chances for out of stater

Colleges & Universities Georgia Institute of Technology
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<p>I’m debating regular vs. early decision, and I’m from NY, which sucks b/c it ruins my chances.</p>

<p>GPA-4.0 (95.5 average)
SAT- 2050 (700 critical reading, 680 math, 670 writing), not retaking
SAT II- Math IIC 730, US History- 790, Literature- 650
AP Euro History- 5
AP US History- 5
AP English Lit.- 5</p>

<p>This year I’m taking AP US Gov, AP Comparative Gov, AP Bio, AP Calculus AB, AP English Language, and a college Italian course</p>

<p>ECs- Varsity Tennis 4 years, NHS, Beach Cleanup, tutoring ESL students, summer jobs, Holocaust Committee leadership thingamagig(I am not Jewish, btw), and construction extracuriculars (i wanna be a civil engineer)</p>

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<p>Your stats look good, except maybe the SAT I Math section. The 25 percentile is 650 I believe. Your GPA is great however and that will weigh much heavier.</p>

<p>You can see a fair amount of stats here and what exactly they weigh heavily versus other things (you’ll see GPA, work experience, and volunteer experience are the highest).</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Common_Data_Set_2004/Common_Data_Set.html[/url]”>http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Common_Data_Set_2004/Common_Data_Set.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The engineering college here is great, you have tons of research opportunities and plenty of resources although the first two years are hard as hell. Once you get out of the “sophmore weed out” classes (each department has them, ECE2025, MATH2406, CS2335, I’m not sure what CEE’s is) it gets a bit less stressful.</p>

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<p>What do you mean by regular vs. early decision?</p>

<p>As far as I know, GT just does a sort of rolling admissions with common notification in March sometime. Unless you’re talking about Presidential scholarship applications?</p>

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<p>Well then, how would I do regular decision compared to most applicants?</p>

<p>I do have an internship in Romania with a construction company, so that’s about all my civil engineering work related activity. Would I do well regular decision is what I’m asking.</p>

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<p>I gt06 said it well. Your stats are pretty good. If you do well on Calc AB, it’ll probably cover for your Math scores.</p>

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<p>oh wait, they won’t see the Calc till afterwards. Never mind. Still think you have a decent shot.</p>

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<p>Emphasize your work experience related to your field in your essays or where ever is appropriate on the application. I’d say thats a rather unique quality that should make you stand out. It also makes the admissions department a little more comfortable that you are confident and sure of your major choice. </p>

<p>There are a lot of people who change major or even leave the school when they get a true taste of engineering.</p>

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<p>Look at it this way, as an out of stater you pay GT more in tuition. That has to be a plus in their eyes!</p>

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<p>Does GT use different criteria for out of state applicants than for in-state? ie, is it harder for OOS applicants?</p>

<p>I know UIUC does not, but Michigan and UNC-CH do.</p>