How competitive is admittance to architecture majors at these schools?
You have a similar SAT & AP scores as my D21 (she had a higher GPA). She was deferred/denied at UGA (but we’re OOS and from a competitive HS that had a large number of applicants to UGA last year). Their admission requirements have been steadily creeping upward. Since you’re in-state and from a highly ranked high school, you should be able to see how you would do at your GA in-states via Naviance or a similar tool.
I believe GT would be a reach for architecture and ND/UT very high reaches.
Virginia Tech & Clemson have architecture programs but I’m guessing they are also competitive to get into, making them reaches.
Your chances at Georgia Tech are low, even instate. Your rank is just not competitive enough for that school, and the GPA and standardized scores are low too. Do you have any arts, sports, research, summer programs, awards, or leadership to add to the extracurriculars? GT is likely to look for all of those things, as it values a diversified portfolio. Even UGA is looking like a long shot, IMHO, as it gets tougher to get in there every year, and applicants with stronger profiles were rejected last year.
You need to add quite a few safeties and realistic matches. GSU, KS work for instate. Going beyond the Georgia border you could consider most Florida state schools, USC, NC State, UDel, possibly UMD as a reach and Pitt as a low reach.
The University of Georgia is a match school for you assuming that you took the most rigorous courses offered at your high school. UGA focuses on applicant’s GPA & course rigor,then on GPA.
Georgia Tech is a reach school for you. While admission evaluation is much more holistic at Georgia Tech than at UGA, your SAT of 1350 is well below the 25th% of 1390 at Georgia Tech.
Because Notre Dame & Texas consider class rank, these are high reach schools for you.
My son has similar stats in Texas and isn’t applying to UT because it’s too hard to get into. He could get CAP’d and attend another system school for a year and then enroll at UT-Austin but not sure if that applies to architecture majors. Notre Dame will be even more challenging because they look for very strong leadership and extracurriculars in addition to academics and is 80% Catholic.
Besides Georgia as a top target, is Clemson a possibility? I understand that they have a very good architecture program and it’s a highly ranked school.
Other reaches would be NC State and VA Tech. Matches would be the better architecture program between Alabama and Auburn.
NC State definitely a reach for OOS (maybe a high reach for architecture). VT would also probably be at least a moderate reach for architecture (D21’s roommate is in the program - it’s very rigorous).
UGA is definitely trying rise up into the UVA/UNC range as far as public university admission difficulty. however they seem to know their in-state high schools really well, so maybe yours being #1 will give you a bump.
Recently, and possibly ongoing, Virginia Tech had a housing shortage for students. If I recall correctly, several local motels were rented out as dorm space.
I feel like Clemson’s environment is not for me but I may consider applying to VA Tech and Auburn. I haven’t considered applying to OOS safety and match schools because of the expensive tuition but since there aren’t many schools in GA with architecture programs I may have to consider.
Uga does not give an edge to UGA. it’s a very hard admit. Why I said no. Solid student and no impossible but she has it listed as likely and I’d put it more as reach but not a high reach which GT would be.
The rank is in the 3rd quartile and while it’s a top HS that’s also a red flag.
Look at the SEC schools auburn, Utk. UK. Mississippi State, LSU. I’ll throw in Arizona, UCF and FAU, UNCC, WVU, Miami of Ohio and Cincinnati.
They all have merit and would be match or safety. If you want to stay in state it’s Kennesaw. But still try UGA.
Just letting you know it’s a reach.
If cost an issue definitely don’t apply to UT Austin or Va Tech. UTA the highest reach on your list but even if you could get in you couldn’t afford.
You’re a fine student with a great future but you need to cover yourself with other schools and many give merit. Good luck.
I know they over enrolled 3 or 4 years ago and that was true, but I’m not aware of any students having to live in hotels since then. They just opened a brand new dorm this year.
They only guarantee on-campus housing for freshmen. Most move off campus after freshman year and there is plenty of off campus housing available. One sure way to guarantee housing after freshman year is to join an LLC
I think a lot of schools were short because they put aside rooms for covid. But then, at schools like Bama that are growing, they’re also renting nearby apartment complexes as dorms.
It seems like certain “target” schools are continuing to over enroll. Even non-target schools like U of Tampa are having issues.
Colleges either can’t seem to get their #s just right…or perhaps they don’t want to.
Better to overenroll than under I suppose might be the thinking.