EC: Varsity Swimming, Eagle Scout, NHS, High Adventure camping (weeks in the wilderness)
Ranked 20 of 650 students at my public school. Also attend the county’s Governor’s School which is a junior/senior program in partnership with George Mason University. So I take 4 college classes in the morning each semester, then drive to my home high school for 2 AP classes. Really great program focused on STEM. My George Mason college classes included 4 semesters of Physics, 2 semesters of computer science, 4 semesters of calculus (including MV and linear algebra) and a research projected of two years with a college professor.
Accepted!
Chemical Engineering
ACT: 35- one sitting
SAT: Math 2- 800; BioM- 780
GPA: 4.0 UW/5.4 W
OOS Asian
Essays decent- showed how my Extracurriculars connected what I wanted to do at GTech; Recs- IDK
EC’s: Research, Science Olympiad, Other Service/Leadership Stuff
Program/Major:Computer Science
SAT I (breakdown): 1570 (math 800, verbal 770)
SAT II: math II 800, physics 800
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: school does not weight
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/444
AP (place score in parenthesis): US (5), World (5), BC Calc (5), Comp (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Psych, AP CS, AP Bio, honors physiology,lit & comp, calc 3, diff EQ
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMSF, two publications
State (if domestic applicant): OOS Missouri
School Type: large public
Ethnicity: didn’t list
Gender: male
Income Bracket: too much for financial aid
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): no
Accepted!! Surprisingly
Biomedical Engineering
ACT-32
UW GPA- 3.85/4
Leadership, unique extra curriculars, hardest curriculum at school, dual enrollment at college
Following are some past statistics on the Georgia Tech waitlist. You can see that the number of wait-listed students admitted fluctuates from year to year.
According to the Georgia Tech Common Data Sets (http://www.irp.gatech.edu/publications/common-data-set/):
For the Class of 2020:
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list - 3,830
Number accepting a place on the waiting list - 2,267
Number of wait-listed students admitted - 470
For the Class of 2019:
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list - 3,397
Number accepting a place on the waiting list - 2,031
Number of wait-listed students admitted - 38
For the Class of 2018:
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list - 3,900
Number accepting a place on the waiting list - 2,150
Number of wait-listed students admitted - 174
Rejected : Scheller Business School
International/ Out Of state
Male
GPA 3.84/4 unweighted 4.6/5 Weighted
ACT 34
Top 5% of class
Alright Essays
Great ECs
Great letters of rec.
7 APs All 5s
Acceptances: UT - Austin McCombs, TAMU Honors, RPI,
Waitlist Northwestern Univ.
I dont get it at all. I beat all the average stats. I didnt even get a waitlist. I’ve had very solid ECs and an internship at a pharma VC firm. Did I get the flat out rejection because I applied as an OOS/International student?
Here are more sobering stats which may help those on the waitlist make a decision:
According to the FB posting, for the class of 2021, there were 31,464 applications at a 23% admit rate = 7,237 accepted.
Last year’s freshman class size was 2,800.
The national average for students accepting offers (i.e., yield) is 33.6%.
According the GT Admissions office, the ideal undergraduate population is approximately 60% from Georgia, 30% from other states, and 10% international students.
Waitlisted for International Affairs
In State
Caucasian Male
GPA 3.79/4 Unweighted 4.1/5 Weighted
Superscore ACT 33 (E: 34, M: 32, R:30, S: 34, Writing: 21)
Top 9% of class
Essays were subpar and super liberal biased
Chorus, football, 5 different National Honor Societies, Key Club, 200+ Service Hours, 6 leadership positions (4 in and 2 out of school), and work experience at a day care for 3 years
Rec. Letter from a GT Alum
13 AP’s at graduation (not a single 5 on the exams lol)
Not too broken up about it, I’m going to Alabama anyway.
Accepted!
Aerospace Engineering
SAT: 1450/1600
ACT: Did not take
GPA: 3.80uw/4.01w
OOS
Rank: 14/106
Essays were good; I’m not that great of a writer, but they were about how I started a software company and what I learned from programming.
Recs: One great one, one average one
EC’s: developed various iOS apps, varsity swimming, varsity math team, vex robotics team captain(ranked 52 in the world -out of 20,000), competing in programming competitions, oneironautics, NHS, and I play lead guitar in a band
Volunteer work: math and reading comprehension tutoring, ballot clerk in town and national elections, working in a section of my local government dealing with town-wide communication and leadership.
Work Experience: Co-owner of a software company, summer job as a part-time cashier.