I have a sibling who is currently attending Georgia Tech and is expected to graduate in 2028. When I answered “Yes” to the common app question “Have any relatives ever attended Georgia Tech?”, I entered my sibling’s name. After that, I was asked to indicate the “Number of degrees received from this college.”
If I select “No degree,” there’s no option to specify that my sibling is a current student. However, if I select “1 degree,” it lets me choose “Current Student,” but the “Year received” field only goes up to 2026 and doesn’t include 2028.
Could anyone please clarify how I should complete this section to accurately indicate that my sibling is a current student expected to graduate in a few years? Thanks.
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Being OOS, we were all geared up to submit her application this past week until realizing that the 10/15 early action was only for in-state students, lol.
Something to consider. While GT looks for evidence of interest and preparation for the major submitted on application, once you are accepted and register you can change major to anything but computer science.
At the time we applied, I didn’t know that ME has the lowest OOS acceptance rate of all the engineering majors (all these figures are Fall 2025 for female OOS applicants):
College of Engineering Overall 13.2%
Mechanical 10.4%
Biomedical 13.0%
Aerospace 11.0%
Chemical/Biomolecular 14.1%
Civil 15.8%
Electrical 13.3%
Industrial 19.6%
Materials Science 29.8%
Male applicants have it even tougher with some engineering acceptance rates one-half of female acceptance rates, e.g. 7.9% overall, 5.2% ME
Thanks for those numbers! My D26 (OOS) applied this year for Biomedical, and I expected that the acceptance rate would be significantly lower than average, since I think of it as a popular major. It’s a relief that it seems to have been about average, at least for Fall 2025.
Your numbers are off. What is your source? The overall acceptance rate for 2029 Class OOS was around 9-10%. This is published by the school. Or, are you saying that of the OOS students accepted for Engineering 13.2% were female? Because that number seems awful low as well.
Georgia Tech doesn’t admit based on Engineering major choice in application. Any true breakdown in % for different engineering majors is just by circumstance and preference. When you are admitted to Georgia Tech for Engineering, your student will be given the choice/opportunity to change their major within the School of Engineering prior to even starting classes, if they so wish and again after their first year. The only exception here is Computer Science. The breakdown that poster gave I believe is simply the % of first year students in that particular engineering discipline and not an acceptance rate for that major for the reason I state above. Once you are accepted into Engineering at Georgia Tech, you can go in any direction you choose for engineering discipline. Just one of the many things we love about GT.
My understanding is that even though they don’t admit strictly by major, they do strive to build a class with a reasonable balance across majors, so major choice does have an influence on admission. I am sure I read something like this in a GT admissions blog post, but I don’t have the specific post handy.
Holistic admission is utilized to ensure enrollment of a first-year class who will be innovative thinkers and problem solvers. Enrolling a breadth of students from many backgrounds has proven to be fertile soil for creativity. We also want a class who studies a variety of disciplines, so the major you put on your application and evidence of your interest in this major is an indicator of how you would fit in the upcoming class. These are examples of institutional priorities, and how factors outside of your GPA and test scores will affect your admission decision.
The female acceptance rate is typically one and a half times the male acceptance rate. So if overall acceptance rate is 8% for OOS it would make sense that average female out of state acceptance rate is 13%. As mentioned above the acceptance rate for men is much lower. Of course, acceptance rates are merely a function of how many people apply. Many more men apply to Georgia Tech, so their acceptance rate is lower as the target is an evenly divided class. ME is the most popular major so they have to take fewer ME students than other less popular majors. All of this information is published in the Georgia Tech Fact Book on their website. My guess is that is where it came from.
Crazy about mechanical engineering. My youngest applied as an ME and got in early, but he was between ME and industrial. Glad I didn’t know that back then!
Well, the poster also stated “all these figures are Fall 2025 for female OOS applicants”. The link you supplied was for Fall 2024. So, can’t be where that came from.
Maybe from https://lite.gatech.edu/ ? Selecting US citizen, out of state resident, female: Mech E 10.5% for 2025-26; College of Eng overall 14%. Maybe tinker with the variables a bit.
I highly highly doubt this works but if you inspect element for in-state students application portal, go to sources press Cntrl + r and then use the search feature in the inspect tab to search “admit” a lot of things pop up such as admit checklist, pay your deposit and other stuff for what looks like it should be for admitted students. This technique worked for 2 other schools, but those schools aren’t top tech schools like ga tech.
Also possible the poster has an in with a counselor who gets this data. Just based on the generalized information I have it sounds like the numbers are probably correct or close.
has anyone heard EA 1 in-state decision release day? College Navigator on IG said 12/5 at 7pm but I cannot confirm this anywhere official. I DM’d her to see where she found this out. She reported it was said at a presentation? Can anyone confirm this?
UGA comes out this Friday at 4pm. My kid will be on a bus going to an away game with the band (to a school near Athens, actually). I know of at least two seniors who applied to UGA (mine did not) – I hate that release time for them.
Last cycle, waiting for my son to check his portal after decisions were released when he was playing an away game in basketball and wouldn’t be home sometimes until 10 pm was brutal.
