<p>Intended Major: Engineering
Stats:
GPA: 3.3-3.4 (Very low but shows an upward trend)
No class rank
SAT: 700 M 610 Cr 690 W (1310/2000) Also low</p>
<p>EC's
President of FBLA, Model U.N. and Debate Club
100 + hours of volunteer work
Violin for 8 years (Peformed in Belgium and France/ Lincoln Center)</p>
<p>Research: Did intensive research in biotechnology/nanoscience in a chemical engineering department at a university. Worked with the head of the department and graduate students. Got an AMAZING rec from head of the department!! (Also I wrote a really good report that the professor talked about in his letter)</p>
<p>Unfortunately the rec won’t help you. The Math SAT looks OK and the writing SAT is actually very good (but unfortunately for you not weighed much). The CR is a little low but not terrible. What’s really going to be a problem is the GPA. It’s going to be very hard to get in with that, so Tech is a reach.</p>
<p>I was accepted with a GPA just a little higher than yours and a similar SAT, so don’t be discouraged. What you need to do is compare your GPA to your graduating class’s median GPA to see where you fall. A 3.4 at one school may be equivalent to a 3.7 at another depending on how schools weight AP courses and the overall difficulty of the school.</p>
<p>For example, my weighted GPA is a 3.6, and my school’s median is a 3.2. At another school, a student may have a 3.6 where the median is a 3.8.</p>
<p>Also, and I have no way of knowing this for sure, but I believe things like upward trend do not impact Tech’s admission process.</p>
<p>From what I’ve read from publicly available sources, Tech’s admissions process is purely numerical. They take your Math SAT, CR SAT, writing SAT, GPA (scaled by school difficulty), an outside reader (usually a HS guidance counselor that Tech has trained) gives your essay a numerical score, and your ECs are given a numerical score. Then all of these things are multiplied by regression coefficients to generate a score. Then they determine how many students to accept (lets say 4,000) and admit the 4,000 highest scores.</p>
<p>What they’ve also said is that GPA by far has the largest weight in the equation, followed by Math SAT. Everything else has a lower weight. From what I’ve seen over the years, international students get a penalty (need a higher score) than domestic students, but in-state and out-of-state are treated the same. There’s apparently a bonus for being female and a minority. </p>
<p>After the admit/reject decisions come out, they then go over the rejections to give out summer offers, AASU offers (which may now be gone), and conditional admission offers based on certain criteria (for example, children of donors and legacies are treated differently after a rejection and usually get a conditional admission).</p>
<p>If we got enough data and everyone was truthful, we could reverse engineer their equation fairly easily.</p>
<p>I am a current GT student (graduated HS in 2010) and I had a GPA similar to yours, so don’t worry too much about that. I think it will come down to how you presented yourself in your essay. You have just as good of a chance as anyone else. Best of luck to you! Go Jackets!!!</p>