@bluelightning49 yeah I had the same concern except i was wondering if we were locked in our intended major. I emailed their office and they said we can change the major before we come in on Buzzport some way or we can change it during the school year there.
Decision: Accepted
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 690/800/780/10
ACT (breakdown): N/A
SAT II (subject, score): didn’t send
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.69
Weighted GPA: 4.05 school, 3.78 Georgia Tech
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parentheses): AP Lang (5), AP US History (4)
IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, Calc/Stat, AP Gov, AP Environmental Science, AP Latin, German 2 Honors
Number of other EA applicants in your school: ~40
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): None
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): National Merit Commended, Sewanee Book Award for Excellence in Writing, National Latin Exam: Magna Cum Laude, American History Scholar Award
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Junior Classical League, Secretary (9-12), Latin Honor Society (9-12), National Honor Society (11-12), German Club, Vice President (10-12), Environmental Awareness Club 11-12, Academic Team 9-12, National Institute of American History and Democracy summer program (12), Model Atlanta Regional Commission (MARC) for urban planning (11)
Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer/Community Service: intern at Trees Atlanta, conducted research project on the BeltLine
Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details): Common App was probably an 8 or 9
Essays:
Common app: Hiking and experiencing the natural world
Service and Progress: some BS
Additional Essay/QB Essays:
Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):
Teacher Recommendation: AP Lang teacher, loves my writing and German teacher, knows me very well
Counselor Rec: Did not read, probably very good
Additional Info/Rec: None
Other
Date Submitted App: 10/13/2014
U.S. State/Territory or Country: GA
School Type: Private, competitive, sends ~15 kids to Georgia Tech every year
Ethnicity: White as snow
Gender: Male
Income Bracket Range: very high
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): N/A
Reflection
Strengths: Essays, Test Scores
Weaknesses: Grades? Not sure. I guess they were fine.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: My essays and ECs were pretty good, I suppose.
Where else did you apply?: Middlebury College, Carleton College, Reed College, Oberlin College, Kenyon College
Accepted!
ACT: 33 (M30, R32, W35, S35)
GPA: 3.85 UW
10 AP Classes by graduation
Lots of Extracurriculars and Internships
OOS Female
D got in!
Accepted
ACT – 33
4.0 UW
3/300 class rank
OOS
Strong ECs
White female
My DS2 got accepted for Electrical Engineering.
OOS (Northern California Bay Area)
Asian (Indian) Male
GPA : 3.83 UW/4.38 W
Rank : in top 5% of class
School: Private High School in Mountain View
100+ Hours of Volunteer
National Merit Semi finalist
SAT 2310 (770x3)
SAT 2: Math 800 Chem 800 Phy 790
10 APs by the time finish high school
Legacy : My DS1 is a junior in Georgia Tech Electrical Engineer.
A few ECs - president of self founded Music/Guitar Club
**Decision: Accepted **
Objective:
SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 800/800/770/10
SAT II (subject, score): Physics 800, Math II 800
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): my school does QPA (96.8)
Weighted GPA: my school doesn’t weight
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): my school doesn’t rank
AP (place score in parentheses): Physics Mechanics (5), Calc BC (5), Stat (5), CS (5), Chem (5)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, Calc-Based Statistics (took multivariable calc junior year), AP Econ, AP Bio, AP Euro, AP Physics E&M
Number of other EA applicants in your school: a couple
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.):
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): 2x AIME, 2x Math Prize for Girls
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): major ones are Science Olympiad 4 years (president for 3 years) and math league 4 years
Job/Work Experience: Kumon
Volunteer/Community Service: Chinese School
Summer Experience:
Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):
Essays:
Common app: background in cs and why i like it so much 7
Favorite Thing about Tech: wasn’t great 5
Service and Progress: science olympiad 7
Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):
Teacher Recommendation: calc teacher, didn’t read but he said he wrote a really good one
Counselor Rec: idk
Other
Date Submitted App: a few days before
U.S. State/Territory or Country: NJ
School Type: Magnet
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: female
Income Bracket Range: high enough that i wouldn’t get financial aid
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development):
Reflection
Strengths: female doing cs
Weaknesses: didn’t really do anything in the summer and didn’t do sports
Where else did you apply? rutgers and mit (accepted), princeton (waiting)
Other Factors:
General Comments & Advice: I probably won’t go, but congrats to everyone else who got in and good luck to the RD applicants!
Is weighted gpa out of a 6.0?
Accepted
Asian M IS
ACT: Did not report
SAT: 2350 (750 CR 800 M&W)
SAT II: 800 Math 2
GPA: 4.0 UW, ~4.2 W
12 AP Classes
They officially have my AP scores, got a few 5s and 4s
Ranked 5/409
Essays: Very thought-out, reflective
Rec: Written by my STAR teacher, should be a decent letter
ECs: Several volunteering and leadership experiences; varsity tennis
Work experience: Instructor at Mathnasium
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Physics Mech, AP Bio, AP Stat, AP Lit, Health, PE, Econ.
Number of other EA applicants in your school: 9
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): Georgia Governor’s Honors Program (?)
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): National Merit Commended, AP Scholar w/Distinction, Academic letter, Varsity Tennis letter.
Reflection
Strengths: GPA, test scores, essays, ECs
Weaknesses: N/A
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Good objective data
What would you have done differently?: Nothing
Where else did you apply?: Cal Tech, Rice, Vanderbilt, JHU, Duke, Northwestern, Columbia, Yale
GT is my top choice. Also accepted to UGA.
Accepted (ChemE)
ACT: 34
GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.6W
Rank: 3/400
ECs: slightly below average
Recs: 8/10
Essays: 10/10
Decision: Accepted
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Superscore - 2290 (800 CR, 710M, 780W); Second attempt - 2280 (800CR, 700M, 780W), first attempt - 2220 (750CR, 710M, 760W).
ACT (breakdown): Didn’t take.
SAT II: 800 Math II, 750 Physics, 660 Chemistry (this was a bad day).
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): N/A (89.5%/100)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A (top 10% since 9th grade)
AP (place score in parenthesis): Self-studied and earned a 5 in AP Calculus BC, Psychology, Physics C: Mechanics, Computer Science A.
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science.
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Honors, Outstanding Delegate - Harvard MUN (Don’t think it counts as major, but anyway), Silver Standard - Galois Mathematics Contest (UWaterloo).
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Computer Programming (Web design, competitive programming, app development, etc.); MOOCs such as Coursera, edX, and Udacity; Science Club - Vice President (leadership); Math competitions, robotics competitions, etc; School Magazine - Editorial Board; Model United Nations - Chairperson, Director, Asst. Rapporteur, several awards as a delegate (leadership); School Debate Team - few speaker awards at national level debates; Music - Piano/Guitar/Vocal (self-taught); Squash - recreational activity.
Job/Work Experience: None.
Volunteer/Community service: I made Khan Academy-like tutorial videos (beginning from 9th grade) catered to the computer science curriculum (grades 9-12) in my country. My videos now have over 82,000 views, and my channel has above 650 subscribers.
Essays: CommonApp: I wrote about my journey into learning programming, discovering online learning and then making videos, and my general interest in education. I’m a bad judge of my own essay so I’m not sure how accurate my rating is, but I’d say 7/10. Supplements: Why GTech (8/10), Progress and Service (7.5/10).
Teacher Recommendation: Chemistry teacher (8/10)
Counselor Rec: Didn’t read.
Interview: N/A
Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Computer Science
Country (if international applicant): India
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: ~ $150k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None.
Reflection
Strengths:
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself:
Weaknesses: SAT1 Math score, SAT2 Chemistry and Physics, cliched ECs.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Essays, essays, essays.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: GTech is my first acceptance.
Advice - There’s nothing I can say that isn’t already on CC, but if you want to know something specific, feel free to ask/PM me.
Absolutely thrilled! Congratulations to everybody else accepted. To those deferred / rejected - I have been where you are. I know how you feel. Something better is in store. 
I got accepted!
White female OOS
35 ACT (32 math, 31 combined English/writing)
3.96 unweighted GPA
Non ranking school
7 APs: World (3), US (3), Lang (4), Calc BC (4), currently taking psych, stat, and physics
I think I have pretty good EC’s. Varsity cheer, an allstar cheer team, yearbook EIC, and church stuff.
My common app essay was written to the prompt about where you feel perfectly content and I wrote about cheer. It wasn’t particularly great, definitely not my best college essay I’ve written.
Recs - Teacher rec was from the yearbook teacher. She’s known me for years and really loves me so it was probably pretty good, talked about leadership and such. My counselor likes me a lot also but doesn’t know me that well so could’ve been great or just average.
Also accepted to: Clemson, Texas Tech, Mizzou, Alabama, waiting on UNC - Chapel Hill
There’s no way I’ll be able to go unless I get one of the big scholarships… but at least I can say I got in!
@DaedricSaiyan Great so that basically confirms that they gave us admission into the major that we applied to right?
Objective:
• SAT I (breakdown): 2330 (780CR/790M/760W)
• ACT: 33
• SAT II: Math II: 760, Chem: 600
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
• Weighted GPA: 4.85
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/250
• AP (place score in parenthesis):
MicroEcon (4) in 9th grade
Human Geo (5) in 10th grade
MacroEcon (5)
English Lang (5) in 11th Grade
Physics C (5)
Spanish (5)
Calc BC (5)
APUSH (4)
Comp Sci. (5)
• IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
• Senior Year Course Load:
AP Chem, AP Stat, AP Gov, 2 network admin classes, post-AP Spanish, dual enrollment Composition II
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): the usual NMSF and AP national scholar
FBLA
Economics : 2nd at districts and 3rd at state
Business Math : 2nd in district
Global Business: 1st at district and state, 4th at National level
Spanish
Impromptu: Highest distinctions at district and state
Poetic recitation: highest distinction at district and second highest distinction at state
Subjective:
• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
FBLA (chapter president, district president)
Spanish Honor Society (VP)
FTC Team (Senior Member)
Network and Systems Administration Assistant (Project leader of Sharepoint cloud based system)
NHS
• Job/Work Experience: paid internship at MITRE supporting marine corps and special operations
• Volunteer/Community service:90 hours volunteering at robotics camp
• Summer Activities: caretaker for my disabled mother and full-time MITRE internship
• Essays: I can’t self evaluate
• Teacher Recommendation: Excellent. My network administrations teacher wrote it and he has won national awards from Microsoft for innovative technogy
• Counselor Rec: Most likely good
Other
• State (if domestic applicant):FL
• Country (if international applicant): USA
• School Type: Regularly ranked top 20 public high school by USNEWS
• Ethnicity: Indian
• Gender: female
• Income Bracket: prefer to not say
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
Female in computer science
Foreign Language: English, Spanish, and Tamil
MTA certification in Security and C#
Certified in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel 2010
Reflection
• Strengths: Test scores, recs, class rigor, GPA, plenty of leadership
• Weaknesses: Should have put more focus into my essays. I didn’t include as much about who I am as a person as I should have.
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
I think my strong test scores, GPA, extracurriculars in robotics and business, my leadership positions, my recommendations, and my schools unique affiliation with Microsoft Education helped me get accepted.
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Haven’t heard from yet
First acceptance. I find out the rest in Feb/Mar. Best of look to everyone!
Majors are not considered in the decision process. However, if you visit campus for a presentation for a particular major that could add weight in hat it shows your level of interest.
Yes, you have admission to the major you applied to. You can also change your major before you start very easily. Tech is not strict about this. You are admitted to the school, not any specific major.
You can change your major designation at FASET (orientation) they just need it to assign you an advisor. No big deal to switch.
Decision: Accepted
Test Scores:
ACT:33 (English: 32, Math:36, Combined E/W:31)
SATII: Chemistry 780, Math II:800
AP:
AP Physics B, Physics C Mechanics, Calculus BC, Statistics, Chemistry: all 5
AP Environmental Science: 4
UW GPA: 3.8/4
Accepted Comp Sci
ACT: 31C, 34M, 34E, ,30S, 25R, 31 Eng/Writ.
GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.3 W
APs: 11th - AP Bio, AP english
12th- AP chem, AP calc, AP psych
ECs:
NHS
JV Math Team - 1st in County
Varsity Math Team - 1st place in school
Volunteer at local hospital
Volunteer at Library
Red Cross Club
Magna Cum Laude on National Latin Exam
State: MD
Asian
**Decision: Accepted **
Objective:
ACT: Composite-35(E-36, M-36, R-35, S-32, Essay-11, Writing-35)
(NOTE: 2400 by GT conversion. Look it up.)
SAT II: Physics(800); Math(790); Biology(760); Chemistry(750); World History(720)
Grades: ICSE: 95.00% cumulative, 96.40% best 5 aggregate;
IB Year One: 37/42
IB diploma predicted 41/42, 777 at Physics, Chem, Math HL;
APs: World History(5), European History(5) (self-studied)
Major awards: National Merit Semifinalist, international quizzing and Model UN awards. 2nd place in India for spelling.
Subjective:
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MUN- President, head delegate and Best and Outstanding delegate awards at multiple regional/international level conferences, executive board member of international level conference. - Founder of a registered NGO that trains children in English and public speaking/debate.
- Quiz team captain, founder- local awards at multiple quizzes. Won 1st place(school category) at an international quiz with participants across the continent.
- Spelling: 2nd place (all-India) at the national Spell Bee 2011. House team captain during 9th and 10th grade.
- Editor-in-Chief- of school yearbook and newsletter, coordinate all literary activities in school. In charge of school yearbook, major annual publication
- Writing- multiple awards at regional level.
- Debate team captain and founder- local awards, organized regional qualifier for national level debate tournament.
- Independent science projects- Made irrigation system for local farmers, made an android app for school’s attendance, won astrophysics engineering design competition
- Internship at local web design company-coded in SQL, CSS
- Internship web data/dev. firm-Work in Java/PHP and Android apps.
Other
Applied for Financial Aid? Yes
State/Country: US Citizen applying from India. OOS
School Type: IB
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none.
Reflection
Strengths: Scores, ECs
Weaknesses: grades, recs, essays, Asian Male applying to CS.
When is the deadline for accepting the offer?