Welcome to an amazing class! #gt19 stats: 27,264 total apps, 31% admitted. Avgs: SAT 1480 (2185 w/ writing), ACT 32, 10 AP/IB/DE courses.
Congrats!
Ya still not sure how I got in then. Right at average stats but was deferred ea accepted rd
Since they check only English and math ACT scores,I had a 34 average, but I was still waitlisted 
@Dhruv97 are you an international student? I think they let in too many ea and a lot with great stats were wait listed rd
@TimJH52 technically yes, I’m a Canadian citizen but go to school in TN, USA
Ya I saw a guy with a 2300ish get waitlisted rd and he was international so I can only believe they used up too many international spots
Not sure how I feel about this. My son was deferred EA, and now waitlisted RD. We live instate and GT is really the only option for engineering. He had a 34 ACT, 3.8 GPA, and 8-10 AP’s. He’s gotten into some great OOS schools with excellent engineering programs, but the scholarship dollars just aren’t there (except Auburn and I’m still trying to sell that!). It looks like he’ll end up at UGA Honors College. What bothers me is that Tech is taking OOS and international students that have lower credentials, and turning away a smart, mature kid in their own backyard that really wants to go there and has few, if any, instate options for engineering. If Tech was private, then all power to them. But they’re a public school funded by taxpayers (like me). This rubs me the wrong way.
Wow Im instate and my stats weren’t that good and I got in. Well good luck to you and your son. I’ve had many people in my family attend auburn and everyone loves it. It’s a beautiful campus and a good school.
Is this EA and RD averaged out? The EA acceptance rate was 45%, so RD must have been low. I remember only a couple years ago GT acceptance rate was in the 60s. Crazy.
Got rejected… but I accepted from UC Davis and waitlisted from WUSTL
@Momslate - I so understand. My son was GT bound based on an academic career of hard work, GPA and scores but he was deferred and ultimately denied when lower scores, lower gpas, less ec’s from less rigorous schools are getting admitted. He too was accepted to higher engineering schools but the only good scholarships came from UA and AU. He’s at Auburn and can’t imagine being anywhere else, now. There are a lot of high stat engineering students from Georgia at Auburn - UGA Honors College was a nice offer (and they threw on a $2500 annual leadership scholarship out of the blue it just showed up on his account)…however, it’s not really the place to go for Engineering - at least not now. Some kids are going to UGA or UNG and then transferring to GT but my son wanted the entire Freshman college experience along with marching band so he chose Auburn and boy is it a fit. He couldn’t be happier and we couldn’t be happier for him. We are not conspiracy theorist but it’s very hard for families like ours not to believe that UGA decided to commit to engineering only so that GT could say that Georgia students have other engineering options. My son went on that Honors tour - and when he asked about Engineering, the tour leader had heard about it. How is that a commitment to engineering?
Good luck to you - it does get easier over time for the kids because they will find their home. Parents on the other hand have a difficult time realizing it is our free tuition that is lost.
@momslate Did you apply to Alabama? Too late now, but those stats would have earned automatic full tuition scholarship plus additional $2500 per year. Net cost about 10k per year, way less than your instate options.
@threeofthree Just wanted you to know I have a family friend who is a big whig of sorts at a very large engineering aerospace firm and he told me he hires engineers from GT, UF and Auburn almost exclusively at his Orlando location. Has hired from more prestigious schools such as MIT but those hires never seem to stay for long and he feels he makes good investments with the hires from the 3 mentioned schools.
@saismom - that is great to know! I wasn’t too worried about job prospects,… it’s the cost that hurts me and of course the disappointment by my son that he didn’t get in the school he worked so hard to get accepted by. He’s over the disappointment and can’t imagine being anywhere else (marching in a Nat’l Championship his first year didn’t hurt)…I on the other hand am still a bit put-off by GT’s decision making and how they can pick out of state/international students over in-state students with just as good or better stats - but I need to get over it, again.
@threeofthree, I do understand your point. But GTech is not a state flagship. It already admits over 70% from GA. I think having an international/multi-state flavor is one of the key attractions of this elite technical school.
http://factbook.gatech.edu/admissions-and-enrollment/enrollment-by-state-table-4-12/
Also, admission to GTech (and many other elite publics) is not always about stats or residency. Moreover, attracting students from elsewhere brings in more dollars, the full fare kinds, like my D2 is !
It is about selecting a suitable “value proposition” for a student, which has a different connotation for different applicants. In our case, we did not look locally ¶ at all for various reasons as we knew that the state-related ones (Penn State, Pitt) did not match up to our idea of the right mix for D2.
@io12575 - I’m not sure what your definition of a state flagship is but I think GT is a state flagship school. 
I’m definitely worried my current 8th grader may not get in. It’s getting harder and harder each year for in state kids to be admitted. He may have to go somewhere else for a year and need to use the conditional enrollment that is offered to kids who have siblings/parents/grandparents that are alumni/current students.
Hello @MichiganGeorgia,
From Wikipedia…
The System is home to four research universities; Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Georgia, Georgia Regents University and Georgia State University. The University of Georgia is the state and system’s flagship university and also the state’s oldest and largest institution of higher learning.[1][2] University of North Georgia is the state’s designated military school. There are three historically black schools housed within the USG; Fort Valley State University, Albany State University and Savannah State University.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_System_of_Georgia
while GTech is
The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, Tech, or GT) is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It is a part of the University System of Georgia and has satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia; Metz, France; Athlone, Ireland; Shanghai, China; and Singapore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Institute_of_Technology