@xGunner
It depends. The 10% in student application is surely a factor but it won’t sway a decision between yes and no unless you were a borderline admit. Clear admits will stay this way and clear rejects will stay this way. Borderline cases will be reviewed with a harsher eye IMO because they will receive more “clear admits”. I’m fairly confident it’ll be like this.
Super interesting data! Thanks a lot
What do u say is an absolute yes or no decision
my son is a freshman at GT this year and when he heard last year (EA) there was financial aid mentioned, but its need based only. they dont offer academic scholarships to freshman (unless you are Ga resident and then i think there is a HOPE scholarship)
what major did you apply to? that makes a difference in the acceptance rates. OOS applying to engineering at GT is about 6-9%
Computer Science OOS
My D20 is also out of state for computer science. GPA: 4.0 unweighted 4.9 weighted with a bunch of AP classes. 35 ACT. Varsity sport, and some good ECs. Fingers crossed she will get admitted but I know it is super tough for out of state.
@mcfamilyof4 That is debatable. GT claims they don’t accept by major and the fact that they allowed all incoming Freshman to change major to any that they wanted before school started lends some credence to that. Now if you look at the numbers ( https://lite.gatech.edu/) you can see that it is not all equal acceptance rate across the board for all schools/majors but that is expected as we don’t know if that was because of that major or just that happened to be the qualification of the applicants to that major. For last year, fall admissions OOS acceptance to COE was 16.5% and College of Computing was 12.7%.
How is your son doing first semester? My son seems to be really enjoying it and thriving. He joined 2 choirs and a Fraternity (to our surprise). He will be doing GT Lorraine next summer and picked up an undergraduate research position for next semester. Academically things seem to be going well (fingers crossed for finals).
@racereer What major is your son? My D applied EA to GT COE and I am concerned based on things I have read that the classes at GT are so hard that ones grades are low such that it makes it hard to transfer out if one wanted to transfer. Does your S find the classes extremely harder than expected?
@Mom2NND my son is a Material Science Engineering major and is finishing up his first semester. In general, he says the classes so far have not been much harder than expected. Not that they are easy, just not extremely difficult. He felt well prepared. Now, he came out of a regional STEM Governor’s high school where he took dual enrolled college chemistry, engineering physics, MV calc, Linear Algebra, and Diffeq. Almost all of these credits transferred in so he is gets to “skip” some of the harder 1st year math and science classes. He is retaking Diffeq this semester as it is a 4 credit class at GT but was only 3 credits DE. He is doing 16 credits of which 2 are choirs and was able to get into some of his MSE classes. It is looking like he has a shot at all As this semester. There is one class he is right around the A/B line depending on where the curve falls, so he will have to do really well on the final for an A.
@janiemiranda My son is a freshman at GA Tech with the same stats (also valedictorian) and got in EA. We are in state but with those stats you have an excellent chance out of state, particularly because there is an active push to recruit more women in STEM at Tech. I think she has a very good chance!
@Mom2NND your question wasn’t directed to me but I will answer it :). GT is definitely difficult but not impossible. The kids that get in to trouble from what I can tell are the ones who never had to/learned how to study in high school. My son was used to studying several hours every night and balanced it with a full load of ECs. We also had lots of discussion before he left about time management and using your daytime hours to get your work done (nothing is ever happening during the day anyway), and the fact that going to class is the easiest thing you can do to stay on top of things. Looks like he will have all As this semester (freshman engineering major) if exams go as planned. They do remind you multiple times at orientation that essentially the whole class was top 10 percent of their high school, and now 90 percent of you won’t be. The earlier you can wrap your head around that the better!
@VirginiaBelle Thank you for the response about my daughter’s chances. 
I hope you are right. I see there is a women’s recruitment team at GA Tech and I was half expecting someone from that group to reach out to her (another school’s academic recruitment team contacted her) but crickets from GA Tech.
Looks like this thread picked up some steam…
@VirginiaBelle
Great insight, thanks! I definitely struggle with time management myself and it has left me with quite the ‘chip on my shoulder’ so to say in regards to all the missed opportunities.
I’m firm on the importance of time management, it is crucial!!!
Back to Gtech, EA decision release date is January 18th, 2019. This date shows up on my applicant portal, I’m not sure how recent it is!
@yungkaviar D just saw a post from GT saying same info- EA release date is now Jan 18 at 10:00 am.
My son received an email from GATech Admissions office and EA release date: 18 Jan 2020.
I hate having to wait so long 
Just checked my portal and it updated the decision date from “mid-January” to January 18. ■■■ xd
Can anyone verify if different majors are “easier” to get into. I know GT is known for STEM, but I am applying to their business school. Does anyone know the average scores for the typical undergrad business admit, or are they the same? Thanks!
We recently took a tour and listened to a presentation form Admissions. The AO said that they don’t care about your major but they look at it to better understand your application. Also, they let students change majors easily.
With all that, I think there is a little bump to some under represented majors if the ECs and essays don’t contradict the major choice. Like if you have all this coding stuff and then list business they’re not buying it! lol.
Good Luck!