<p>Hi, I'm a high school applicant to GT. I want to study astronautical engineering, and since Tech both has a great program and a great atmosphere, it's currently my top choice.</p>
<p>However, I'm definitely on the lower end of the applicant pool. I'm not going to throw out all my test scores, gpa, etc unless someone asks, but I can assure you I'm not at any advantage.</p>
<p>I was wondering if (should I be rejected) whether it would be better to apply transfer to GT after a semester, a year, or more. Is it common for GT to accept transfers after a semester? I mean, assuming I do well in the college I go to in the meantime, of course.</p>
<p>First, GT doesn’t have an astronautical engineering major. Tech has an aerospace engineering. Those are different, so you need to determine what interests you.</p>
<p>Second, to transfer to GT, you need to complete 30 hours that are transferable. So you can’t apply after 1 semester. However, if you do apply GT will only consider your college GPA and courses and will not consider your high school GPA or SAT, so you won’t be at a disadvantage.</p>
<p>To address the aero/astro engineering bit really quickly, I was under the impression that aerospace engineering is sort of a blanket term-- that is, astronautical engineering is usually studied as aerospace and then later gets more concentrated on the astro aspects. I could be wrong, though.</p>
<p>Thanks for the transfer info, I’m glad to hear that if I work hard I can clean my slate and have a better chance. :)</p>
<p>Aerospace will equip you to work in astro and aeronautical. That makes it a different program from a purely aeronautical program.</p>
<p>Some people might say “great, I’d rather be qualified in two fields than one”, but you need to consider that to qualify you in astro and aero, the program sacrifices some depth in each area.</p>
<p>Just curious, not trying to be rude-- do you work at Tech, or are you a student/alum? I appreciate the info and I noticed you posting a lot around here.</p>
<p>I’m right in the middle of the transfer process with GATech and I’ve spent a lot of time researching it and talking with admission counselors (I even met with one). Transferring to GATech is not difficult at all. In fact, if you meet the minimum requirements, you’re very likely to be accepted. The requirements:
2.70 GPA overall
2.70 GPA in your math courses at and above Calculus 1 and natural science lab courses
<p>Those minimum GPA’s vary for in-state, out-of-state, and international students. They also vary by major.</p>
<p>In addition, they tell people that you’ll be admitted with the minimum GPA, but if you search around here you’ll find people that have been denied. It seems to me based on the posts of others that around a 3.5 is considered competitive for a transfer.</p>
<p>Yes, there are some varying GPA requirements for the more competitive majors. They are listed on the admissions website. For most majors, it’s 2.70 all around.</p>
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<p>I met with a transfer counselor the other day to talk about my situation and I asked him why a 2.70 is just as competitive as a 4.00. He told me, and it’s consistent with everything else I’ve heard, that they base the minimum requirements on the number of applications they typically receive and how many transfer slots they can fill. I was told that this year they are not getting as many applications for transfer so most of those that are meeting the minimum requirements for their major into will be accepted.</p>
<p>Any idea why some of these guys were denied admission? Transfer acceptance rates for GATech are not that high… typically around 40% I believe. However, as a counselor told me… almost everyone that is denied was so because they failed to meet at least one of the requirements. Usually it’s a required course or the math/science lab GPA isn’t at least 2.70. Speaking of GPA… they round off to the nearest hundredth of a point. Having a 2.65 rounds up to a 2.7, but not 2.70. Their website lists a 2.7 as the minimum GPA… but it’s really 2.70 for both areas.</p>
<p>For in-state students. It is different for out of state (3.0) and international (3.5). The premium programs that require higher GPAs are Biomedical Engineering, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.</p>
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<p>That GPA requirement has not changed in at least 5 years, so that explanation makes no sense. In addition - think about it. What makes you think that someone with a 2.7 GPA at a community college will have a higher GPA at GT? Do you think the school wants to inflate the number of <2.5 GPA students? That’s not good for the school or for the student.</p>
<p>Why does GT automatically admit students with a 2.7 GPA from some schools but reject students with the same GPA from other schools? Politics. People in South Georgia do not like the fact that all major research universities in Georgia are in the north half of the state. As a result, the research schools (specifically UGA and GT) have campuses in the south half of the state and have guaranteed transfer programs with smaller colleges all over Georgia.</p>
<p>I agree with BanjoHitter, i know a couple of people who got denied even with their gpa being around 3.0(overall & math/science). These were in-state students applying to programs like IE and CS with minimum gpa of 2.7. I also know someone who just barely had a 2.7 and got in, but his major was management. A friend of mine got in with a 3.1(math and science) and ~3.4(overall) in ME but they made him repeat 2 math classes (calc 3 and DE) because he had gotten C’s in both of them. All of the people I mentioned above went to GPC. At transfer FASET most of the students that i met had gpas well above 3.5. Although the transfer counselors say 2.7 is just as good as 4.0, i highly doubt that, especially for engineering programs(the ones that have 2.7 as their minimum gpa). Not sure why they say it, i guess it is to encourage more people to apply?</p>
<p>They say they dont consider which school you are transferring from as long as you have taken the required classes and have the gpa. I find that hard to believe though.</p>
<p>Hi I am an international transfer student in Sophomore year having Mechanical Engineering.
Can anyone tell me what GPA would be required if I apply for aerospace engineering at G.Tech</p>
<p>OP is right. If you meet the minimum requirements you’re 99% likely to get accepted. This year fall (fall 2011) had the highest amount of transfer applicants who met the minimum requirements in GT’s history, and they still accepted all of them. There were ~800 of them, so they increased their minimum requirements. They now require a 3.0 GPA for most majors (in state) and 3.3 (again, in state) for the more competitive majors. They added Industrial Engineering to the list of competitive majors (it is now Biomedical Engineering, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering). </p>
<p>Just because you heard some guy say he got denied and met all the minimum requirements doesn’t mean he did. He may have taken Intro to Chem rather than General Chem. He may have calculated his GPA differently than GT did. He may be lying because he doesn’t want to admit he wasn’t good enough or took the wrong class. Half the students at GPC claim to have gotten twice the SAT score and GPA they really did and by some act of God didn’t get admitted. Most people who get denied by any college are not happy about it and have a lot of incentive to exaggerate their qualifications.</p>
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<p>Don’t just “think about it.” You’re definitely looking over many factors. Don’t forget, transfer students usually do very well at tech. </p>
<p>I speculate that the reason Tech has such high standards for incoming freshmen and lower standards for transfer students is due to a few things. First, their class stats are based on their incoming freshmen and not their transfer students. Second, freshmen level classes are FULL, because everyone is taking the same classes. It makes sense that GT wouldn’t want to use so much of their world-class professors teaching freshmen classes. They send the less savory students off to a community college first, and use them to fill the upper level classes later. I think a lot of students who are initially denied are less secure and therefore more motivated to work hard in school. Again, this is speculation.</p>