Chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Georgia Institute of Technology
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<p>Hello, everyone. This fall I am applying to GA Tech (my first choice, actually) and I would like to know what people here think my chances of getting in are.</p>

<pre><code>I moved to the US from Russia after my freshman year (so by graduation I will have 3 years in the US High school and 1 in Russian), some of my russian grades a hurt (different education system), and my sophomore year the only Honors class I took was math (easily got 99). Next year, I got out of the ESL (people who moved to the US take this class instead of lit, usually people are stuck in this class for 2-4 years). My junior year I took Honors Lit (got 89, damn it), Honors Pre-Calc (100), AP US History (84), Honors Anatomy (94-95), Web-Design(97) and Video-Production (95). Next year I am taking AP Calc 2, AP Gov/Econ, AP Physics, AP Psychology, AP Lit, and Chorus (yeah, funny, I just sincerely want to try it out). My GPA is about 3.75-3.9. My ranking is not that good, but it is only because it ranks by using grades from classes such as art (got B in it, because I took it in russia) and Phys Ed.(B), and what hurts me most are my classes from Russia.
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<p>SAT Reasoning:
Cumulative: 1990 (I retake it again in October)
Math: 750
Writing: 640
Critical Reading: 600 (I know, I need to improve it)
SAT II:
Math: 790 (just needed 1 more problem right, damn)
US History: 740</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
One of the top math team members (#2 out of 16-17 members)
Chess club member
200+ community service hours back from Russia
Udacity Certificate (online courses from Stanford Prof Sebastian Thrun and VA Tech Prof David Evans) for Computer Science (planning to get this by the end of July)
Organizing own Math Tournament as a senior project
Fluent in Python and HTML coding
Contributed to some small Open-Source projects on GitHub
[possible] Maybe (if by the time of my college application I will figure out this beast called Java), I will release some apps for Android Market
I am bilingual (Russian/English)</p>

<p>(Also, I was a member of a Photography Club and Drama club, but I don't want to list it on the app, because I did not actually do anything there or contributed in any way)</p>

<p>Also, if it helps, I am a white male and a Georgia resident, so I apply as an in-state student</p>

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<p>Is anyone here? I still hope to hear some opinions</p>

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<p>Found a mistake in my original post. When I said ‘200+ community service hours’, I obviously meant ‘200+ community volunteering hours’</p>

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<p>hmm you do have a chance, but if the GT looks at your russian classes, i wouldn’t know what to say of your resume. And if you’re interested in engineering at GT, then you have to boost your SAT to at least 2100.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the honest opinion, tigerash. You mentioned that I need to boost my SAT (which I am going to do) for engineering, but they say that they don’t consider your major for admission purposes. Also, I’ve read somewhere on this forum that if you are an international student, they kinda close their eyes on low writing/reading SAT scores, and people with CR/W 450-500 and math 700+ got admitted. Is it for international students only, or for anyone who did not go through the whole american high school? Also, according to their GPA calculator, my current GA Tech GPA is about 3.89, which is not that bad.</p>

<p>P.S. just for clarification. Only russian classes I got B for are Phys. Ed., Physical Science, Math and Art, while I got A’s for russian classes too (Bio, Russian 1 and 2, Geography, World History, and others) and 2 of them aren’t even considered for GA Tech GPA.</p>

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<p>Also, I just found my ACT scores. They are not super-great, but math section is the highest again, and reading is slightly higher than on SAT (which counts towards GT superscore). Does it even make sense to report my ACT scores?</p>

<p>1st take:
Comp: 28
Math: 29
English: 29
Reading: 28
Science: 25
Combined English/Writing: 27</p>

<p>2nd take:
Comp: 28
Math: 30
English: 25
Reading: 26
Science: 32
Combined English/Writing: 24</p>