<p>If you are accepted, are out of state with out the the President's Scholarship then
how are you planing to pay for GT?</p>
<p>Georgia</a> Institute of Technology :: Financial Aid :: Cost of Attendance</p>
<p>Scholarships,Scholarships,Scholarships. Being an URM helps I guess, but basically, I plan to apply for a whole lot of scholarships.</p>
<p>Probably a mix of scholarships and loans. It will be hard for me to pass up UF if I get in though, since the total bill will be about $100,000 less with Bright Futures (Florida’s scholarship program), and the engineering is almost as good.</p>
<p>If your out of state, tech has no problems shoving loans at you and calling it “financial aid”. Don’t pay attention to the average cost of attendance at tech. It’s heavily affected by in state kids who pay next to nothing to come here.</p>
<p>Odds of if your out of state, you will pay full price to come here. I am a first year and made that mistake, I was starry eyed and accepted my admission early… when time came to pay up and I had a hard time paying, the financial aid office basically told me tough luck.</p>
<p>Wanna know the only affordable way to come here? Marry a Georgia resident. Instant in-state tuition</p>
<p>@rhackle: MAJOR OUCH THERE. I’m OOS but I’m planning to attend if I get in… Is it really that bad with financial aid ?</p>
<p>GT as a non-resident is much cheaper than many other schools that give you a larger scholarship yet started at a substantially higher price. You need to be smart about it and look at the net price at each place. Even out of state, GT is a good value.</p>
<p>If I don’t make Presidential (which is very difficult), I’ll be going to to another university which has already offered a good scholarship.
I can’t afford full OOS.</p>
<p>It’s Presidential or nothing baby!</p>
<p>Not really, will have to try and find scholarships.</p>
<p>This is probably horrible to say, but I think a lot of people are thinking it so I’ll just write it: I applied mainly for a shot at the Presidential. Georgia Tech is a great university and I could definitely thrive there, but that can be said for hundreds of colleges. If I don’t get the scholarship I’ll probably go somewhere cheaper or a better fit for me.</p>
<p>DS was accepted last year but would have had to pay full price. We decided the extra cost over VT (in-state) and UMD College Park (OOS with great scholarship) wasn’t worth it. He’s happy with the decision.</p>
<p>My son applied and was accepted to GT. He was offered significant money at all except GT. It’s a good school, but 40K+ per year is tough, especially when many similar schools will give merit money to students that GT will not.</p>
<p>Just curious what you consider a similar school. :-)</p>
<p>@GP, UMD is good, purdue for engineering, maybe a few others</p>
<p>My DS was accepted last yr and he is attending BME. Being from CA we are OOS. He had uc santa cruz/barabara/riverside. AFAIK in state tuition for UCs is approaching close to 32K+. So Gatech for 36 to 38k is a bargain compared to Uiuc purdue etc. Ofcourse these prices assumes no financial aid etc.</p>
<p>This thread worries me. Many schools give little or no merit aid. GT must REALLY be stingy. I haven’t noticed active “how will I pay” threads by newly accepted EA students at other more expensive face value schools like MIT, UM, Caltech, Duke, NW… Maybe those schools accept more very high and very low income OOS students. It sounds like many accepted will not attend because of cost.</p>
<p>BTW: there are 2 of theses threads going here…
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/georgia-institute-technology/1430655-those-accepted-oos.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/georgia-institute-technology/1430655-those-accepted-oos.html</a></p>
<p>mwhal - My son was just accepted for BME. What does your son think of the program so far? and is he doing the freshman experience thing and what is your take on that?</p>
<p>Not to add more wood to metaphorical fire, but if I remember correctly, only a third of GTech students graduate within four years, the majority spending about five to six years finishing up their degree due to Tech’s heavy course-load and difficulty. So the total price may end up x1.25~x1.5 higher, and that’s without putting inflation into the equation.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.irp.gatech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/GeorgiaTech_First-TimeFreshmanRetention-Study_Fall2011-01-18-12.pdf[/url]”>http://www.irp.gatech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/GeorgiaTech_First-TimeFreshmanRetention-Study_Fall2011-01-18-12.pdf</a></p>
<p>Page 11: Half of the '07 women graduated in 4 years, and 81% of the '06 women graduated in 5 years. Guys are catching up as well.</p>
<p>You can see drastic improvements at GT in the last ten years on freshman retention rates, graduation rates, etc. Unfortunately, these stats don’t show who co-oped and who didn’t. In general, if you are an average student at GT with a goal to finish in 4, you can. And if you come in with a semester of credit, you can decide how to utilize that.</p>
<p>A real issue is that the people who are most determined to finish in 4 (or 3.5 as quite a few do), don’t often make time to be a campus tour guide or CWT host, so they aren’t spreading the word on how to graduate on-time/early. I’d love to see some stats on tour guide vs. non-tour guide graduation times. 
:-)</p>
<p>MichianGeorgia - no, he didn’t do the freshmen experience as the class was already full by the time of his orientation (we opted for the 7th/last one being OOS from CA - but that was a mistake). Anyway, I dont think he missed anything at all.</p>
<p>Regarding BME, he is still in double/multiple minds. He is also leaning towards ECE with a minor in BME or some sort of stream in Bio side in junior year. He has talked to all the counselors of BME/ECE/undecided depts. He has one intro to BME class next semester that will help him decide.</p>