<p>I know GT has a 7:3 ratio - Does this make it 'easier' on the girls to get in? How about in the competitve male dominating majors like comp. engineering/science?</p>
<p>For GT, If ones GPA and one SAT is not "up to par" with the average, Is there still a chance of acceptance? I heard its "not that hard" getting into GT - The hard part is "staying in after they start weeding students out." - To be honest, I've heard that only 10% of the freshman class ends up graduating.</p>
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<p>You inferred the exact wrong thing from the ratio. The reason why the ratio is so low is because GT does NOT preferentially admit females unlike certain other "institute of technology" schools.</p>
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<p>An average is an average. This implies around 50% of students scored below the average but still got in. The 25% and 75% scores are a bit more telling. The 25% scores are more suggestive of people that got in on special circumstances like being an athlete.</p>
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<p>This is patently false. While only about 30-40% of people graduate in 4 years, around 80% of people graduate within 6 years, which is about all the people who are gonna graduate. One reason the 4 year graduation rate is so low is because GT has an unusually strong co-op program. Everyone I know that is still in undergrad at GT is graduating in 4.5 years as a result of this.</p>
<p>Here are the stats:</p>
<p>Try 78% graduating within six years, and the rates are clearly improving over time. Last year, 95% of women came back as sophomores. Women are actually retained better and graduate sooner than the men (and they have higher GPAs) on average.</p>
<p>If you work hard and stay on task, and plan your schedules correctly, you can graduate in 4 years. I know plenty of seniors in their 4th and final year who will graduate in the spring.</p>
<p>I also know some 5th years, and some of them were involved with the co-op program. And I also know some 5th years who just plain are in their 5th year lol</p>
<p>From my understanding it is very easy to get in. I know plenty of people in state last year who admitted with like 3.1 - 3.3 GPA's. This mainly happens because Tech has like a 40% dropout rate. Alot of people who plan on going to tech have decided to just reach for emory and apply to UGA.</p>
<p>40% dropout rate? Look at the stats linked above. Within 6 years, 78% had graduated . . . so your numbers are a little off.</p>
<p>I think the retention rate is 92%, so uh, no, 40% don't drop out. Also, the GPAs of people accepted vary from person to person. For example, I have a friend who had a 4.3 high school GPA, got accepted into Emory, UGA, and GSU, but rejected from Tech. It depends on the application, essay, SAT scores, etc., not just the GPA.</p>
<p>my brother's friend who had good grades/sat applied to UGA as his #1 and GT as safe school. He got rejected from GT and wait listed at UGA (eventually got in)</p>
<p>That's weird Vblick. GT has notoriously low standards for how good the program is. A lot of people I know got rejected from UFlorida but accepted to GT. Perhaps in recent years (this was in '03) the competition has become tougher.</p>
<p>that is weird vblick. I'm here now and I was rejected from clemson and uga.</p>
<p>This was 4 yrs ago. It seems like over the past 6 yrs UGA has become harder and harder to get into because of the # of applicants. I actually have a friend, a UGA alumni, who thinks UGA is academically as rigorous as GT is since UGAs admission requirements are pretty close to techs.</p>
<p>UGA's middle 50% on CR+M: 1130-1310.
<a href="http://www.uga.edu/irp/cds/ugacds07.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.uga.edu/irp/cds/ugacds07.pdf</a></p>
<p>GT's? 1240 - 1420
<a href="http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Common_Data_Set_archives/Completed%20CDS2007_2008.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Common_Data_Set_archives/Completed%20CDS2007_2008.pdf</a></p>
<p>@vblick - what do admission requirements have to do with how hard the school actually is? GT engineering is way way way harder than how easy it is to actually get in.</p>
<p>feez- i agree. I have no idea why someone would think this way.</p>
<p>uga looks much more at extracurricular activites and GPA. Tech primarily looks at SAT because no matter how hard working you are you need to be smart to stay in this school.</p>
<p>It's varied, for some people they look at SAT more than others. I got an 1190 on my SAT and I'm here at Tech, yet I got rejected from Maryland (my home school). My extracurriculars were amazing.</p>
<p>^probably because MD has so many applicants.</p>