Im planning on applying to georgia tech (EA) this coming october. I am an instate resident, a girl (white, well middle eastern technically), have a 4.3 GPA (scaled on a 5.0 scale), ranked 9/700, 12 APs (by the end of this year), 34 ACT and 1450 SAT, and my extracurricular activities mainly focus around bio/biomed. For example, i’m very involved with biology olympiad and did an internship at the biomedical engineering department at one of the best hospitals in atlanta. I am also in the Georgia Tech distance calculus program this year (taking Math 1554).
I have read countless blogs and articles about georgia tech admitting by major and how they have a very unbalanced male to female ratio. I want to know if i would have a higher chance of getting in if i applied to an engineering major (ie Environmental or BME) or biology.
I think you’ll get in anyway, but there are tons of female BME majors at Tech. If you really do not have a preference, I would go with environmental. Again, though, I doubt that you will need it.
As a biology major at Tech, I don’t feel the gender difference as much as other majors. I will admit that the engineering majors do have a gender gap of more males than females, but that doesn’t stop girls from doing well here. There are usually more males than females in engineering purely because more males apply. I know the EA deadline is up but I just want to assure you that as long as you go for what you love, you will have a great time at GA Tech.
Sorry i know this ended a while ago, but do you think being a girl applying as a math major would increase my chances? Also do you think the ratio is crazy as a math major?
There are nearly 40% girls at Gatech now, so don’t worry too much about gender ratios. Major in what yo want to major in. Math will be a very tough major at Gatech, but truly one of the best math programs in the world. If you want to be an actuary, or mathematician with a PhD, you are going to work almost exclusively with MEN, so
its a good idea to attend a school with plenty of men and learn how to get along with them. It makes no real sense to worry about gender ratios, given the male domination of the workforce in engineering, either. Every young woman who wants a science, engineering or math major, will be working with men for the most part. Maybe in 50 years that will change a bit.