Anyone know when we’ll hear about the Provost scholarship? Will it be on the same day when we hear about the Presidential Scholarship?
@wannabeBlueDevil There are several ones, but they all consist of current students. I might make one unless there is a legit one with only admitted students!
For the admitted students, there is a groupchat! @EF431x
@laviedemoi99 link not working
So sorry! I’ll try to fix it!
Ugh, looks like I can’t! Y’all can PM though so I can add y’all asap!
@laviedemoi99 @wannabeBlueDevil There is a good Georgia Tech Class of 2021 Closed Facebook group with about 450 members and growing. Look for the one with the profile pic of Tech Tower. It was created similar to the open 2020 group from last year. Once you join, there is also an invitation to a groupme. @sramirez4026
https://www.facebook.com/groups/gt2021/
can you post the link to the group? i cant find it
Do you need a facebook account to get that groupme invitation?
@PAZ2017IND my OOSS also received the same message. Help with this anyone?
Link to the group chat: https://web. (groupme) .com/join_group/27978920/ZgpLW0
I heard 31400 kids applied. Wow no wonder it is so brutal there.
@moooss3 I’d email the admissions office. It may just be an error on their end.
Accepted
White male from FL
35 ACT
790 Math I
800 Math II
12 AP’s - all 4’s and 5’s
4.0 unweighted 4.6 weighted
Top 3% of class
Good EC’s
I wonder why I got rejected; I was confident about Tech.
Here is some info about my profile. Could somebody be so kind to evaluate this info and point out any shortcomings in my profile that could have led to my rejection? Thanks in advance!
International EA applicant; applied for undecided engg.
Academics:
- ACT: Composite 34 (Eng: 34; Math: 36; Reading: 32; Sci: 32)
- SAT II tests: Math Level 2 - 800; Physics - 800
- Did NOT do TOEFL
- Doing IB (International Baccalaureate); consistently scored 41/42 in semester examinations and ranked in the top 3% of my class
Achievements:
- Ranked in the top 10 in a cyber olympiad;
- Scored all A*s in IGCSE examinations;
- Won scholarship for academic excellence
EC’s:
- Completed online courses in the fields of cosmology, mechanics, game theory (from Georgia Tech itself!), object-oriented programming, comp sc. 101
- Participated in lots of Model UNs (also led the club in my school);
- Play drums and electronic keyboard (gave over 9 Trinity Guildhall grade exams in drums and keyboard; was in the school band),
- Participated and won in tons of quizzes and debates
- Wrote articles briefly for a national newspaper
- I don’t play a lot of sports, but I have won intra-school tournaments in badminton and swimming
Summers:
- Showed my research to professors at LIYSF
- Researched about electrical engineering at 3 firms
- Initiated waste management campaigns in 2 cities
Essays:
- I, and my counselor, loved my Common App essay.
- I feel like my supplementary essays were good. Spent a lot of time on them.
Again, thanks for any help in advance.
@qwer7y First, none of us can truly point to individual factors and say those were what got you rejected. None of us were in the room.
But to sort of answer your question, the biggest thing that stands out to me is that you’re an international applicant. It’s much harder for you than it is for domestic applicants. If you applied for financial aid, it’s even harder. Other than that, I can’t point to anything on your application which got you rejected.
College admissions just sucks sometimes 
Accepted
My son is OOS white male from NH. 1550 superscored SAT (800math). SAT 2 (math 2 800, Chem 800, us history 750) National Merit semi-finalist. No ACT. 4.0 UW GPA., ?valedictorian, national honor society, German honor society, All 5s on his APs…calculus AB (soph), calc BC (junior), US history, chemistry, physic mech calc based, He is doing 2 independent studies this year in diffferential equations and fluid mechanics and AP English lit and AP Stats, excellent recommendations, 3 season varsity athlete (XCountry, Hockey, Spring Track), volunteerism with Salvation Army and volunteer learn to play hockey coach (4years), public school, applied for aerospace, worked at a burger joint last summer, deferred EA to MIT and accepted to Purdue. Nothing that makes him demographically interesting…he did do a campus visit and met with the aerospace department and a general campus and engineering info session.
Good luck!
@qwer7y college admissions process is very unpredictable. Some colleges even deny people with perfect SAT. However, in your case, I might have some idea. considering that you did not take TOEFL and took IGCSE, I’m gonna guess that you are in the British education system and English is your first language (if it is not then that is the problem). My college counselor once told me that American colleges have a bias towards American transcript. If you are an international student, it is considerably better if you have an American transcript and takes SATs in the US (if you take it in Asia, there is a chance they will disregard your score just because of the number of cheating incidents that had happened). Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to go to school in the US.
I am an international Asian male applicant who just happens to go to school in the US. My stats are not as good as yours but thankfully I was accepted.
accepted
Academics:
- ACT: Composite 36 (Eng: 36; Math: 36; Reading: 35; Sci: 35)
- SAT II tests: Math Level 1- 790, US History- 720
- AP classes: Biology (4), Environmental Science (3), World History (4), US History (4), Lang (4)
- Senior Course Load: AP Physics, AP Lit, AP Calc, AP Stat, Dual Enrollment FL
Achievements:
- Nothing major
EC’s: - Varsity Tennis
- Math/Science Club President and Team Captain
- Student Body Vice president
- Tri-M Vice President
- Classical Piano
- Orchestra
- Teach art to elementary school kids
Summers:
- Governors Honors Program
- Sickle Cell Research at local University
Essays:
- Common App: 8/10
- Supplemental Essays (1)-8/10
-(2) 5/10 - Counselor Rec- probably very generic
Question for those accepted: How many of you got in taking Calc AB but not Calc BC?