<p>Georgia Tech is my #1 school, so of course I really want to get in! I am coming out-of-state (CT), so I know it will be tough, but I loved the campus when I visited it a few weeks ago, so I know it's the place for me. </p>
<p>The question I am asking is there any difference between early notification versus regular decision? Like does early notification increase your chances of getting in (kind of like early action) compared to regular decision? If it doesn't, is there any advantage of applying early notification? </p>
<p>Thanks in advance, and sorry if this question has been asked before!</p>
<p>I see you also told Berkeley that they are your top choice ;)</p>
<p>First of all, applying early won’t hurt you, so unless there’s another school to which you’re applying early decision or single-choice early action, there’s no reason not to apply.</p>
<p>From an application standpoint, your SAT is potentially competitive for the President’s Scholarship (800/730 M/CR, right?), which you can only earn if you apply early. You you have a very high GPA, you might want to apply early specifically for this scholarship program. But overall, your scores look good, and if your GPA matches them, you’ll get in either early or regular, so it won’t matter.</p>
<p>LOL G.P. Burdell, I decided that Berkeley is not after my college counselor said it’s too hard to get in out of state. GT is a bit easier to be honest, and has a really good engineering program. Also, it’s a little bit closer to home, so traveling expenses can get cut by a little bit. I still do love Berkeley, but I think GT is a better option for me. I was changing my mind a lot (Berkeley, Rensselaer, Georgia Tech, and Illinois), but now I know GT is my top choice.</p>
<p>Also, thanks for your answer, I didn’t know that you can only get the President’s Scholarship if you apply early! My SAT is 800 M, 730 CR, 740 W. I probably won’t get it because my GPA isn’t really that good (last time on Naviance it was a 3.6337).</p>
<p>No problem, I was just messing with you. UIUC and GT are very similar schools all around. RPI is more of a regional school. Berkeley… I don’t know what to say about them. It’s an excellent school but it takes a certain kind of person to go to school there. The last time I visited there, I sat around the airport terminal waiting for my flight and had to listen to 25 Berkeley students sing folk songs in a circle while not wearing shoes and stinking of marijuana. To each his own, I suppose.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, that GPA will probably take you out of contention for the PSP, but you should still have no problem with admissions, assuming you have reasonable EC’s and AP courses. That 800 Math is a very good sign. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>That must have been a very interesting experience at the airport lol.</p>
<p>And yeah, the GPA is pretty poor for the President’s Scholarship. To get into the honors program, is it kind of like applying to the President’s Scholarship (grades, SAT, EC’s, etc, etc.)? I was thinking about applying to that too, but now as I think about it, my GPA might be too bad to even consider it. Also, GT does have their own way of calculating GPA right? Is it like a 3.00 for B-,B,B+ and a 4.00 for A-,A,A+? </p>
<p>As of now, I really do hope I get in, as I said the campus was great! I think Georgia Tech is a little bit underrated considering the fact it’s #4 Engineering School according to USNews, I think it’s also #4 as a graduate school. That’s higher than Caltech! That’s why I would be happy just to get accepted. Thanks for the advice !</p>
<p>HP is night and day different from PS. GPA and test scores really don’t matter for HP.</p>
<p>Oh I didn’t know that about the honors program, thanks for the info. I guess I’ll look into it on their website to see what it takes to qualify.</p>
<p>In engineering circles, GT is very well known and very well respected as one of the best schools in the world. Outside of engineering it’s obviously not well known. The business school is flying up the rankings, but when you’re a public school (Tech is a Top 10 public) and not very diversified (with regards to the majors offered, not student body), it’s hard to move in the rankings.</p>
<p>Maybe the new president might nudge GT to be a little more diversified. What major or two or three would make the most sense, G.P., in your opinion?</p>
<p>To add, that is? :-)</p>
<p>Personally, I’d love to see Tech add a medical school and partially take over administration of Grady. I haven’t studied the situation in depth, but on the surface, it seems like a win-win situation and fits with the mission of the school. To that you could add a public health college. I also wouldn’t mind a school of Natural Resources, which also fits well with the goal of he Institute (sustainability). Finally, it’s outside of the scope of the Institute’s Mission Statement, but I wouldn’t mind an education school, particularly one focusing on math and science education. </p>
<p>Of course, I don’t expect any of that to be seriously considered by the Board of Regents. They’ve traditionally taken a “one per state” approach to most academics, which politically makes sense. People in Augusta would be very unhappy if Atlanta received a medical school. </p>
<p>The Medical College of Georgia has the public medical school, so they won’t allow Tech to create a competitor (even if there is need). UGA and GSU have Public Health and Education schools, so Tech can’t have either. UGA has an Ecology school, so Tech can’t have one.</p>
<p>True, the engineering school is tremendous, but I haven’t heard much else about any other schools. I hope Tech does start offering more majors with good professors to start shooting up in the rankings. I think Berkeley is going to be rated even higher in this upcoming 2010 USNews National College Rankings. Berkeley is very good at many different fields: medicine, social sciences, engineering, etc. I think GT will start to follow in the years to come.</p>
<p>By the way, how would you compare a school like Purdue versus GT in the engineering aspect?</p>
<p>UGA is now getting a piece of MCG. Not cool.</p>
<p>The Medical College of Georgia and the University of Georgia are embarking on a bold plan to address the physician workforce issues of the State of Georgia, the creation of a new four year regional campus, located at the University of Georgia, and supported by MCG under its LCME accreditation. This new campus, scheduled to matriculate its first class in the Fall of 2010, will initially reside on the UGA campus in Athens. In 2011, the program is expected to move to the state of the art facilities of the Navy Supply Corps School, just a few miles from the UGA campus, which is being transferred to UGA following its scheduled closing as a military base.</p>
<p>i would definately recommend you try and go early. i did and got in (although im in state). its also nice that they have a conservative view on early action in that they dont reject many people. so at worst you could be deferred to regular and then most definately accepted. but i think your chances are pretty high either way.</p>
<p>good luck! maybe ill see you here next year.</p>
<p>Thanks mellofello27, if I apply early to GT, can I send my SAT scores later if I want to retake them?</p>
<p>So UGA gets a Medical School, Law School, and MBA Program. Meanwhile, GT has to beg to get an MBA program in 2003. I know the justification is that GT is already a “top” school, so they have to show favoritism to UGA, but just look at the BOR makeup:</p>
<p>—USG Schools—
UGA Grads: 9
GT Grads: 4</p>
<p>—Non USG Schools—
Florida Grad: 1
Emory Grad: 1
Columbia Grad: 1
Spelman Grad: 1
Moorehouse Grads: 1</p>
<p>For the good of higher education in the state of Georgia, the system needs to split like in many other states: a UGA system and a GT system.</p>
<p>Then again, to make any head-way, you’d have to get a governor elected that isn’t in the “good ol boy” network. Could you imagine someone running for, and winning, a state-wide election in GA without a UGA bumper sticker?</p>
<p>Earlier in the thread, it was asked about GPA Caluclation at GT. Anybody knows the answer?</p>
<p>yes you can send extra SAT scores and stuff afterwards</p>