What I mean is they offer transfer pathways and have roughly a 40% acceptance rate for transfers, but a 14% acceptance rate for freshman. They could easily just accept more freshman but wont because they know most wont pay attention to transfer acceptance rates.
Sometimes state schools are funded based on accepting transfers from community colleges (like in california) and they do not have the flexibility to accept freshmen instead.
They can’t accept more freshman because there’s nowhere for them to live, no room in the classes that they need, and no professors to teach the classes.
Transfer kids have taken all of those classes. This is exactly why the transfer pathway requires that you complete your English requirement, both semesters of calculus, two lab sciences, etc. – it takes pressure off these core classes.
Those 4000 acceptances are spread across three college years, the vast majority will not live on campus and need 3000 level plus classes. They can also accept based on applied major so they can fill holes after freshmen switch majors.
Again, the transfers have increased a lot over the past decade. Roughly 1/3 of the people that graduate from Georgia Tech are transfers. This is at least in part in response to in-state pressure to accept more in-state students. Currently, they accept 60% in state. The school does not want to increase that number, so this is their way to satisfy that pressure
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In addition to the excellent information shared by @VirginiaBelle, one can’t make any reasonable analysis based on acceptance percentages. The applicant pool for freshman is much larger than that of transfers.
All schools must work within the confines of available resources. GT is not alone in using summer/spring admits and transfer pathways to allow them to serve more students with the resources available.
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There is another factor that supports use of transfers. USNWR, the premier ranking organization, focuses on retention and 6 year graduation rates of first time freshmen. So, say, if a student can contribute to diversity of the enrolled body but seems higher risk, it is safer to bring them a year later - if they don’t make it, the university does not look bad. Also, by looking at first year grades, you can eliminate the highest risk cases.
I am not saying that it is a good practice or not, but certainly one of the reasons Universities do this.
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Any movement on the Georgia Tech waitlist?
I just received a Financial Aid verification request. OOS, waitlisted for Math at College of Sciences. Not sure what the verification implies though.
From what I understand, they (and all colleges) do it to random sets of applicants. It does not mean they suspect you did anything wrong.
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Ah! That makes sense. Thank you.
nothing yet
does the email asking " whether or not you would like to remain on on waitlist" mean anything?
They just do this periodically. They just made a waitlist pull this week of about 100 students. Sounds like many were CS.
When did you receive this? If it was after Tuesday, I would take it to mean that they will continue to pull off the waitlist at least one more time. Receiving this email is not an indicator that you will be pulled, however. They just want to be sure everyone who is currently on the waitlist still wants to be on it.
Thank you for explaining this! I received it yesterday.
Do they send this to everyone who remains on the waitlist after pulling 100 students off the list?
I do not know but I would think so , this way they can ensure they have the current status on students availability
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yes I think that goes to everyone
Do you think we will see some waitlist action today?
Has there been any further waitlist action after the mail about continuing on the waitlist?
received the email on July 8 and the waitlist has closed and they’re not offering any place in the 2028 class.