GT does not admit by major. But they look to see that the application in its entirety fits with the desired major.
Does your son want to snowboard regularly? If so, limit to the schools that offer that and add Montana State to the safety list. I went to UW, D and S went to cal poly and husband went to Colorado Boulder. All engineers. For engineering education - cal poly is best in the list. For experience - Boulder or Dartmouth. Very unimpressed with UC undergrad engineering schools. Too much emphasis on grad programs. Hope that helps
Apparently GT can’t give out consistent numbers. Maybe we need a different example.
Lol.
GT may not technically “admit by major” but it’s pretty clear that they took different stats for different majors; ie some majors were more competitive than others.
@thumper1 “15%”
Because 30000 applications come from OOS, for only 1200 OOS spots in the freshman class.
Thats not how it works, @greymeer. GT accepted 15% of the OOS applicants. Separate issue is the % of the freshman class that is from OOS. These are separate measurements.
What %age of the freshman class is from OOS?
?
Yeah that’s what I pointed out. You are arguing with the wrong guy. Try reading again.
30k applications are OOS.
1200 OOS spots. Yield at Tech is 40% overall.
So OOS yield is probably 30%. So 4k OOS offers.
So 4000/30000 is 14%ish.
Interestingly, Tech probably offers more OOS students 4000 vs instate 3000.
https://irp.gatech.edu/georgia-institute-technology-fast-facts Fall of 18 (a year ago) 29% were from OOS, 10% international, the rest were instate.
The link below will take anyone interested to the admissions by major. They do look ate the listed major when reviewing the applicatin (eg someone applying to the Business college would likely be looked at differently than someone applying to Industrial Engineering WRT how their application, courses, EC’s etc align with their interest). This year, 20% of those who applied to the business school were admitted, whereas 14.5% of those applying to the College of Computing were. Engieering was 18.8%
This year’s freshmen, (2019-20) 4234 applicants applied with the identified major of MechE, compared to 3850 last year, but the # of students accepted into that major was almost identical across years (705 vs 712) 322 enrolled tis year, and 284 last year… So yes, certain majors have a lower acceptance rate than others.
This year’s freshmen (2019-20) - 8271 applied as CS majors in the college of computing, compared to 6845 last year. 1268 were accepted acompared to 1135 last year (558 enrolled this year).
@greymeer
??
For fall of 18, there were 35,611 applications (TOTAL, in state, OOS and international,though another graph shows the total to be 34818, so maybe its missing the internationals - don’t have time to check at the moment; fall 2019-20 admissions shows 35,981 applications.)
The freshman class 2018-19 had 6,208 applicants from instate (and interestingly 5,937 for the 19-20 freshman class) . Acceptances were 2,082 and 2,066 respectively). OOS applications were 28,610 and 30,044 for 2018-9 and 2019-20 freshman classes respectively, with acceptances of 5,163 and 4,643 respectively.
Plese dont tell me to read more carefully. Please look at the data.
@jym626 Good data…and I bet if they split the CS admits by OOS and In-state, the OOS would have higher stats. Virtually all the reports of OOS admissions on CC last year (anedotal I know) had 35/36 ACT, but much lower scores were getting admitted In-state; also true for SAT which most admits had 1550+ SAT if OOS but not necessarily true for In-State, where many with much lower ACT/SAT reported getting admitted.
Also, GA schools seem to offer tons of AP’s, kids are graduating with like 15 of them; also true in FL. GATech, regardless of what they talk about in their blog, loves the high-stat, 15-AP kids with high GPAs. Very different than MIT or Stanford who like innovative students who don’t measure all their success by the number of APs they took, but rather things they invented, businesses they started, quirky interests (Stanford), being a “national champion” in something, etc.
I would call Georgia Tech a great engineering school, but also a big city university. Certainly as much as the LA schools like Caltech, UCLA and USC that your son doesn’t want to attend, because they are in a major city. If he’s been to GT and likes it great. If not, he should know it is where I-75 and I-85 meet in mid-town Atlanta. Do not picture horse farms, 3 hours away from the nearest city in the Deep South or even taking a campus sailboat out on Lake Michigan in urban/suburban Evanston. Top-notch engineering it is.
Since your son wants a laid back campus vibe, but strong CS & Engineering, outside of big cities (pretty much the definition of Stanford) then most on your Reach list sound really good.
I agree with others that Cornell might be a good Reach to add. He might like Michigan, Purdue, Illinois, or Virginia Tech for laid back campuses away from major cities, while still strong in STEM.
Since the first two on his list are Stanford/Northwestern, which are private universities in big conferences, then Duke, Notre Dame and Vanderbilt could be a few other great Reach possibilities, especially if he may consider rounding out his education with a second major or adding a couple of minors where the overall university is considered strong throughout the country.
Yes, his 4 Safeties are Safeties. They could reject your son if he submits a terrible application or they believe he won’t attend, but they are safeties and he has more than enough safeties and matches.
I hope your son is admitted to his first choice, Stanford, and then everything else is moot.
@sunnyschool- Remember that all GA HS vals and sals are auto-admits to UGA and GT. So even if a student went to a small, rural school where possibly these top GPAs/scores were comparatively not that strong (especially if the school didn’t offer many APs so maybe the student doesn’t get much of a weighted bump). Granted this is probably a small # of applicants, but it could possibly slightly affect the instate numbers.
Thanks y’all. This thread took a left turn somewhere along the way, but there was a lot of helpful info in there too.
The list was not in order of preference, except that Stanford is his first choice (however unlikely). Some of the ‘safeties’ could be preferred to more selective options, but there is a lot of stochasticity here so it is smart to spread things out a bit. GA Tech in particular was added in response to a suggestion from his counselor, and if he is lucky enough to get in, we would definitely need to visit.
He really loved CO School of Mines right up until he heard about the skewed sex ratio. If he only gets into his safeties it will likely be a choice between SDSU (less expensive, better ratio, no snow) and Mines. I bet he would choose Mines. Who knows though! Maybe I’ll come back and update when all is said and done.
I thought you said SLO was his first choice?
And yes, please update. It’s often frustrating to the many posters who have taken the time and energy to share and help to then hear nothing in follow-up. Please keep us posted. Please don’t just disappear.
And apologies for a slight digression, but @Greymeer 's numbers were incorrect, and TBH I didn’t appreciate the “try reading again” unnecessary , inaccurate and snarky comment he made. So I thought it would be helpful to provide accurate numbers to answer questions posed by some posters about the GT admissions. (maybe he’ll follow his own advice).
If I said that it was probably in an older thread.
He is pretty realistic about his chances at Stanford so it is almost not even part of our conversations unless/until we get a happy surprise.
If he is accepted everywhere except Stanford (for argument’s sake, obviously unlikely) I think SLO would be the best choice. I don’t know what he would decide, and he has not yet visited many of these schools. SLO is also very competitive for CS so he may not get in. We really we just need to wait and see what the options are. No sense getting too hung up on exact order of preferences now.
Sorry for an additional digression, but to answer @sunnyschool - you can look up admission by in/oos and international. The CS major had 1611 internationals apply, 170 were accepted, 93 matriculated. OOS (non international) shows 5788 applied, 767 accepted, 213 enrolled. Instate shows 793 applied, 253 accepted, 198 enrolled for a BS in computer science.
OK, back to your regularly scheduled “reality check” thread topic.
@jym626 “but Greymeer 's numbers were incorrect”
Um no.
No offense, but you aren’t saying anything different from what I said. I’m just concise.
“29% were from OOS, 10% international” … is 40% OOS.
“OOS applications were 28,610 and 30,044 for 2018-9 and 2019-20 freshman classe”… is 30k OOS.
Like the data though.