<p>GT used to be a really prestigious school that wasn't all that hard to get into. But now I see people with 2300's and 3.8's getting waitlisted and I begin to seriously doubt if I have a chance here (3.5 and likely 1400+/2100).</p>
<p>One thing you have to know is that there are [a</a> lot of applications](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/06/AR2006040602292.html]a”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/06/AR2006040602292.html) going out these days. Colleges are becoming selective and turning away people not because the kids don’t deserve to get in but because they simply don’t have enough room to accept everyone who applies. </p>
<p>And that’s not even to say that there are a lot of people applying. People these days send out dozens of applications, playing the whole “safety/match/reach” game. A lot of people on the waitlist will probably get in if they were crowded out by people who were only using Tech as a “safety” or have an eye on some other school as their “dream” school. I wouldn’t worry too much about not getting in as long as you keep up your good grades and work on the rest of your application.</p>
<p>plus you might wanna read up GP’s post in the wait list topic</p>
<p>Apply early (before October 1) and show a lot of interests in Tech. Take time to visit Tech and join a program like Connect with Tech. With a lot of good candidates, it is intangible factor that make one stand out.</p>
<p>im surprised too.</p>
<p>If you present your case well I’m pretty sure you have a decent shot. You have about the same GPA I had, and a higher SAT. And I got waitlisted.</p>
<p>There are also a ton of other factors involved here, ECs, strength of schedule, school strength, etc. Don’t count yourself out just yet! You haven’t even started the application process yet…</p>
<p>funny, I just commented about it on the “Find out Early!” thread. </p>
<p>it’s making me rather sad to see all these excellent applicants being turned away. but you’re right, Jahaba, perhaps they’re just trying to raise the enrollment rate?</p>
<p>A few things to consider:</p>
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<li><p>These are all self-reported scores. It wouldn’t be uncommon for someone with a 1900 SAT score to post complaining about how unfair it is that he was wait listed with his 2100 SAT score (in order to induce some sympathy from others).</p></li>
<li><p>You don’t know what else is in the application. There are some really bad essays that are sent to colleges. </p></li>
<li><p>Raising the enrollment rate is counterproductive if it comes at the expense of decreasing the average SAT score / GPA.</p></li>
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<p>In rebuttal to point 3, all you’d have to do to raise the enrollment rate and keep the average SATs and GPAs in the same area is accept more students on both extremes of the spectrum.</p>
<p>(ie. Admitting a 1700, then admitting a 2000 would yield a 1850 average SAT.)</p>
<p>However, points 1 and 2 are spot on as usual.</p>
<p>What did you mean by your first point, G.P? Sorry, I’d let it go, but I’m actually really curious about what you meant.</p>
<p>I kinda agree with Veracity as well; all these super high scores and preeetty low scores are getting admitted. average–not so many.</p>
<p>The problem is that enrollment data is based on the matriculated students, not the admitted students. If you admit a 1700 SAT student and a 2300 SAT student with the hope of averaging the SAT scores, you have a problem because the 2300 SAT student is much less likely to enroll than the 1700 SAT student. So to make the expectation larger, you need to admitted many more 2300 SAT students than 1700 SAT students, which reduces your admission rate.</p>
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<p>When a student isn’t admitted, he often times might feel like he was “robbed” (i.e. that the school made an unfair decision). To make him feel better, he’ll often complain on a site like this, hoping to get some sympathy and comments along the lines of “you should have gotten in” (essentially, an affirmation of the poster’s worth). However, he knows that if he posts “I was robbed! 1800 SAT / 3.5 GPA!”, people will respond “what did you expect?” So, instead that person might post “I was robbed! 2100 SAT / 3.7 GPA” in order to elicit the “you should have gotten in” affirmation posts.</p>
<p>I’m not saying that’s the case for everyone, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was playing a role here.</p>
<p>I was using numbers lower than 2300+…</p>
<p>The data set has to have a much tighter range then what you are implying.</p>
<p>I was thinking more like 1800s to 2100s were the extremes they were shooting for.</p>
<p>W/e…I just don’t think the GT Admissions people have any clue what they are doing. Whoever devised their system of admitting people must have been smoking tons of weed while they did it. Going mainly by GPA is an absolutely stupid idea. The SAT/ACT is there so we have a STANDARDIZED way of ranking how smart people are - you can’t do that with GPA while stupid Georgian schools give students 5 pt inflation for each Honors class and 10 pt inflation for AP classes on the UNWEIGHTED AVERAGE.</p>
<p>If I was going to public school right now, I could be reading Jerry Spinelli books for english and poems by Shel Silverstein and getting A+'s every quarter.</p>
<p>I agree with you 100%, SLightManifesto, it really isn’t fair.</p>
<p>Also, I got a 93 in my US History class, and it wasn’t exactly EASY to get that… but my friend got like 96 in a US History class with an easy teacher. I really think transcripts should be in this format: Class name, your grade, class average.</p>
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<p>Seriously? I’d have at least a 3.7 GPA / 4.0 if that were the case in CT. ***?</p>
<p>Anyway, there is no point in talking about it anymore I suppose. I didn’t expect to get in, and I was actually semi-relieved that I did get straight out rejected.</p>
<p>GP, I know someone with better than a 2100 AND better than a 3.7 who was waitlisted. If the average admitted student had a Georgia Freshman Index of 3372 (calculated from admission stats elsewhere on this board), then a 2100 (if 700 on each part) and 3.7 place that student below average.
There are some surprised students today - I doubt many, if any, people are fibbing about scores, although I can imagine some are unsure of what GPA tech used so there may be some inadvertant “fibs” about that.
Average GPA for in-state admits is 3.98 - that’s less than one B in four years of high school.
Tech should have an outstanding freshman class.</p>
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<p>F this school and my life.</p>
<p>how was your essay? maybe people should post their essays and see if they’re significantly better/worse than others?</p>
<p>Look at it this way SLight, at least you know what to expect next year.</p>
<p>Nah, don’t post your essay. Someone could steal it (it’s been done before). I’m sure there wasn’t too much variation in essays.</p>
<p>EDIT: ^I know, right? I just felt like this school was a 110% fit in every category and I’m sad I won’t get in. Looks like I will have to settle for Chambana (Atlanta >>> Chambana I would guess).</p>