The Zell Miller scholarships have removed financial barriers for talented Georgia students to attend Georgia public universities. GT is not only going to want to see good grades, but high ACT/SAT scores especially in math for College of Engineering and College of Computing students. UGA is slightly less competitive. Race is not considered in admissions. Emory is private and does consider race and admission is about as competitive as GT but 16.5% of the class is Asian. You are fast approaching the EA deadline at GT & UGA (Oct 15) and EDI (Emory) is Nov 1.