<p>Hi all, I will be beginning my junior year of high school this fall 2014. Basically I had some not so desireable grades my first 2 years but still had a good amount of rigor. I spoke to my counselor and through the dual enrollment program I can graduate this year at the end of my junior year. I thought id do this because I could start RETP following graduation and enter GT hopefully at the same time or within a semester or two of what would have been my normal graduation. Should I do this? I feel this is the best way out of my current situation.
Please share you thoughts and advice.</p>
<p>P.s I do have legacy at tech as well, (my dad, uncle and brother)</p>
<p>You did not say which major you would be applying for. Keep in mind that the RETP only applies to engineering majors. For example it does not apply to Computer Science (I may be wrong on this).</p>
<p>Where are you from? What I would highly suggest is that you go ahead and go through with your plan. It sounds good, and a lot of students transfer in. I was just accepted as a transfer, but I did not do RETP. Some school also have a TAG program (Transfer Acceptance Guarantee). It is like RETP but not restricted to engineering.</p>
<p>Where would you like to go to school to start working on your RETP? I would suggest GPC. </p>
<p>Yes, my bad, I am definetly wanting to peruse an engineering degree which is why I was seriously looking at RETP. Specifically environmental engineering is what I am passionate about. I am Asian, but born here, and I was most likely going to do RETP at GPC because it is very close to me and low cost, plus my parents wouldn’t let me leave home at 17. What are the advantages of doing RETP over TAG?
Thanks</p>
<p>I didn’t do RETP or TAG, so I can’t speak to definitely as to what the advantages and disadvantages. I just applied as a straight transfer and was accepted.</p>
<p>If you want to do engineering, then RETP is going to be the way to go because you will be taking a lot of the introductory engineering classes. Really though, as long as you get in then it shouldn’t matter too much. I have an undergraduate and masters degree already, and I have been to a lot of schools. My experience at GPC - Dunwoody was excellent. I was highly impressed with the quality of my instructors and classmates. You will find that the students that are there to transfer into Tech are usually pretty serious students. I also had a lot of students from Tech in my classes over there because it is a better experience for some classes. I had tech students in my calc III, ODE, and physics classes. I did not have to take a lot of the other pre-reqs like english, history, and lad science such as bio and chem there. I had already taken them at other schools. Good luck</p>