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<p>Also, the fact that we superscore helps up that score. They take your highest SAT, highest ACT scores, and make a new score with them, even combining exam scores from the two exams. Those highest scores are the ones reported to USNews, CB, and others. Other schools will only do it with one exam and have lower results in the process.</p>
<p>Literally, all colleges except UC use superscore. It is not as if Ga Tech superscore SAT but everybody else uses regular SAT score.</p>
<p>Ga Tech is getting very competitive in the last cycle due to financial crisis. Freshman Applicants were up 15% and transfer student applicants were up 30%. </p>
<p>Also, 40+% is outstanding, as somebody else mentioned. School like Cornell University only has 47% yield rate. </p>
<p>Forgetting whether Ga Tech got a lot of wishful applicants (as runningcircle1 suggested and gthopeful rejects), according to Ga Tech, the student who submitted deposits (25% to 75% quartile) is 1280 to 1430 with average of 1350, 1210 is definitely not getting done.</p>
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<p>About the whole fluent thing, Burdell is quite wrong. You can say you are fluent in HTML and CSS. Even though they aren’t programming languadges in the sense that Java or C are, they are definatly languadges of a kind, and you can definatly be “fluent” in them, and this is a common way to say you can use HTML and CSS. “Fluent” isn’t a “loaded word” in the software biz- it just means that you can use a languadge- of any kind, be it a programming languadge, or a scripting languadge. Nobody will think you’re foolish for saying you’re fluent in HTML. </p>
<p>Source: My dad’s a software enigneer, some of my best friends are majoring in CS, and I myself have a good amount of computer and programming experience. </p>
<p>I’m not sure if I would include HTML knowledge on a college application as an EC unless you have worked designing websites (freelance or at a place) simply because unless you have something to demonstrate that website-making takes up a bunch of your time it isn’t exactly relevent as an EC. I would maybe mention it in passing in an essay, say if you were writing about how you like computers, but not as an EC. Same goes with the C++.</p>
<p>The thing about ebay should definatly be somewhere on your application. It shows that you have enterpreneurship, witch colleges value a lot. I’d try to soup it up a little bit by maybe saying that you “ran your own buisness” selling things on ebay. Its an accurate enough statment, and sounds better than just “I make money off of ebay”</p>
<p>Oh, and one more thing : Despite what G.P burdell says, admissions people are not fluent in techinchal computer science terms. Don’t throw around computer jargon in your essays and expect them to know what you are talking about. You should always write your essays assuming that the reader won’t be very familiar with any specific fields you are writing about, and will need you explain things</p>
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<p>Management doesn’t admit that many students (2/3rds of MGT graduates transfer into the program). Also, MGT admits with the same criteria as engineering - the admissions process is major blind. Finally, MGT is now a first tier business school, ranked as high as Emory. It’s no joke anymore.</p>
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<p>When looking at SAT scores, you also have to consider that the CR score is deflated by the number of non-native foreign students that are accepted / enroll. If you’re a US resident, the bottom quartile on CR is probably 30+ points higher. </p>
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<p>Remember high school when you would write an essay and your English teacher would mark up the paper with the MLA notes? You know, when you would need to capitalize a word, the teacher would underline the letter, when you needed to remove a comma, she would circle the comma and put a line through it, when you needed to add words, she would put a caret (^) in between the words and write above, etc.</p>
<p>Those markups are, in fact, a mark up language. The original English paper that you wrote was in a language. It’s acceptable to say that you’re fluent in English, but if you walked around listing your fluency on your transcript as “English, Spanish, Proofreader Markup”, you’d be laughed at.</p>
<p>The same thing goes for HTML. Stating that you’re fluent in it is a dead give away that you don’t understand the difference between a language (English) and a markup language (proofreading). That’s a mistake that only a novice would make.</p>
<p>With a markup language, there’s no “fluent, conversational, intermediate, novice” notation like in a language. There’s either knowing the markup language or not. You can list that you can use HTML, but you shouldn’t list that you’re fluent in it. </p>
<p>Think about what you gain by saying that you’re “fluent” in the “language” of HTML over saying that you know how to use HTML: nothing. What can you lose: everything. I’ve hired thousands of people, and if I saw that comment, I would immediately move on from your resume, no matter how impressive it is, otherwise.</p>
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<p>There’s a lot more to running a business than just making money. Did you keep a set a books? Did you register with the necessary government agencies, etc. It’s not just a matter of “souping it up a little bit” by saying it’s a business. If I search for your name on the Secretary of State’s website, will you name come up? How about your personal website? Could your parents be fined if you claim to have run a home business? (some HOA’s and zoning districts prohibit that). </p>
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<p>They are not programmers and experts, but they certainly do understand the terms as well as you or I. You should write your essays assuming minimal knowledge, but you can’t just throw a lie on your application and try to snowball them. That doesn’t work (though, in my experience many high school graduates are incredibly arrogant and try it anyway).</p>
<p>Ok, how about we just let the “fluent” issue go? I really wasn’t even thinking when I threw that term in there, and it wouldn’t be something I would do on a college application. It seems like it’s knocking this thread off course, so, for the sake of the thread, I’ll just say that I’ll make it a habit to not use the term unless referring to programming languages, whether that’s a legitimate problem or not.</p>
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<p>Are you including the President’s Scholarship in your statement above or not? My son is hoping to qualify for the President’s Scholarship, so any insight you could provide on what the process involves (ie, how they screen the applicants) and what they look for in the applicants would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>Also, one more question. No recommendation letters are “required” for the application this year. That said, would it be useful for my son to get “recommendation letters” from his extracurricular supervisors, to help strengthen his EC profile? I am looking at it from the perspective of: as long as it doesn’t hurt his chances, it would be good to do as it would either not make any difference or it could help him. What do you think - would it potentially hurt his chances because it ticked off the admissions counselors?</p>
<p>So is it much harder for an OOS applicant to get accepted? I’m from RI and GaTech is my top choice (along with UMaryland).</p>
<p>Please see my questions above.</p>
<p>I forgot to mention that my son is out-of-state.</p>