<p>The status on my app reads "summer offer." Does anyone know exactly what that means?</p>
<p>The website says this:</p>
<p>Congratulations! We are excited to have you join the freshman class beginning this summer and continuing into the fall, but are unable to offer you admission to begin this fall.</p>
<p>Does this mean I start my entire year at tech during the Summer? That seems like it would throw my schedule off.</p>
<p>It means that you can't start this fall but you can start this summer. It may thro off your schedule but at least you get to go there for school.</p>
<p>yea i got the same thing.. dont know whats gona happen</p>
<p>You can start in the Summer instead of the Fall, which is a pretty common practice. They make that offer to people with lower scores on the SAT, with a low GPA, or both so that they're not included in the "incoming freshman" average for Fall 2009. It's very common for public schools.</p>
<p>It's actually not a bad program. You get a semester head-start on all the other freshman with a reduced course-load summer. You get to rush the fraternities a semester early (if that's your sort of thing), and you get to meet other students in smaller classes. The campus is obviously much more dead, but there are still things to do.</p>
<p>The best part is that if you focus and get a good GPA in the Summer, you can start off the Fall recruiting season with an advantage over traditional freshman (that won't have a GPA in September / October). So if you're looking for an internship or co-op in Spring 2010 or Summer 2010 (and you should be), you have a distinct advantage if you do well in the Summer.</p>
<p>Honestly, if I was starting out as a Freshman, I would probably start in the Summer regardless because of that last point.</p>
<p>damn, wish i got a summer offer V_V</p>
<p>Mr. Burdell, you show up around the tech campus a lot, don't you? God, I swear I've heard your name like a million times. "this has been a g.p.b. production." lol. kidding of course. </p>
<p>so we start in the fall after we do the summer session? do we get a letter telling us all the info?</p>
<p>Schools only admit people they think will succeed at the school. If you're admitted, and fail out after a year (because you didn't have the proper math or science background as a high school student, for example), that's bad for the school and horrible for you. </p>
<p>If Tech didn't admit you, there was some reason, possibly beyond your control, that lead them to believe that you weren't a good fit. It's nothing against you, it's just them trying to avoid a bad situation for you and them, and it's for everyone's good.</p>
<p>thanks g.p.burdell, the way you put it, makes me feel better... so many kids at my school got rejected. I understand, my sat score wasnt were I wanted</p>
<p>I've read a little more into the offer, and it is actually a great thing. I was going to take classes over the Summer anyways so this doesn't change much! It just "forces" me to get a head start and prove myself to Tech.</p>
<p>well, i did get all Bs in math & science (and on a +/- scale, they'd all be B-'s), so that might be it.</p>
<p>Just thought my SATs would balance that out.</p>
<p>I thought Id get in with my As in all my maths(Pre-calc, Calculus, Statistics, Alegebra I and II) except for Geometry(B) and my As in my big engineering science classes (Physics and Chemistry) as well my test scores were high on their mid range so I thought I would get in.
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<p>I'm on campus all the time. If you want to talk to me directly, you can call the College of Engineering operator at 404.894.2300 and ask to be transferred to George Burdell. </p>
<p>Anyway, you'll want to wait for more information, but my understanding is that you just start in the Summer. So you take classes in the Summer, then continue on. Your Fall semester is just your second semester.</p>
<p>hey gthopeful cya there! lol. yeah i was actually kind of hoping for the summer offer because i think i'll need the head start at gt. do you know if we have to live on campus for the summer session?</p>
<p>In the olden days, Georgia Tech was very good about offering a variety of sequential courses starting at various quarters. This was to accomodate co-ops but benefitted everyone.</p>
<p>My D says the above does not make sense so I will offer examples until she gives up.</p>
<p>You could find a section of Organic Chemistry I every term because co-ops split work and school terms. You could schedule the first calculus course any term. (Hopefully you won't have to do it every term. LOL)</p>
<p>My point is that starting in the summer should not cause scheduling difficulities.Ga.Tech. is a large engineering school. It offers a variety of courses at various times during the year. It is much more accomodating to technically oriented students that the engineering school of a larger state university that has to split its attention and resources among various other academic endevours.</p>
<p>Here is something I found. Sounds like we should get something in the mail shortly though.</p>
<p>Georgia</a> Institute of Technology :: Undergraduate Admission :: Freshman Summer Acceptance Form</p>
<p>see you there pearljam!</p>
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My point is that starting in the summer should not cause scheduling difficulities.Ga.Tech. is a large engineering school. It offers a variety of courses at various times during the year.
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<p>GT does offer most of the big freshman courses (the calc's, chem's, phys' etc) during every semester. The problem is that these guys are starting late summer. </p>
<p>There are two summer semesters: a full semester (May to August) which has every class as usual (just slightly longer lectures), and a short semester (June to August) which has much fewer options. They're starting in the short semester. </p>
<p>They can only take two classes, and it looks like the options are CS, the two required English courses, and the legislative requirement. That CS course would be nice to get out of the way if you're a non-CS engineering major. But, then again, that class isn't the easiest, and if you can start off with a 4.0, that'll look very impressive in the Fall to recruiters.</p>
<p>Ah! My ancient tribal knowledge is deficient.</p>
<p>Yeah, that "semester" thing really throws me off sometimes. Just be happy that you weren't there during the quarter-to-semester conversion. That was a fun time.</p>
<p>Hey, I know someone that did the summer thing and was glad he did. Started out with a slower pace, ease into GT and it thriving and loving his freshman year. It is a good thing!</p>