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Hi, I’m a half-Korean, half-white in-state male student attending a public high school in southern Georgia and I wanted to see other people’s opinion of my stats.

Major: Mathematics
SAT I (breakdown): 1490 (790M/700CR) I’m retaking this definitely
Unweighted GPA: 3.2/4.0
Weighted GPA: 3.5/4.0 I know my GPA is beloooooow average for Georgia Tech standards, but I still have hope. My freshman year killed me but my junior year I got all As. I’m also taking some MOWR classes over the summer to help this.

AP: AP Calculus AB, AP Physics I, APES, APUSH

Senior Year Course Load: I plan to take AP Chemistry, AP Psychology, AP Government, AP Statistics. ENG 1101, and two band classes (I play flute and oboe, but I’m going to also learn clarinet). I also plan to take AP Calculus BC online through Georgia virtual school because AP Calc AB is the highest math class my school offers.

Awards: GHP Semi-finalist (Math), MathCON national competition qualifier, All South Region Honor Band (flute), Highest Pre-calulus average award, Highest AP Calculus AB average award

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Math Team (captain for 3 years), Science Olympiad, Quizbowl, Envirothon (will be captain this year), Marching Band (Flute section leader this year),

Volunteer/Community service: My school has a program where participants bring in non-perishable goods, bag them, and give them to students in need. I’ve done this every week my junior year and I plan to do it all my senior year. Our school also has a Student Ambassadors team (#2 in the state this previous year), but everyone else is welcome to tag along with them and get community service as well.

Essays: I feel like my main essay will be very good. I have an English major helping me work on it.

Recommendations: I can get an excellent recommendation from one of my teachers. She has three daughters at Georgia Tech already.

Questions: Should I take the SAT II for math? I could definitely get close to an 800 easily.
Also, my mother went to college in South Korea and got a degree. Would that make me not first-generation? Because no one else in my family went to college.

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I think if either parent went to college anywhere in the world, you are not first generation college.

Yes, take two SAT subject exams, one in your strongest science and math 2. They are not required, but helpful to show you learned the material. As I remember GT gives CREDIT for chemistry SAT subject exam scores, but look that up.

You do not mention your AP scores, but the higher the better.

Very good idea to take BC Calculus, it will repeat and review a lot of what you know, this is the single most important class of your senior year to succeed at Georgia Tech, the more calculus you understand , the better. You want to practice math all of your senior year to stay on top of your game there.

apply by Oct 15 for best shot at getting in.

Math is a wonderful major, you will enjoy studying this at GT. Good luck.

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I didn’t take the APUSH exam. But I made a 5 on AP Calc and APES. 4 on AP Physics 1.