<p>D just received an e-mail from admissions, partly copied below:</p>
<p>President's Scholarship Program Fall Football Celebration!</p>
<p>Georgia Tech's President's Scholarship Program is inviting you and one family member to join us at a fall football game! We want to congratulate you on your high school achievements and introduce you to Georgia Tech and the President's Scholarship Program.</p>
<p>The game will take place on Saturday, November 17th on Georgia Tech's campus. The Yellow Jackets will be taking on the Duke University Blue Devils!</p>
<p>Additionally, a President's Scholarship Program get-together will take place on campus 3 hours prior to the start of the game. This event will allow you to speak with current students and staff to learn more about our program and Georgia Tech in general.</p>
<p>To make the most of your visit to Tech, campus tours are also available on Friday November 16th at 10am and 1pm. You can sign up for a campus tour at admission.gatech.edu/visits
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<p>Please register below for the football game to reserve your two complementary tickets - spots will fill up quickly! After you have registered we will send you a detailed schedule of the day's events.</p>
<p>Register Now!</p>
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<p>Does anyone know, do they do this every year? Is this an indication that she has made the first cut for scholarship consideration?</p>
<p>I got it too. I have no experience, but it definitely seems like a good sign. I’d wager anyone who gets it is basically guaranteed admission, if not Presidential semifinalist.</p>
<p>I remember reading about this on CC last year or in 2010, but I can’t find a thread that mentions it. My son did not get one. Dwang, are you female?</p>
<p>Clearly it is a positive sign of sorts. Guaranteed admission? Possibly. Automatic PS semifinalist? Maybe not. Here’s a chance to show you are responsive, sharp, and interested in GT. Ignore the invite/don’t reply/reply after deadline? Not good. Go to the game and spend the whole time texting, or only talking to your parent or some other friend you arrange to meet there? Not good. Call it presidential after the invite says President’s? Not good. Ask intelligent questions? Good move. Take an interest in your hosts for the game and any other candidates there? Good move. Dress in white, gold, and blue/black? Good move. I’m amazed how many people don’t know how to start and carry on conversations at this level. Show that you have those skills, or are at least interested in who you are meeting. Take the time to learn the names of the people you are seated with, even if you have to ask a couple times. That at least shows an interest. You’ll be glad you did at the end of the day when other candidates have no idea who they have been sitting with for the last few hours. Good luck!</p>
<p>I got this email too, as did a friend of mine who also applied. Is there a way to inform them that I cannot attend? I don’t want to make it seem like I ignored the email, but I truly cannot attend.</p>
<p>The event is full and they are running a waiting list. We can’t go either, already visiting another place that weekend. I e-mailed the organizer, can’t remember the address, but it is on the page where you respond to the invite. We planned to visit during our spring break, when they have classes. We’d love to go sooner, but it’s so hard, especially when OOS. I see on their PSP page, that there will be another PS recruiting weekend, as they call it, in Dec. with a concert. Probably D has a chamber music concert that weekend. Something going on every day it seems.</p>
<p>Yeah I got this and immediately hoped that it was a good sign for admissions haha. Does anyone know approximately how many people get invited to this thing? Is it relatively exclusive? I don’t really care that much about the scholarship (HOPE), but I desperately want to get in.</p>
<p>Also, props to GT for centering an event around something actually fun, like a college football game. To a 17 year old male, that’s, oh I don’t know, about 1000x more interesting than going to a freaking National Merit Semifinalist luncheon at a school lol.</p>
<p>It was basically a jazzed up visit, with the main bonus the ‘special’ feeling of being specifically invited, as you could tell that the kids there were pretty legit, probably everyone there was a NMSF. Some…goofballs were there lol but the people looked and acted more normal than I expected to be honest haha, considering the type of person whom GT tends to attract. I love college football, so the free tickets were awesome. </p>
<p>I personally saw it as GT’s way of telling their higher-tier applicants “Hey, you’re probably going to get in, here’s an excuse to come to the campus and hang out with some of GT’s best current students (some PS winners were there) and other great future GT students (the people who would go to the thing are the ones most likely to attend if/when admitted), so even if you don’t get the PS hopefully this event could sway you from going anywhere else, because you guys are good enough that we want you.” Or at least, I hope that they were basically telling us that we’re going to get accepted haha.</p>
<p>Overall, it was a great event if you live near Atlanta. But there was a kid from Massachusetts there, coming that far would’ve been a huge waste of time and money.</p>
Dwang, are you female?</p>