Decision: Accepted
Intended Major: Computer Science
State (if domestic applicant): Georgia
Country (if international applicant):
SAT I (breakdown): 1440 (670 R, 770 M)
ACT : Didn’t send
SAT II: Didn’t send
Unweighted GPA: 91.6/100
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geography (3), Statistics(4), Calculus AB(4), CS Principles(4), Microeconomics(4), Macroeconomics(4)
Senior Year Course Load: Physics C (Mechanics & E/M), AP CSA, AP Calculus BC, 4th year CS (new course at school, we learn C# and databases)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
-Gladiator Tech (Leader of IC): 2 years/pretty much the tech support for my school
-NHS: 2 years
-Varsity Soccer: 2 years (put 1 year since application deadline was before senior year tryouts)
-Key Club (Treasurer): 1 year
-FBLA: 2 years
-Club Soccer (Captain): 2 years
-Varsity Cross Country: 1 year
Job/Work Experience:
-Intern for IT Department for the County School Board during the summer prior to senior year
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Common App: 9/10 – Wrote about how I didn’t want to fulfill society’s preconception of my identity based upon my family’s backgrounds and my ethnicity and how I wanted to control of how I live my life while under the pressure or friends and family alike
Why GA Tech 8/10 - Wrote about my passions for Cybersecurity in CS and how GT would provide a wonderful opportunity to explore my passions, both inside and outside the classroom
Supp: 9/10 - Wrote about how my life changed from living in middle-class suburbia to going to school in a rough and more urban environment (went to a school where it was almost 90% minority).
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 10/10 – My CS teacher who really helped me develop from a computer hobbyist into a full-fledged computer programmer. I’m also one of a few in his new class for 4th year CS students and he absolutely adores me
Counselor Rec: 5/10 – Don’t really talk to my counselor too much
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Black/African American
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: middle class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, first generation attending 4 year university
Personal life circumstances/unexpected events? none
Reflection:
Strengths: Essays and recommendations
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: I’m a unique person beyond my test scores and am captivated by my field of study
Weaknesses: Grades
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I showed a lot of interest towards my major and had some good ECs
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted to my safety w/ scholarship (Clemson), but I’m waiting for decisions from Duke, Harvard (gotta shoot my shot), Columbia, USC, UC Berkeley, UW, UT Austin
Final Comments: Not sure if i’m planning on attending yet since UT is my dream school and waiting on decision, but GT is definitely top 3. Despite this, I’m super excited to have been accepted and Congratulations to everyone else who was accepted and Good Luck to anyone waiting on a decision!
best wishes to him.