How is Georgia Tech a great school with a 60% admit rate?

College Search & Selection
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<p>It’s all relative but with the Hope Scholarship (which is getting chipped away at), GTech and UGA have become much more competitive in-state. It’s true that GTech takes lots of transfers (something to do with spots opening up after Freshmen get weeded out).</p>

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<p>this says it all:</p>

<p>USNWR top 5 Engineering Undergraduate Schools</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech
5. Georgia Tech</li>
</ol>

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<p>“No one from Wyoming was admitted.” </p>

<p>I really want to know how many applied!</p>

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<p>As a Georgia resident I agree about the self-selective applicant pool. I also think this issue is compounded by a rather low yield, as shown here: [The</a> Most Popular National Universities - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2012/01/24/the-most-popular-national-universities]The”>Universities, Colleges Where Students Are Eager to Enroll)</p>

<p>So Tech gets a self-selected pool of applicants and then has to grant a lot of acceptances because they lose a lot of accepted students to cross-admits. The low yield doesn’t suggest that Tech is a weak school (au contraire, according to rankings). Its problem is that its high quality means that it gets a lot of applicants who cross-apply to even more distinguished schools such as MIT and Caltech.</p>