<p>It's as simple as this - go to uga or georgia or no college. there are no backup schools so its basically all or nothing. I need some input of what my chances are right now and already posted a thread on a similar website(college toolkit but turns out no one goes on that site anymore) Input from those who are applying to same schools, have been accepted would be much appreciated, or just anyone who knows what they are talking about. Thanks. Peace.</p>
<p>My case:</p>
<p>Live in alpharetta, Ga
Am asian/Vietnamese
GPA: a little unsure but should be 3.4 - 3.7
Go to 23 ranked high school in GA(raiders!!!)
class rank: ga tech and uga dont care(thank god!)</p>
<p>AP Tests(6 ap classes)
Biology 5
Comp Government & Politics 3</p>
<p>6 Honor Classes</p>
<p>Extracurriculars/Honors/Awards:</p>
<p>Science Olympiad
Beta Club
Taekwondo
Religious/Bible studies
Science National Honor Society
Black Belt in Taekwondo
Placed 6th in two events(Dynamic Planet and Cell Biology) and 7th in Astronomy in the Alpharetta High School Science Olympiad Invitational(chosen to be on school's A team even though it was first time competing and my first year)
Chosen to compete in upcoming Science Olympiad Regional competition
50+ hours of community service</p>
<p>You need to know, and should be able to calculate your UWGPA. If you don’t know, post your transcript here and someone will calculate it for you. With a 3.4 UWGPA, you will not get into Tech, and are a slight reach for UGA. With a 3.7 UWGPA, you’ll easily get into UGA, and will be slight reach for GT. </p>
<p>Regardless, I wouldn’t just skip college if you can’t get into Tech or UGA. No one cares where you went to college - just where your degree is from. Even if you’re rejected from both schools, you can go to GSU or another regional school in your area and transfer after a year or two.</p>
<p>I just calculated your GPA from your other thread and got a 86.1% unweighted. When I curve that by setting all grades 90-100 = 4.0, 80-89 = 3.0, etc, I get a 3.12. Using GT’s weighting (+0.5 for AP / IB courses), I get a 86.6% or 3.17 WGPA. For Georgia colleges, this gives you a Freshman Index of 2915.</p>
<p>You will not get into Georgia Tech with those scores (your GPA is in the bottom 1-2%). Sorry.</p>
<p>Actually… you really should run a sanity check on the calculation above. You know your class rank, right? If it’s Top 10%, then my 3.12 is obviously way off. But if you’re Top 35-45%, then it’s probably about right.</p>
<p>Your score of 2915 is very below average for Tech (average 3229 - meaning you would need to raise your SAT to 800 Math, 800 CR, you would still be below average). Your score is below average for UGA (average 3104), but is above average for GSU (average 2810) and well above average for all other public schools in Georgia.</p>
<p>Eddy- despite what the other posters say you have a decent chance of admission, but only if you apply. Your SAT is right at the GT average and your other thread indicates 15 As and 15 Bs with a good number of honors and AP courses, GT will also look at the rigor of your classwork relative to your high school also. The main thing you can control now is your essay, so do a good job with that and be thorough with documenting your extra-curriculars. I would not be surprised if you ended up admitted to UGA and GT (really depends on the rigor of your classes which you do not specify in your other thread), but if not you might want to look at GCSU in Milledgville, which is rapidly emerging as a good third option for liberal arts. Both UGA and GT are easy to transfer into if you keep your college grades above 3.0.</p>
<p>UGA does not drop the 7 honor points when calculating your high school GPA, but they will not award the 0.5 bonus in that case when calculating GPA, GT probably does the same but I am not sure. The gpa profiles at both schools for entering freshman are practically identical, but GT students tend to have higher test scores like you have. All schools have to report the freshman index to the state as a common basis of comparing entering freshman classes across the school system, but it is not actually used to make admission decisions.</p>
<p>wow, thanks alot!!! I was pretty down and starting to look at ga state after hearing what that other guy was saying about my chances but hey…DON’T STOP BELIEVING!!!</p>
<p>Here is how I calculated it. Let me know where I went wrong:</p>
<p>89(82 wo 7) = B
87(80 wo 7 points) = B
90(83 w/o extra 7 points)H = B
87 = B
98 = A
90 = A
86 = B
96(89 wo 7 points)H = B
89 = B
95 = A
92 = A
93(86 wo 7)H = B
89(82 wo 7)H = B
89 = B
88 = B
92(85 wo 7)H = B
94(87 wo 7)H = B
84(77 wo 7)H = C
90 = A
91 = A
91(84 wo 7)H = B
94(87 wo 7)H = B
87(80 wo 7)AP = B*
86 = B
86 = B
86(79 wo 7)AP = C*
90 = A
91(84 wo 7)H = B
86(79 wo 7)AP = C*
81 = B
86 = B
88 = B </p>
<p>Total Classes: 32
A - 7
B - 22
C - 3
AP - 3 </p>
<p>Unfortunately, schools do not consider the HS WGPA because it varies widely from school to school. At many schools, it’s not uncommon for multiple students to be in the 5+ GPA range. What colleges use are the UWGPA and/or their GPA (the GT WGPA in this case). Comparing her GPA to Tech’s stats:</p>
<p>You can see that she falls in the middle of the “3.00 - 3.24” range, which has an admission rate of 3%, so you can place her somewhere in the 1.5-2% range on GPA. Correct me if I’m wrong, though.</p>
<p>Why did I go into that detail? Because her original post said that she’s only applying to Tech and UGA. I can’t see her get into Tech, and even UGA is a reach. She needs to add another school like GSU from which she can later transfer to Tech or UGA. Despite what many people think, no one will ever care (or even know) where you were went to college right after high school. All people care about is who grants your degree. So who cares if you get into Tech as a freshman or as a sophomore transfer from GSU - either way you’re a Tech graduate (unless you put all your eggs in the GT/UGA basket and end up not going to college at all).</p>
<p>Another option: Which after visiting, I would be in strong dislike with if I chose it= Mercer if you want to start w/an engineering program. Overall, I think the school advertises itself to be far more influential than it is and publishes some interesting stats. For example, they have more HOPE scholars and S.T.A.R. students than any private school in Georgia. In reality, their competition would be Emory, which has like half the amount of Georgia residents enrolled as they (each freshmen class here is 20% Ga. while each there is 80% Ga.). Meaning, we probably couldn’t win if we wanted to. Plus, campus is not as pretty as in pics (But many buildings do live up. Some have really nice classical architecture. As in Colonial brick). Main difference I noticed is how the campus was “completely” dead during finals (plus their finals went up to a Saturday). Our campus (and perhaps most) could be considered live during finals compared to that.<br>
Either way, almost all schools (especially private) are pretentious to some degree. They still have a solid undergrad. engineering program. I have friends in it. If you don’t like it after a year, make high grades and transfer out to Tech. Also, their admission stats are significantly lower than UGA and Tech, so a person w/ over a 1300 is well into their 75 percentile kind of like state, which may make for a nice scholarship :). Just throwing it out there.</p>
<p>I think you should be good for UGA… the in state factor should definitely help
GT… to be honest probably a reach… one of the best engineering schools in the nation</p>
<p>Sorry for the confusion. You can’t always guess gender on here. Eddy can be a variant of Edna or Eddie.</p>
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<p>Honestly, I hope I’m wrong and you have a 3.7 GPA and get into Tech and UGA easily.</p>
<p>Do you know your class rank? You don’t need to tell us, but if it’s Top 10%, you probably don’t have a 3.12 UWGPA. If it’s 30-50%, then you’re probably somewhere around 3.12. </p>
<p>Another thing: does your school provide a guide for converting grades? Something like “90-100 = Excellent. 80-90 = Above Average.” etc? Sometimes schools don’t use the 90-100 = 4.0 (which I assumed). I’ve never seen a school go lower (like 85-100 = 4.0, 70-85 = 3.0) but it’s possible and would greatly increase your GPA.</p>
<p>Yeah, my school never did 4.0 scale. I think they left it up to the University System of Georgia system to do that conversion whenever someone applied.</p>
<p>Given that article he showed, I’ll lower UGA to maybe (If that GPA is what G.P. calculated, I’ll say 60/40 yes based upon the stats of some of my friends who were admitted, these maybe outliers however. Also, hope they don’t lump Asians in a different category. Hate to play the race card, but it appears that some/many institutions do it) . I have noticed that they have been a bit more unpredictable in admissions over the years. Tech… there is high chance for a no (maybe 40/60). But I think anything is possible, may just take some luck. By the way, why Tech or UGA? You do realize that they are schools with almost completely different curricula, right? Are you saying that you will settle for either curricula? If so, it’s fine. But you may want to be very sure, especially if you happen to be admitted into Tech and decide to enroll.</p>
<p>You know what, throw in the fact that you are in-state (as some other people adressed), and chances for UGA may go up by a factor greater than that indicated in the article. Tech, I really don’t know. And the in-state factor gets ify there because they seem to have been trying to increase regional diversity lately. Which means they get excited when the amount of Ga. applicants/admits drops percentage wise. </p>
<p>I have a gut feeling that you’ll be admitted to UGA despite what I said up there.</p>
<p>hey gp, how familiar are u really with how uga and ga tech calculate gpa?Intimately? and how much would my first semester scores from senior year help me bc im getting grades(really good grades) that ive never gotten before in high school now that ive finally feel a since of urgency that i did not feel in my first three years of high school which i regrettably sleep walked through and did not take seriously. my peers have been telling me it would help if i did really well.</p>