Ye I got a 30 min drive but how would I incorporate it without sounding spoiled
actually - it wouldnât be cheaper. If you want cheap and youâre NMF, you have options for cost free.
If youâre not NMF, you have options for under $20K a year all in, cheaper than in state and outcomes similar to NC State.
btw - if you add a Masters, now you have more tuition and lost income.
UNC simply makes zero sense here, if the goal is to be an engineer.
What makes where you live unique? How does living where you live give you a different perspective from your classmates who live in the city where you go to school?
I know a kid who in her college essays called her home, âthe farm.â Her family had sheep, chickens, and maybe some other animals, but she really lived in an affluent part of town that is zoned for three acre lotsânot typically what one would think of as a farm.
Still, I imagine her essays were quite interesting. She had many things to talk about that typical suburban and urban kids certainly never experience.
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I live right next to a horse ranch, ig whatâs different Abt my home is how far it is from everything
I can see a number of ways to go with this information. Do you ever interact with the ranch owners, workers, or visitors? With the horses? Maybe you spend time observing/meditating as the horses graze or while theyâre being ridden? Maybe the horses have made you curious about how sustainable the ranch is or how animals are treated? Try to remember things that by your living next to a horse ranch your curiosity was triggered.
I think living far from everything could also be great material for some interesting essays. Has this made you more resourceful? A better planner? Why do your parents live there? Are their reasons helpful to your life? Do you value living there (maybe you love being able to see the stars/not having any noise from your neighbors, maybe itâs made you a better driver or you love driving, or how the horse ranch smells?) or do you wish you lived in the city (maybe you feel guilty about burning all the fossil fuel required to get to and from school everyday or just wish you could study at a Starbucks?).
Remember, your living situation is likely different from the vast number of applicants. Tell the admissions reps why this makes you a more interesting candidate than the kid who lives in a four bedroom Colonial on a cul-de-sac. Lots of good possibilities!
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Curious why Duke is reach and GT is target? Similar acceptance rates. Duke is actually higher than GT OOS if you apply ED. Duke, like many private schools, takes the bulk of its acceptances through ED programs so RD rate is miniscule. ED is around 12 percent though. Georgia Tech is 8 percent.
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You will get into Auburn. Apply early before the first deadline though. It is an easy application. It is actually a great engineering school and a great safety. My Georgia Tech kid really liked it.
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Any speeding at all would be reckless. I certainly would not admit to a crime in my college applications!
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Thanks, didnât realize how unique living in the middle of nowhere was
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I thought duke was like wayyyy harder to get into, but now that u mention that maybe they are both reaches
I was going to try to relate it to my hobby of making fast drones, and eventually either I would fly planes or something like that
Yea my counselor said that it has rolling admissions and should be a safety
We are in state for Georgia Tech and I have two kids there. One of them would have gone to MIT had he gotten in (waitlisted). Other one hated it. It is amazing for the right person but not for everyone (I hated it too 
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Iâm not sure it is. We live in the middle of the woods in an area with two acre minimum zoning. Around us there is 4 acre zoning. My kids both applied to urban colleges. I donât believe their place growing up had a speck of impact on their college admissions.
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It is not really rolling. There are several fall deadlines, and each deadline hears by a certain date. Just a good one to do over the summer and submit asap because it is nice to know you are in a good program early. Auburn engineers are well respected and the school itself is a great place to spend 4 years. They also give merit and typically the sooner you apply the more likely you are to get it (they run out). My kid that applied got the Presidential Scholarship (17k a year), which cuts tuition in half but doesnât bring it to in state level. NC State would be a better choice and you will almost certainly get in but I would still apply to Auburn just in case. And please avoid anything controversial in your essays!!! That could change the whole analysis!
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Still a terrible idea! Relate it some other way. This is a great way to get rejected from even safety schools (as is mentioning you created a bomb!!!).
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so gtech is the way to go? i think its prob the best school I can actually get into but idk its super competitive now
i see, im too much of a menace for them
keep it basic for the essays?
Georgia Tech is a high reach. Their OOS acceptance rate last year was 8 percent. They have the #2 undergrad Aerospace program in the nation, and the number 2 mechanical engineering undergrad in the nation. MIT is #1 in both. So that should give you an idea of the elite nature of that program.
To get in in state you need your stats - my in state sophomore had a 35 ACT, 4.0, 11 APs top 5 percent at a top private prep school. My other GT grad was the valedictorian of that prep school. OOS is harder. They donât take anyone from our school in state that is below 10 percent and because you are OOS it will be much tougher. Apply but it is a high reach
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