<p>Heres a clip from the GT website as of today:</p>
<p>"By Nov 1st, we had about 6,900 applications and for all of the students who applied to GT by November 1st, (That's EN round 1 and EN round 2) we accepted a little fewer than 59% of the applicants. Less than 5% were denied and the remainder were deferred until March. If you were deferred, that does not mean that you won't be accepted in March. However, if DOES mean that we are going to be taking a closer look at your 1st semester grades, as well as the entire committee will be discussing your application again.
Remember, being deferred is NOT the same as being denied! Breathe deeply, and keep doing your best in school. Besides, if you are accepted to Georgia Tech, NO ONE is going to care whether you were admitted in December or March. Don't worry, Don't Stress! It will all work out for the best!"</p>
<p>This was after the Oct 1 decisions:</p>
<p>"Our Early Notification round was extremely competitive this year. With over 3900 applications, we are seeing a significant increase in applications compared to last fall. These students are also academically outstanding, with an average GPA of 3.79, average testing of 1996 and over three weighted courses. We accepted 56% of the applicants, and these students averages were 3.97 GPA, 2095 testing and almost 4 weighted courses. About 36% of applicants were deferred and will be reevaluated in our Regular Decision round to receive an admission decision in mid-March."</p>
<p>Someone did a quick calculation based on last year and came up with >50% of the deferred students are admitted, so don’t give up hope. IIRC your son has a 2200 SAT score and 3.5 GPA? That’s very strong for RD.</p>
<p>Fall 2008 Applications, Acceptances, and Enrollments<br>
Number of applicants: 10,258
Number of applicants accepted: 6,248
Freshman enrollment for Fall 2008: 2,640 </p>
<p>That’s assuming that the first applicant and last have an distribution of qualifications. It’s pretty straight forward to assume that the earlier applicants are more qualified on average than the later applicants. The students that apply first are the ones that are more prepared, spend more time on their application, have researched colleges more thoroughly (and know where they can get in), and tend to have higher scores (they study for the SAT and took it in their junior year). The RD applicants tend to be the students that were either already rejected from their other colleges and are panicking or just started to consider their college decision in the December/January time frame. As a result, they compare less favorably to the students that apply early, even those that were deferred.</p>
<p>The piece of information that someone else used was something along the lines of the Admissions office mentioning that 80% of early applicants eventually get in. If 60% are already admitted, and 5% are rejected, that means that 20% of the total pool still gets in out of the 100% - 60% - 5% = 35% deferred, meaning that 4 out of every 7 deferred students get in eventually.</p>
<p>If you want to play with the numbers some more (and make many simplifying assumptions), that means that only 30% of RD applicants get in. Pretty big difference between the groups.</p>
<p>Yes, he has a very good chance to get in. And like they said on the official message board - once you get in, no one cares if it was early or RD. </p>
<p>I would definitely still come to visit. Let me know if you need any help making plans.</p>
<p>Pixeljig, we are in the same boat as you, almost, son deferred with a 34 ACT. I would like to take him to visit to see if he would like a big city college, but he is still in finals and very grumpy. I will check back once I can get him talking.</p>
<p>Just for comparison - My son applied and got accepted RD last fall with SATs 630r 690m 740w (1320/1600 or 2060/2400) and 3.89 GPA & 5 APS with no HS physics. His guidence councilor said he didn’t have a chance without physics.</p>
<p>There are entire schools without physics. Though I really feel bad for him if his first exposure to physics is PHYS 2211. </p>
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<p>No, everyone has the same chance. The point is that the RD applicants tend to be, on an aggregate level, less qualified than the early applicants. Not only that, but since the really unqualified early candidates are already rejected, the pool of deferred candidates (on an aggregate level) is much better than the pool of RD candidates.</p>
<p>G.P.Burdell: but they already mixed in one pool? Do they reevaluate every deferred applicant ? And review RD applicants using same standard?
When will they reevaluate deferred applicant? For RD applicants, apply on Dec 1 is same as Dec 31?</p>
Yes, call admissions, but just ask one question. :)</p>