<p>don’t let gp get u down…just gotta keep believin’!!! That’s kind of his thing:) gpa should help alot.</p>
<p>How am I getting someone “down”? I gave an honest opinion about how to write an essay.</p>
<p>@ eddyatl4evr:</p>
<p>There is nothing wrong with being optimistic, but I take a strong aversion to your apparently biased portrayal of GP, who is one of the most experienced members of this forum and happens to be quite well versed on Tech. In the future, it would be more beneficial to those who come to these boards for advice if you pointed out specific points of disagreement and supplemented these points with sound reasoning to provide support to your views, rather than making mere assertions that it is someones “thing” to put people down, which happens to be patently false in this case. I might also add that GP has never told someone to “stop believing.” With that said, being optimistic and being disillusioned are different things. There are instances where it is in the best interest of the OP to be strongly encouraged to look at options that may be more suitable to their present situation. I would argue that to ignore such advice as merely being put down, rather than as a realistic assessment of ones case, is both naive and potentially harmful to their future success should they choose to continue along a path that is not likely to be successful to the exclusion of more attainable alternatives.</p>
<p>At the beginning of my senior year, I knew one thing for sure: English was not my strongest subject . But even though I lacked grammar skills, I excelled at physics, chemistry, and math. As I started AP calculus, AP chemistry, and AP physics, I fell in love with the way that these subjects could make me feel so frustrated, yet teach me so much in the process. The best part to me about these subjects is how they all connect in certain ways. Physics and calculus have an obvious connection, but my real interest is how calculus and chemistry connect in certain topics such as kinetics. My passion for physics, calculus, and chemistry is the main reason I would like to attend the Georgia institute of Technology. I am very fortunate to have a top teir engineering school located in state where I can pursue my chosen major, chemical engineering, while being close to home. I admire the idea of studying on a campus that showcases the beauty of skyscrapers, whithout the feeling of being in the middle of a large city.</p>
<p>One of my main reasons for wanting to attend Georgia Tech is the rigor of the curriculum. In my classes in high school, some of the students were able to get by with minimal effort. I know that this is not the case at Georgia Tech and I am prepared to work extremely hard in order to pursue my major and get the most out of my education. Another reason Georgia Tech appeals to me is because of the co op program.
I also would like to participate in a co op in order to gain work experience in my field before graduating .</p>
<p>thank you G.P. Burdell for your honest opinion. btw, really cool name!</p>
<p>this is a very rough version…im going to make a lot of additions and subtractions and make it flow better.its really just a few bits and pieces if anyone has an opinion, please post on how i can approve.</p>
<p>i hate the SAT, im at the top of my class in Calculus Bc, but i cant score above a 680 on the math.</p>
<p>“Wow your school grades aren’t reflected at all in your SAT. I guess you work hard or your school is really easy.” </p>
<p>just to make things clear, my school is not really easy. Especially Calculus. My teacher said he has never had someone in his class make an A who has not received a 5 on the BC exam. Actually,in his career of teaching calc, he has had two ppl who got As get 2s due to bubbling errors.
And plenty of people from my school got accepted to Tech who got Bs in AP chemistry ( one is actually majoring in chemical engineering). Also, at my school, AP physics B is considered a harder class then Physics C, just due to the grading systems of each teacher. </p>
<p>Just wanted to make that clear, because I work really hard to get my grades.</p>
<p>guys, i’m just kidding. none of my comments are supposed to hurt anyone’s feelings. if u know me, u know that i like to joke around. No need to get so defensive and write essays defending one another and criticizing me. seriously, people on these forums need to lighten up a bit…</p>
<p>wow…just wow…</p>
<p>Well Eddy, admission to college is a life-defining moment, so I can understand why people would take this stuff seriously.</p>
<p>well, i don’t think my comments will greatly affect someone’s chances of admission or any person’s here on this forum for that matter:)</p>
<p>I already submitted my info, but I forget to mention that I couldn’t take Physics C because it was the same time as AP chem. I took Physics B but I know Tech does not really consider it because it is not calculus based. I really did want to take physics C but it was unfortunate they were both at the same time. What should I do?</p>
<p>You did the best you could. You won’t get AP credit for Physics 2211, but that’s not the end of the world, and you’re more prepared to take that class at Tech than a student with no AP Physics at all. Meanwhile, just make sure your counselor knows that you took the most difficult classes that you could take (i.e. that you couldn’t take Chem + Physics C).</p>
<p>Ya, but I forget to mention that in my essay so Im worried Tech won’t find out. Honestly, I will probably learn more in Physics B anyway and be better prepared electricty/mag because at my school Physics C is pretty much a joke class…(if you do all your work and get a zero on every test you end up with an 84), while the physics B teacher is a lot harder.</p>
<p>Hey GP (I apologize for hijacking this thread in advance for one post ilyssa, but it doesn’t merit another thread), I am the Junior with a 3.5 in HS (honors and AP), our grade is NOT inflated at all, except we do receive weight from being in honors/AP ONLY COUNTED for Class rank (31/225). Does that give me a much better shot, compared to a kid who’s got a 3.60 with honors/AP inflation (as MANY schools in the state of Georgia do, I hear)?</p>
<p>When you apply, GT takes the high school inflation out, and inflates using it’s own formula, so it shouldn’t matter.</p>
<p>The AP classes would help that 3.6 kid a lot more than a normal 3.5, because of course rigor and the fact that APs are given an extra .5.</p>
<p>No, GP, I’m pretty sure most Georgia schools inflate grades as their unweighted GPA, even though it is slightly weighted. For instance, if you get an A- in AP Chem, teachers are required to make the final grade an A+.</p>
<p>I think he means both students took AP classes:</p>
<p>Student A: 3.50 GPA, 32 classes, 5 AP, his school does not weight
Student B: 3.65 GPA, 32 classes, 5 AP, his school gives +1 to AP</p>
<p>What Tech does is this:</p>
<p>Student A: 3.50 + 5/32*0.5 = 3.57 GT GPA
Student B: 3.65 - 5/32 * 1 + 5/32 * 0.5 = 3.57 GT GPA</p>
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<p>Schools report when this is done, and the grades are adjusted. GT has been admitting students for 125 years. They know how it works.</p>
<p>If a school tried to sneak something in like that, and Tech didn’t find it, it would either show up in class rank, students would apply with a >4.0 GPA, or (as a last resort), Tech would track students coming from that school with certain GPAs and know that School X’s 3.65 perform about the same as School Y’s 3.50 students in their first year at Tech.</p>
<p>Tech does track performance by school (especially in Georgia where they have plenty of data for each school), state, and city.</p>
<p>so, if we are in a school were generally a lot of students are accepted to Tech, they know the rigor the courses based on the grades people have received in them?</p>
<p>They know the projected performance based on your school and GPA. If you’re applying with a 3.5 GPA and they pull the records of the last three students from your high school with a 3.5 GPA, if all three graduated with honors that’s a good thing and you’re more likely to be accepted than if all three were force dropped based on performance.</p>
<p>If there was a high school trying to game the system by giving out high grades inconsistent with other high schools, that school’s students would have performed relatively poorly at Tech and Tech would require a higher GPA from that school.</p>
<p>Oh, I’m sorry I misread.</p>
<p>What about fairly large high schools(ie. mine) that have close to no students going off to highly ranked colleges. Occasionally someone will get into Sewanee(and that is seen as a major accomplishment) but I doubt many have applied to or much less got into Georgia Tech.</p>
<p>I can pretty much forget about Tech, my previous years grades were slightly lower than I anticipated :(. If I have a really solid finish to this year, I’m looking at a 3.43. Now I don’t know if anybody in my CT HS has ever gone to Tech, but I can assure you it’s rigorous, and I’d have a 3.7/3.8 in the Honors/still easy courses at my local public school. Does that buy me anymore credibility? Right now I think I’m really basically looking at a 3.4 :\ (700-750ish math, 700-750 writing, 600 reading [but just now attempting to get it up] OR 31/32 ACT)</p>
<p>I’m kind of depressed since this is my dream school, but I guess a crappier school like Purdue or UIUC will be fun/good too.</p>