<p>I’m wondering if GT will tell you your scholorship+financial aid money when they give you the decision bc money is playing a major role in my decision.</p>
<p>^ me too…</p>
<p>According to a post on GT’s admissions official fan page on Facebook, there are things you don’t have to worry about so much.</p>
<p>Let me clear up a couple of issues raised by previous comments:
- Georgia Tech is not changing the size of the incoming class for this fall. We will be enrolling a class of around 2600 students, which is the same class size we enrolled last fall. We made the same number of admission offers this year as we have in previous years; however, given the increase in the number of applications received this year, we did see a decrease in our overall admit rate. </p>
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<li><p>Georgia Tech, like most other universities, does make wait list offers to applicants. However, in order to secure a place on our wait list, students will have to accept the wait list offer. We will not know the final number of students on our wait list until after April 15, because students have until that time to accept their place on the wait list. Wait list numbers change from year to year, and we do not know at this time how many students will be on our final wait list or how many students will ultimately be accepted from the wait list. </p></li>
<li><p>The Office of Undergraduate Admission does not participate in discussions on College Confidential. We are aware that there are many people (including some who claim to be affiliated with Georgia Tech) who use College Confidential to post information, which is not always accurate. Please note that we will post our final admission statistics through Facebook and our main admission website.</p></li>
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<p>Hopefully they don’t mean me. I’ve never claimed to be affiliated with the office of undergraduate admissions. Although some of their “undergraduate bloggers” do post here.</p>
<p>I think what your intended major is plays a big part seeing you will be applying to a completely different colleges within Georgia Tech…For example, I had it easier seeing I applied to Ivan College of Liberal Arts instead of the Engineering School which is comparably more competitive.</p>
<p>Hopefully they don’t mean me. I’ve never claimed to be affiliated with the office of undergraduate admissions. Although some of their “undergraduate bloggers” do post here.</p>
<p>I was wondering if that was referring to you too. but you have just answered questions and given info.</p>
<p>No, I’ve claimed that I work for the Institute, which is true. I’ve never claimed that I’ve worked in Admissions or have any inside knowledge about undergraduate admissions (which I don’t). </p>
<p>There’s a reason I avoid the graduate boards but have no problem wildly speculating with the rest of you on undergraduate admissions.</p>
<p>edit: Not to insinuate that I know anything about the vast majority of the graduate admissions processes, which are department-based.</p>
<p>Besides, if the Admissions Office wanted me to stop posting, all they’d have to do is PM.</p>
<p>They were talking about me - I found the comment. The quote they responded to even states that it was speculation, which they apparently didn’t appreciate.</p>
<p>Realistically, it’s their own fault. The Institute released a plan (regardless of it’s likelihood of implementation) explicitly listing a 25% decrease in the the freshman class, and that plan was widely reported on the news including national news (at least CNN). As far as I know, that plan was never officially rebutted, so it should have been expected there would be speculation. In fact, they still haven’t commented on how they would implement this plan if it the Board of Regents required them to do so.</p>
<p>This is a paragraph from March 4 student newspaper Technique</p>
<p>The report also suggested that the Institute could reduce admissions by 20 percent to meet the budget shortfall. However, this was confirmed not to be the case.</p>
<p>We officially got word yesterday that they werent going to do that. The freshman class will be the same as the last four years. They put it on the table, and once they realized what kind of financial impact that would have, especially on housing, they decided not to, said Rick Clark, the director for undergraduate admissions.</p>
<p>Why didn’t they post that on their website or on Facebook? A one paragraph comment in a newspaper that only students read isn’t really the best method to get the word out to non-students.</p>
<p>They probably don’t want information like that to get too big or out there, it has the potential to discourage people from applying there because of the lower chance of being accepted after such a law would be enacted. Plus I’m guessing the citizens of the state might not be happy, as a majority of those spaces cut would probably be in state students…</p>
<p>But enough about idle semantics…</p>
<p>How is everyone else doing in Wait-List Nation?</p>
<p>No one else?</p>
<p>Ok then…</p>
<p>I’m still wondering how many students have been waitlisted this year</p>
<p>As am I…</p>
<p>Is anyone appealing if they don’t get off the wait-list?</p>
<p>Maybe? It depends…</p>
<p>Just got the rejection letter.
There’s a wait list?
It wasn’t mentioned in the letter. :(</p>
<p>They either offer you the wait list or not. You don’t get to choose. Sorry :(</p>
<p>They’ve started to take people from the wait list. Just making a note here.</p>