What are my chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Georgia Institute of Technology
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In-state student in a rural public school
Asian female
Declared BME (but I might call and ask if I could change my declared major, bc BME is extremely competitive)

GPA: 4.87/5 (weighted)
Rank: 8/590
SAT: 1400 (700 M, 700 CRW)
Course rigor: took 10 AP classes so far, will have 16 by the end of HS, took AP calc and AP physics a year earlier than most of my grade (was one of 4 juniors in the class)
ECs: I don’t want to give out specifics for privacy reasons

  • President of a service club and an honor society (very involved and organized a lot of service projects in one)
  • Treasurer of FBLA
  • volunteer at the hospital
    -in a national science competition team
  • tutoring
    Summer: volunteering at the hospital, taking classes, I interned in a genetics lab at Emory
    Got some good awards
    Essays were 7-8/10, Recs were 10/10

I feel like I have good chances, especially because a boy in my school last year got in with worse ECs and a girl in my school also got in who was around 60 in rank. But I don’t know if I compare to the applicant pool…

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bump

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bump…

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Are the boy and girl who got admitted last year Asians?

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@bogeyorpar the boy was African American and the girl was white

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Would it hurt if there are others from my school applying for the same major and even more applying to the school itself? I would say there are about 10 people applying, in total.

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I can’t imagine having 10 students from your school applying to GT hurting your chances since it’s an in-state university. I’m really surprised that it’s only 10 out of 590.

Your stats are very similar to my D, so I’d love to say that you’ve got a great chance. Your SAT is at the low end of the 50% range, so I’d say that you’ve got a decent chance. We’re OOS, so it’s not looking that great for her.

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@shortnuke I only say this because, the ten that are applying are within my range and some are even higher in rank. Last year, only three applicants got accepted from my school (not sure about how many applied though).

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@shortnuke I want to call and have my prospective major changed to something less competitive…such as economics which is an interest to me or public policy. I would start out taking the same intro classes and be able to switch the next semester, right?

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Calling to change now may look bad.