Where are you seeing info that GT is moving to a hybrid model for Fall 2021?
Theyâre not moving to a hybrid model across the board. They just have hybrid and remote classes, and many entering freshmen who are registering now are finding out they must take 1 or 2. All current students were sent an email in early July saying that they could re-register due to changes in course designations. Prior to July 1 basically everything was residential. All is listed in the course catalog.
No idea what the change is, whether it is lack of space, concerns about Covid, or trying to create classes that internationals can take remotely.
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Will they allow the international students take all online classes I wonder
Thanks for the clarification.
Per https://housing.gatech.edu/covid-19-changes-faqs on campus residences will still have visitor restrictions this fall.
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While my kids never had any asynchronous classes (pre-recorded) other than one who took a summer school Physics class after freshman year at UW-Milwaukee online, youâre absolutely right. That was a big complaint in one of the parent groups Iâm in. No way to ask questions, etc. No engagement. My biggest complaint about being on the teacher side of remote learning is that kids were able to keep their cameras off, thus allowing them for the most part to be dis-engaged. They were often there since this was high school, but if you called on them, sometimes it took awhile for a response because they were actually engaged in some other activity, not to mention other distractions going on in their homes or surroundings. My daughter even told me of a friend who went to get her hair done during a remote class. Just turned her camera off as if she were in the lecture, then left. And this was in an Honors class at a top tier program while the professor was there teaching.
I think there are going to be issues everywhere and based on all the reasons you said. Covid, internationals not being able to come hence making accommodations, and over crowding. Purdue apparently doesnât have enough dorm space for 1200 students. Theyâve told all the freshmen that are not in Learning Communities that they will be randomizing who gets assigned to a dorm and who they will put in rooms of 10 (converted study lounges) and apartments 2-4 miles off campus. No clue if theyâve already registered, but we already knew they way overenrolled and it does not appear there has been any summer melt at some of these schools. I guess the final sign will be when tuition bills are paid. We have are first one due on August 7 then I think the last two are the end of August.
Why do you think there has not been much summer melt? Just curious. Iâm hearing many schools are over enrolled
Because all the schools didnât know how things would work and over-admitted lots of students. Even after summer melt, they are still over-enrolled.
Because not a single college counselor knew what they were talking about this past year and weâre guessing. And when kids were ending up on many waitlists they then thought kids would be pulled from many waitlists but as time went by that didnât happen either. Then the excuse was that thousand of kids have double dipped their deposits. Still havenât seen that. Some kids wonât show up of course. And maybe the continued covid outbreaks may affect some schools but those requiring vaccines are in areas with higher vaccination rates anyway so theyâre probably good to go.
Orientation and registration is happening or finished for freshmen at all 3 schools my kids attend. Many kids are on waitlists for classes or didnât get theirs but the gap year request deadline has passed so the only kids not coming now are ones who walk away from their deposits and just donât show up and probably ruin their chances of ever coming to those schools. At some point by now schools probably have a sense of how many kids those are based on who hasnât registered or returned a housing contract or signed up for orientation. The âexpertsâ once again are silent. I would hate to be a rising hs senior and am so glad I donât have to go through the unknown again this year wirh a kid. I would tune out every college counselor out there if I did.
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in state. major: public policy. i turned down offer tho. hope others can get in.
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Waitlist for international students has closed. Just got the email 15min ago
What does that mean
Received an email asking for intent to stay or to cancel the waitlist application. This is the same as one we received in May, I think⊠this is for instate student
OOS son also received it.
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My son says no action if you want to stay on waitlist
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Same message
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I wonder if there will be much more movement. He read the email to me quickly but it sounded like the waitlist might close after the end of July. I could have heard it wrong.
My daughter received same, OOS.
they still have thousands on the waitlist in the event that a handful of spots open up⊠what are the odds anyone would switch this late? the way GTECH has handled admissions this year has been an absolute joke
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No international students will be admitted from the waitlist
There are more than a few Georgia residents to commit to schools like Georgia State or KSU with the plan to transfer ASAP. They are not invested in those schools but they are just a means to an end. If you want to be an engineer, live in Georgia, and can get free tuition at Georgia Tech there are lots of people who are willing to spend a year somewhere else to do that. Georgia Tech also has pathways that can expedite the process and guarantee admission above a certain GPA.Those are likely the kids that would accept an offer at this stage.
For those already admitted to and committed to strong universities, I agree. The first year dorms at Georgia Tech are almost full right now, with only the least desirable dorm available, and the only people who have selected dorms I think are those who committed before May 1 or who found a roommate who did. If you go to the available rooms page there are only a handful left, and I would think that they would not admit more people than they can house intentionally.
Off-campus housing would be difficult to find at this time and comes at midtown Atlanta prices.
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