Why didn't he get in?

My husband applied for transfer into gatech’s chemical and biomolecular engineering undergrad. He just graduated from a community college with a 3.7 gpa, thus graduating with honors, and received his associates in chemical engineering. He is a Virginia resident and a veteran. However, he was not accepted. Why?
Could the fact that he has a GED interfere with his eligibility? He also failed his first semester of college a few years back. He re-took those classes and got A’s when he went back a few years later.

A lot of applicants were not accepted to GTEch. Including a lot of transfers. Look at the accept rate and denial rate. Not st all unusual. Yes, it’s possible that the factors you brought up were the reasons. Or not. Schools rarely give out the reason for not accepting a student.

The most important school on the applications list is the one you know will accept you and you can afford. Often called the safety school. GTEch is no one’s safety.

GA Tech is exceedingly competitive in terms of admissions. Hopefully he has applied to other schools as well.

He is already accepted into Virginia tech, but they don’t have bs/ms program, nor chemical biomolecular engineering. I wonder if he should go to vatech and reapply next year…

He should go to VT and enjoy it. His degree doesn’t have to be in exactly what he wants to do. Chemical engineering is hard enough.

Agree with the above…he should go to VaTech and make the most of that opportunity.

It is hard for out of state students to be accepted to GT and even more difficult when they are transfer students. Did he have the exact classes that GT requires for Georgia Tech admission? This requirement trips up some transfer applicants. Also I know for transferring you need a very high gpa. A 3.7 is a great gpa, but for transfers I know who were accepted to Tech, their gpa was higher. Although your husband should be proud of getting A’s in classes he retook, that could be a factor as well as the GED.

VT is a great school. Have him get his undergraduate there and then apply to Tech for his masters. Good luck.

He did meet the requirements. The GED has held him back before. He wasn’t able to enter the army as an engineer because of it. Both him and I were trying to transfer to some big schools but we were rejected. Neither one of us has had a life thus far that allowed for us to prepare for college, especially an elite college. The hinderance of the past is not something we can erase and there are realities that we have to face. However, we will always strive to be better and to achieve success unique to us.

GT has a 33% acceptance rate for transfers. So his situation is par.

Please recognize that VATech is an outstanding university, especially for engineering. He has done extremely well to be accepted there and I hope he makes the most of the opportunities the school presents.