What are my son’s chances? He’s a rising senior. He is interested in GA Tech, Industrial Engineering. He will graduate High School with an AP Capstone Diploma. I’m not sure how GA Tech weighs AP classes, but his school weighted GPA is 4.23 and unweighted is 3.76. He will graduate with 9 AP credits, and the remainder of his courses are Honors.
His composite ACT is 32, and if super scored 34. He has a 740 in Math 1 and 710 Math 2 SAT Subject Test. His highest level math course will be Calc BC. He got a 5 on Calc AB AP test.
He will be applying out of state. Extra curricular activities include overseas medical mission work (3 summers), competitive chess player (95th percentile in Junior level in state), piano, HOBY (leadership) participant, varsity lacrosse player, participant in Economics For Leaders, University of Texas, summer 2015.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and any insight offered!
Your son has more or less the exact same stats as I did last year (3.8 unweighted, 4.23 weighted, 33 act, same number of APs, 740 SAT math II before i retook for 800). I got in EA. If he applies EA i think he’ll have a really good shot at getting in!
Thank you for the encouragement! Do you apply to college of IE as incoming Freshman, or at end of Sophomore year? Good luck!!
I applied as a physics major, but i’m pretty sure that he can apply as a freshman and get in.
You do not apply for a specific major at Tech. All applicants are evaluated for admission to the Institute as a whole and are free to change their major at any point during the application process or before classes start, including at the FASET orientation immediately prior to freshman class registration. After classes start, each student is allowed one free change of major within the first two semesters. This can be used to change to any major without restriction. After the grace period, some majors have restrictions based on prior coursework or GPA, but unless your son’s GPA falls below a 3.0, I don’t imagine that being an issue. All majors at Tech also start freshman year, so your son would not have to wait to apply to any particular major. With that said, there is an option to pursue an “undeclared engineering” major as a freshman, which would allow him to take a freshman seminar geared towards helping freshman choose a specific major within the College of Engineering.