Will seventh semester grades be considered in the admissions process?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Georgia Institute of Technology
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<p>If I sent them in, would they be looked at holistically with my application?</p>

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<p>Why’d you send in a transcript? You should just put them in the online application.</p>

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<p>I won’t get my seventh semester grades until after the January 10 deadline has passed.</p>

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<p>Have you done your application yet? If it asks for those grades you should put them, but I believe they only ask for senior schedule, then you send an official transcript at the end of the year (if you end up going there).</p>

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<p>So they won’t consider your seventh semester grades in the holistic review of the application?</p>

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<p>What I’m trying to say is, will your Georgia Tech GPA be recalculated with your seventh semester grades?</p>

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<p>I really don’t think there’s a “holistic review” of applications. It’s pure numbers. An external reviewer (a high school counselor they’ve trained) gives your EC’s a numerical score, then that score + your GPA + your SAT + a correction factor for your school are standardized, entered into a weighted average, and the top scores are accepted.</p>

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<p>What’s the “correction factor”?</p>

<p>And do you also know if they’ll recalculate your GPA with your first semester senior grades if you send them in after the January 10 application deadline?</p>

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<p>More difficult school vs. easier school, probably determined based on historical performance of that school’s students at GT. </p>

<p>Intuitively, a student with a 3.4 from a school where the valedictorian had a 3.6 is very different than a student with a 3.4 from a school where the top 25% cut-off was a 3.6.</p>

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<p>Will being an average student in terms of your school give you a correction factor that will hurt you?</p>

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<p>The correction factor is for the school, not the student. So two students from the same school get the same correction. To give you an analogy, when I interviewed students from GT and UF (among other places), I knew that UF was an easier school. So I required the UF applicants to have a higher GPA than the GT students. While I’d take a 3.0 from GT, I’d need at least a 3.5 from UF. So if I had 10 UF students and 10 GT students, I compared their GPA by taking off half a point from each UF applicant.</p>

<p>Again, this is how I <em>think</em> they do it based on publicly released information, particularly the publicly available minutes of certain administrative committees at Tech.</p>