<p>Make sure that you have some safety and match schools.</p>
<p>What concerns me is that even if you manage to get in (and I don't know that you will), Georgia Tech has a well deserved reputation as being a place in which students work very hard on their academics. Your carrying a 2.5 probably indicates that there's a lot about math and science you haven't yet learned, so if you go there, you may be one of the weaker members of your class, which could mean that you'd have to study extra hard there to catch up.</p>
<p>I think that you need to concentrate a great deal on getting top grades in a very academically rigorous, math/science intensive high school curriculum. Your ECs aren't important. Your grades, curriculum and scores are going to be the main determinants of whether you get into Ga. Tech and survive there.</p>
<p>Virtually all public college focus their admissions decisions on stats: grades, scores, class rank, and curriculum. ECs aren't that important. Race also may not be particularly important.</p>
<p>I strongly suggest that you take a senior year math class. You'll definitely have to take math in college, so you need to keep those skills up.</p>
<p>If you haven't yet taken AP physics, you should take that, not AP bio even if you want to be a biomedical engineer.</p>
<p>If you haven't taken calculus yet, you need to take that. Don't opt for the easier AP statistics. If you're planning on engineering, you need AP calculus.</p>
<p>Also take the time to call or e-mail Ga. Tech's admissions office to ask them what senior year curriculum they'd recommend for you. What I suggest is based on what S was told by colleges when he was planning to major in engineering.</p>