<p>My son received an email directing him to buzzport so that he may check his status online. However, we already received a packet back in late December with his admittance letter, etc. We have also already paid the admit fee as well as put a deposit down for housing. </p>
<p>He wants to get onto buzzport to see what it is about, but his password has expired and for some reason the place to click to activate the gt account is not doing anything. I am not sure what the email means, or what to tell him other than call tomorrow. </p>
<p>Any thoughts?</p>
<p>My S also received same email. I think GT is changing from oscar to buzzport. If you can’t get on in the morning then call GT to get more info. That’s what we’ll do.</p>
<p>System was down for maintenance earlier for a couple of hours.
If you haven’t been able to access it yet, Just call tomorrow.</p>
<p>No, they are not changing. Both systems have existed in parallel for several years.</p>
<p>OSCAR is the official system that contains all academic information. From Buzzport, you can log into OSCAR.</p>
<p>The point of Buzzport was to have one log into to various systems on campus (OSCAR, Student Organization sites, Message Boards, School Calendars, Campus events, etc). The problem is that none of the other systems (everything except OSCAR) exist. So, all you can do in Buzzport is log into OSCAR, which makes it redundant with the direct OSCAR log in.</p>
<p>If you can log into OSCAR, you’re going to get the exact same information as you would from Buzzport.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.passport.gatech.edu%5B/url%5D”>http://www.passport.gatech.edu</a></p>
<p>you can reset the password here. it takes a loooong time, unless it was just really slow for me</p>
<p>Well we were finally able to get on. I am still not sure why the email was sent. His status is still “accepted” and everything looks fine. It did take him quite a while to get on, change his password and view his stats, balthaczar, so you aren’t alone. </p>
<p>colmomto2, apparently it seems to be a verification of any prior decision, if one had already been made.</p>