Being on Georgia Tech's Transfer Wait List

dngolladay
Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:08:26 +0000

Since somebody asked to see the response, here is the relevant part of the email:

"At this point, we do not have average GPA information broken down by major. We saw nearly a 15% increase in transfer applications for the Fall 2012 term over the previous fall semester, making for an extremely competitive applicant pool in all majors for transfer admission this year.

Unfortunately, it is very difficult to predict or “chance” admission as decisions will vary greatly depending on the strength of the competitive applicant pool. Our transfer admission decisions are made based on a review of the coursework students have taken and how well they have done in that coursework (both Overall and combined Math/Science GPAs) relative to the entire applicant pool for that major and the enrollment capacity for that major and term. We are looking for students who have maximized their transferable coursework at another institution and who have done well in that coursework."

To me, this was actually quite helpful in a not so encouraging way. It sounds like having more credit hours, especially ones relevant to your major, is part of admission considerations. Unfortunately, I’ll only be a sophmore this year and ga tech doesn’t take many of uga’s engineering credits