ll probably talk about that in my essays.

Awards: no major awards except for maybe national merit scholar semi finalist.

Letters of Rec: Two of the three should be good. The other one might be generic.

Essays: I’ll try to put a lot of time in them but writing is my weakest point. I also can’t think of any ideas for the common app.

Prospective Major: Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

I’ll probably apply regular decision.

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You’re in if you apply EA. You probably will get in RD too, but I wouldn’t risk it because it’s significantly harder.

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Two things:

  1. male or female?
  2. also, any reason not to apply EA? As the other poster states, your chances would increase a good amount...and then you would have a good acceptance in hand..and be able to look at the programs like Grand Challenges....
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I’m a male and I know that may weaken my chances. Also, if I apply EA, they(the admissions committee) would only see the courses I’m taking but not the grades. I only took one AP so far so I want them to see my grades in 3 or 4 AP classes in my first semester senior year.

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Or does the admissions committee only care about the fact that you are taking AP classes?

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Do EA if for some reason they feel the need to see your first semester grades they will defer you. There is no down side for someone with your stats to do EA. If your GPA was a lot lower and you were trying to show an upward trend then maybe but that’s not the case for you.

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I know this doesn’t have anything to do with college chances, but why are yi taking both AP Calc AB and BC? They’re the same class except BC has more added on to it. Just pick one or the other or else you’ll just be learning the same material for the first couple months of the class.

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@2Ryan09 My school is weird because it requires you to take AB before BC. The BC class is all new concepts built onto the AB fundamentals. It must work because the AP Calc average score for both is 4.9

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I think you’re sure-in if you apply EA. good luck!