<p>How does Georgia Tech maintain such a high caliber of students for their engineering programs with an acceptance rate of 60%?</p>
<p>Because it is such a good school - only kids who really think they can get in apply.</p>
<p>A lot of the students who get in are individuals who did not make it into MIT. We all know several terrifically academically qualified individuals do not make it into MIT – a lot of them feed into Georgia Tech supposedly; this makes for a group of very smart students, given often the reason someone was rejected from MIT is unclear in the first place. Another feeding ground is Berkeley, for instance.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley isn’t the hardest school to get into, but it’s world class material for engineering, and it’s only natural that because it has a relatively straightforward admissions process that a bunch of the students with stellar academic stats end up there, knowing well that it’s one of the few schools measuring upto MIT standards.</p>
<p>GT also weeds out an amazing amount of students. Their four year graduation rate is really, really low.</p>
<p>Ga Tech used to be “weed out” school, but not anymore. Even its GPA is rising from 2.7 in 90s to roughly 3.0 GPA. Its freshman retention rate is almost 92%. Its graduation rate also improved quite a bit in recent year. However, due to engineering program (normally required large number of credits) and very successfully co-op program, most Ga Tech students don’t graduate in 4 years. If you look at five year graduation, it is almost 71% and increasing.</p>
<p>State of Ga has hope scholarship that gives 3.0 GPA student free tuition. Ga Tech, due to that, increase its average SAT by almost 120 points in ten years. I know several kids who turn down MIT and go to Tech for that reason.</p>
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<p>Maybe by focusing on more than just the acceptance rate? ; )</p>
<p>I think you are absolutely correct with the hope program increasing quality of apps to Gtech. Middle class and uppermiddle class families feel like we are getting hosed by finaid, who treat someone making 160K the same as someone making 1.6M</p>
<p>Do you think I could consider Gtech a low match?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/722896-chances-great-engineering-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/722896-chances-great-engineering-schools.html</a></p>
<p>[SAT</a> Scores | Georgia Tech Factbook](<a href=“http://factbook.gatech.edu/content/sat-scores]SAT”>http://factbook.gatech.edu/content/sat-scores)</p>
<p>in 2010, the entering freshmen class had avg SAT score of 667 verbal and 720 math. kids are pretty smart. they are not 800/800 MIT students but still.</p>
<p>There’s some “self-selection” that goes on at GT that doesn’t happen at many other very good national universities</p>
<p>1) Some wont’ apply because they know they won’t get in.</p>
<p>2) Some don’t want a more “technical school”, which the name implies.</p>
<p>3) Some don’t want a school with an unbalanced male/female ratio.</p>
<p>4) Some refuse to apply to schools south of Mason-Dixon.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech is a State school and will admit certain number of students within state automatically based on certain criteria (GPA, scores, rank etc). However, those who apply will already know whether they qualify before hand. </p>
<p>The OOS and internationals that apply are those that play MIT lottery but know they can make it to GTech.</p>
<p>So as MIT says, the pool is self selective before they apply because they have to be interested in engineering and shooting high.</p>
<p>Which is better(reputation wise) ua or georgia tech? I’m trying to determine where to send one of D2’s free SAT scores.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech generally has a higher reputation than Alabama. However, the selectivity levels are different enough that they fulfill different purposes in student application lists. For example, Georgia Tech may be uncertain for admissions and out-of-state cost and financial aid for some students, while the same students may find Alabama to be safe for both admission and cost with the large merit scholarships.</p>
<p>Great education does not correlate to admissions rate.</p>
<p>GT has a high acceptance rate for the same reason Chicago used to have a high acceptance rate; self-selective applicant pool. The vast majority of applicants are very strong academically and very serious about Engineering.</p>
<p>Lots of very good to excellent schools have relatively high admit rates. Also check their yield. And always look at the profile of the accepted students who attend…“the class of 2015 profile” for example. That tells you more about the classmates. </p>
<p>Ga. Tech has a high number of Asian students, almost all of whom are in the College of Engineering. </p>
<p>Its an anomaly as well, because the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is highly respected (as was Sen. Nunn).</p>
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<p>GT undergrads are about 57% engineering, so claiming that a subset* of students there is mostly in engineering does not actually say much.</p>
<p>*defined by something other than major</p>
<p>From today’s AJC:</p>
<p>[High</a> achievers admitted to Georgia Tech | ajc.com](<a href=“http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/high-achievers-admitted-to-1387483.html]High”>http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/high-achievers-admitted-to-1387483.html)</p>
<p>Does Georgia Teach have rolling admission?</p>
<p>GT is a state school. For GA residents, it’s not that hard to get in. They take quite a bunch of transfers from GA two year colleges as well. OOS is on par with any other top engineering schools in the country. That, I guess, is what we talk about how competitive it is here on cc.</p>