You probably wrote unconvincing essays.
You also directly compete with other Virginia residents.
GT offered about 3500 OOS students, Va has a population of 8.5M, 330M US total. 8.5/330 is 2.5%. 2.5% of 3500 is 90 offers. Are you in the top 90 in VA?
The top 45 males.
I will sumarize what Ivāe posted elsewhere - there are many variables besides grades and test scores that GT looks for. In addition to looking to see if the experiences, classes and activities fit the studetās interests and goals, they look in your writing not jsut for what you did, but what you plan to do. If you didntā at much attention to their motto/cision/Mission statement https://irp.gatech.edu/gt-visionmission-statements or to what they look for in the forward thinking plans/dreams/goals/ direction of their applicants https://www.gatech.edu/about/creating-next then you will not stand out from the crowd of thousands of other applicants with euqqually impressive stats.
A year or 2 ago they did their first pass through of aaacceptances without lookig at test scores and then went back through to see if the scores would have made a difference in who they accepted and who they didnt. It didnāt.
They only take ~15% of OOS applicants.
Ack for typos- They look not just at what you did, buyt your vision, your plans, and if they align with their vision and goals. If you didnāt pay much attention to this, you will blend in with the others.
I personally like Rick Clark. Itās very honest but with some humor. It addresses this topic on point
https://pwp.gatech.edu/admission-blog/2017/05/16/admission-its-not-fair/
@Knowsstuff - didnāt you already post this in post # 14?
Iād recommend reading THIS one he recently posted: http://pwp.gatech.edu/admission-blog/2020/01/31/more-and-less-part-4/
I love @knowstuffās consistency! ?
Geezā¦ Canāt remember everythingā¦
@jym626. At least on my phone the link is like going to email or somethingā¦
Might want to check the linkā¦
But I am a big fan of Rick Clarkā¦ He is so spot on.
I corrected the link. Thanks. Not sure how that link got conflated, but it should work now. See if it takes you to the article now.
Your leadership and ECs are a BIG YIKES. Every robotics team captain and their mother applies to GT. Having read a lot of profiles of students who were both rejected and accepted, I can say with certainty that you donāt stand out (like at all).
That being said, I can clearly see that you worked very hard during high school and applying to colleges can be very frustrating. Based on your academic record and test scores, I think youāll do fine in college, wherever that may be.
Good luck.
Nope. You are run of the mill for Georgia Tech and a number of schools.
You appear to have all the qualifications for GT to consider you but for whatever reasons (probably because of your essay), they donāt think you are a fit to the school.
I will repeat what the others here have said: You were NOT overqualified, as many more qualified people got in.
I do, however, think people here are incorrect for saying your rigor was too light, because they have no idea how many your school offers.
As for the AP scores, i am also OOS and I am an Asian, and I got into Electrical Engineering with 3s on both AP Calc BC (skipped AB) and AP Stats (and another AP exam). I got 4s on SEVERAL AP tests.
Everyone here is severely overestimating the effect that AP scores have on admission. Ive gotten into several top ranked engineering programs with merit scholarships with crap AP scores.
What got you rejected was definitely your essays or your extracurriculars.
A GT admissions officer told my D and I that they only look at AP scores in rare instances.
I would not be surprised if you were deferred. That fact that you got rejected outright makes me think that there might be some fatal flaws in your application.