yep, deferred → accepted CS here as well. Also, I had access to the folio before so I think that portal astrology may have worked for RD decisions.
Do all accepted students receive an invite to the GT Honors Program?
I believe everyone get offered the opportunity to apply
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Throwing in our contribution and appreciate those who have contributed:
DS24 accepted to Aerospace Engineering after initial deferral
OOS
UW GPA 4.0
SAT 1520
ACT 35
9 AP courses - 5s on science/math AP courses. 4 and 3 in non science/math APs
Varsity Baseball
Varsity Wresting and team captain
engineering and volunteer EC
Summer internship at a large aerospace company
other schools:
Rejected - MIT, UCLA
Accepted - Purdue, UIUC, U of M, Virginia Tech, UCSD
Waitlisted - UCI, UCD
Very excited about attending GT!
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Yes. It is not a traditional honors program. It is an LLC where you live in a specific dorm. Many opt not to apply for that reason. It’s not anything that is looked at more favorably by Georgia Tech or employers and the Honors kids are not more academically accomplished than other students. There are also added fees. It just comes down to whether you want to be a part of that community. It like all LLCs are a means to meet new people. Read the requirements because I think they may now require living on campus for more than freshman year, which many don’t want to do.
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Gtech says 5th of April is the deadline for waitlist opt-in form. Is it due 23:59 ET?
Yeah, probably. But just submit it early. You don’t have to do anything besides click a few buttons.
Is it possible for applicants on the waitlist to be offered a transfer Pathway if not accepted through the waitlist?
When do waitlist decisions come out? Will you get notified even if you get rejected from the waitlist?
They say after the deposit deadline and they also said they would send out an email to all when the waitlist was done.
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Yes, if you qualify for a transfer pathway, you will be offered one when the waitlist closes.
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I know that any waitlist movement will most likely happen after the May 15 deadline, but I’m curious if anyone has heard of any offers off the waitlist? I was thinking they might be offering spots in FYSA before May 15 given the logistics involved.
My daughter has not heard anything yet. We are in state.
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Last year I believe only spots offered were in FYSA I believe, not many - I want to say 40 but maybe less. The letter the FYSA waitlist admits were sent last year said Atlanta Campus was full. 2022 they took 41 people out of 4900.
Typically they release waitlist decisions on Thursday, once a week.
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Thanks so much for the info. I know it’s a long shot - I believe at least half of the 100 FYSA spots (between the two locations) go to in state students. My son wants FYSA (mentioned it in his LOCI) so he would be excited for either location.
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While most people who ending up transferring to Tech hold a pathway transfer offer. Does anyone know what transferring is like for non-pathway offer holders? Is there a stat of how many people get in as a regular transfer?
Here are the stats on the 2023 Transfer class. https://admission.gatech.edu/images/pdf/2023-Transfer-Class-Profile(w).pdf
I have heard non transfer pathway acceptance rate at Georgia Tech is around 30 percent.
Seems like they artificially lower the freshman acceptance rate, just to accept 4k more students a month later?
Has GT published some new stats on 2024 waitlist acceptance?
Not sure I understand what you mean. There is no artificial lowering of the freshman acceptance rate. About 5000 people are offered spots on the wait list. Less than one percent typically come off.
The stats linked above are for transfer students, which is a different group with different requirements.
Georgia Tech has grown their freshman class about 800 people since 2019. The majority of freshmen live in dorms and take many of the same classes. There just isn’t capacity for a larger freshman class. The largest lecture room they have is 400 people, and if everybody needs to take calculus 2, English 2, linear algebra, etc. it makes sense to expand the school (one of their goals is to expand access) by taking students who have already satisfied these requirements and who do not require housing. As you can imagine, there is also a huge amount of pressure from in-state students who want to go to one of the top engineering schools in the world for free tuition. Thousands of very qualified in-state students are rejected every year and that has put pressure on legislators and school to change this. Increasing transfer class is a solution to that.
These transfer students are upper classmen who have different class requirements and typically don’t live on campus.