Very interesting. The drop from 3000 freshmen to 2400 sophomores is actually more than the 600 indicated, as the 2400 sophomores surely includes hundreds of students who transfer in sophomore year through GT’s pathway programs. What all this suggests is that INCREASING in-state acceptances at GT under the 90% proposal will LOWER GT’s test score ranges.
Here are the latest school year 2019-20 enrollment numbers:
Freshmen - 2,087
Sophomore - 3,336 (1.58% enrollment increase from previous year)
Junior - 3,965
Senior - 6,461
I searched this forum, found nothing. I called the office and was told that the recipients have already been notified. I thought at least one awardee would have posted it here.
@hbzheng- Where are the #s in your post 579 from? I don’t think what your friend told you is at all accurate. The tables for retention rates by year at GT are extremely close for both in and out of state residents.
In most schools, the biggest factor affecting retention is $. Sure, GT is hard, and some students may have trouble keeping top grades. For instate students, they may lose their HOPE or ZM scholarship and even though they can possibly get it back, they may have trouble paying the tuition for the year they lose the scholarship to return to school.
The likely reason there is a top heavy - looking “Senior year” number is not about transfers, but rather that as many students do co-ops, many students graduate in 5 years, not 4, but they are probably all listed as “seniors”.
You also have to be careful with those numbers as the Freshman enrollment numbers are almost 1000 less than what the same portal reports for enrolled for freshman admissions. Not sure what the reason for the difference is. I think some of it may be that many of the enrolling 1st years are actually classified as sophomores. My S19 was and he is classified as a Junior this semester.
I would be interested in seeing what percentage of In-state GA students who were Denied from GT, went to another in-state engineering program like KSU or GASouthern and completed the Regent program requirements…then transferred to GT and graduated. What were there stats/scores that made GT deny them as Freshman (were they 32 ACT/4.1 wGPA kids that were Top 15% types).
I would think that there are 5-10 years worth of data on these initial in-state rejections from GT, but ultimately transferred and graduated FROM GT, when coming in as a Junior.
Transfer students were admitted based only on their college performance like GPA/course selection. SAT/ACT/EC/Leadership/HS GPA are not considered so I don’t think even GT knows the HS data or collect these info. Overall transfer students are taken in with lower standards especially instate than as a freshmen from HS. GT expects transfer students to complete as much required courses so they come in and enter the major directly.
I just learned that Provost scholarship is for URM applicants. Mostly Hispanic/Latino applicants. So it is completely separated / different from Stamps scholarship.
@hbzheng The Goizueta Scholarship is for Hispanics. The Provost is for OOS:
“The Provost Scholarship awards 40 first-year, non-resident students an out-of-state tuition waiver for eight semesters. Scholars are selected by the Undergraduate Admission Committee. . . . Students selected as Provost Scholars are those who demonstrate extraordinary academic achievement, outstanding leadership skills, and have high potential to contribute inside and outside the classroom at Georgia Tech. The factors considered for selection of the Provost Scholarships are the same as for admission.”