<p>I have been accepted to Georgia Tech Chemical engineering program for Fall 2011. Is there anyone else from Houston, Texas who has been accepted?</p>
<p>That’s actually exactly what I’m thinking about majoring in at GT(if I get accepted). Do you mind giving your stats?</p>
<p>If you contact the GT Club of Houston, they can put you in contact with accepted students in the area. They usually have some local events for accepted students but those won’t happen until all students have been accepted (after May). </p>
<p>To get on their email list, contact: <a href="mailto:lauratle@gmail.com">lauratle@gmail.com</a>
Website: <a href=“http://gtalumni.org/ClubTemplates/houston/index.php[/url]”>http://gtalumni.org/ClubTemplates/houston/index.php</a></p>
<p>Hi minnesotaguy,</p>
<p>Here are my Stats: 2280-SAT
790-Reading, 780-Math, 750-Math. ACT-34
GPA- 3.54/4.0 and 5.24/6</p>
<p>How about you? What major did u apply for?</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing and congrats on being accepted! It’s nice to get a general idea of what will get acceptances into GT. And I’m only a sophomore so I haven’t applied yet, but I have an engineering personality and am relatively intelligent so GT is #1 on my list atm.
Also, did you have any EC’s? I’m really not EC-strong since clubs are a waste of time to me and the job market for teens is horrendous.</p>
<p>minnesotaguy,</p>
<p>I have been a member of Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council, African Library Project Club, and Interact for the past 4 years. I have more than 300 community service hours. I am a member of the National Honor Society and the Spanish National Honor Society. I have been taking a bunch of AP classes.</p>
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<p>As a teen, it might be helpful to look for an unpaid internship. Companies are usually very willing to take unpaid interns since it costs them nothing but makes the company look good (community service). You might think “I don’t want to work and not get paid.” But an unpaid internship isn’t work - you meet with engineers at a company and watch what they do. You get to tour plants and see what chemical engineering is really like before deciding on it as your life’s work. Besides, you can schedule it as an hour or two per week. If you’re going to spend those two hours watching TV, you might as well go to a chemical plant instead. It will be as interesting but more beneficial (and will look good on an application). If you need help finding an internship, start with your school’s counselor. They sometimes have a list of companies or organizations willing to help.</p>
<p>Also, I wouldn’t consider other EC’s as a waste of time. Sure they might just be social events, but even as an engineer, your future success depends on building relationships and working with people. In fact, in a job interview graduating from Georgia Tech, 60% or so of the questions you’ll be asked have to do with how you work in a team. Even if you take the least team-oriented path possible (go through to a PhD then academia), you’ll still have to work in teams. Dissertation committees aren’t one-man operations and you won’t get far in academia without co-authors and friends on editorial boards at journals.</p>
<p>As you look for EC’s, try to find something that interests you. If you don’t want to sit around a room talking, look for community service groups. If you want to improve your math or science skills, look into Science Olympiad or a chess club. If you want to pick up a useful skill, get Rosetta Stone, learn the basics of a foreign language (it doesn’t have to be Spanish, French, or German - you could try Russian, Mandarin, or even Klingon) then join a group that practices that language. </p>
<p>If nothing else, just try a few clubs to see if they’re anything that you like. And if nothing interests you at all, start a new club. Even if it’s something like the Klingon Speaking Society and no one else joins that says a lot about you (that you show initiative).</p>
<p>@nerdwantgum - I thought of something else regarding that mailing list for GT Houston - if you get on the list, you’ll see all of the Houston alumni meetings (they meet almost every week to watch basketball or football games during Fall/Spring). If you go and tell people you’re a new student, you’ll be the most popular guy there and you’ll probably get free food and drinks. At the same time, you can get to know the people that will be making the club scholarship decisions.</p>
<p>Dear Banjohitter,</p>
<p>Thanks so much for providing me with the contacts and link for the Houston GT club. I have already contacted them.</p>
<p>I agree with you regarding the importance of joining clubs in high school and later in college. They provide you the opportunities to network as well as learn new things. I thoroughly enjoyed my time volunteering for each club. In the real word, you do have to work as a team, not as isolated individuals. I will strongly recommend every teen to get involved in the community and enjoy their time in clubs.</p>
<p>nerwantgum</p>
<p>ur final sat score doesn’t match with ur separate score lol</p>
<p>Those are the highest individual scores from two administrations</p>
<p>Nerdwantgum:
Which high school do you go to? I have cousins in Houston. One has been accepted at GT for next year.</p>
<p>Clements High School in Sugar Land. What H.S does your cousin attend?</p>
<p>Lamar
10 char</p>
<p>Is this Lamar H.S in Houston or is his H.S in the Lamar School district?</p>
<p>I’m from Abilene, TX and have also been admitted for Chemical Engineering!</p>
<p>Have you applied for housing yet? When are you attending the FASET? I plan on going on July 17-18 and combining it with campus tour. How about you?</p>