There are MANY more reasons that go into choosing a college beyond cost and prestige. Just because MIT is what your children want does not mean that is what others want. Georgia Tech likely understands this and does not yield protect.
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Actually, in my sonās school districts, kids with high GPA and not applying to CS got in. Kids with very high GPA and applying to CS got deferred. Kids with high GPA and applying to CS got rejected.
OOS.
MIT conducts EA not ED session.
So GT may reject the applicants who seem likely to be accepted by MIT. There is nothing wrong to do that. There are a great number of applicants and many excellent applicants. GT may choose to offer the precious admission to the students who are strong and likely to enroll.
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38% admit rate in EA1 (in-state)
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Good luck in RD everyone. Yield protection isnāt a thing. Support your kids in making the best decision where they will attend.
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Yield protection is a thing, but I would agree not at Georgia Tech.
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Math major maybe. Engineering more debatable. For some kids, it comes down to the vibe of the campus. You could not have paid two of my kids to go to MIT. My third would have been 50/50. My current GT freshman couldnāt leave fast enough - but he loved Harvard (didnāt apply). MIT is an amazing place with great opportunities, but it appeals to a unique personality. Not a debate but there are reasons to choose Georgia Tech over MIT, other than financial, and we know kids who have. Agree with others that yield protection out of state from Georgia Tech is very unlikely. You just canāt get in everywhere. Obviously, both great schools.
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holistic admissions ensures not all the same kids get into each school. Makes sense to me even if less predictable.
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Agree completely. And Georgia Tech is super different from MIT. We went to MIT and walked around it with my freshman and had a tour. The football stadium was smaller than his high school stadium, and the kids he interacted with were odd. Very smart, but very very odd. Very different than GT. He would have been totally unhappy there, and that is one of the biggest indicators of success in college. He knew it and wanted to leave ASAP. Fit is the most important thing I think.
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Isnāt GT pretty dorky too?
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Iām not in this boat but off top of my head - weather, cost, ACC sports.
Kids pick the lesser every day. The famous one because of her essay is the kid who chose Auburn over Yale.
But my daughterās BFF at Charleston show it over Rice, Vandy, Penn.
My own kids chose safeties and there are a solid % at every school that didnāt go to the highest ranked.
Yes, MIT is beyond most other schools - but to think that someone would never turn down a school of any ilk for another - and in this case - another in the same hemisphere - is foolish. Kids, quite frankly, turn down top level schools for unranked schools every day - both mine in fact.
Some things are just hard to accept.
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Georgia Tech has a pretty robust party scene, particularly Greek life. Many students from surrounding schools (GSU, Emory, Kennesaw) come to Tech every weekend. MIT is nothing like GT in terms of social life.
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Not really. Not nearly the same. Itās a D1 sports school and sports are important. My current freshman played two sports in high school, works out 4 to 5 times a week. Plays IM sports. Also plays pickup basketball multiple times a week. Goes to football and basketball games. Joined a fraternity. Very social place.
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Good to hear. Perception at my school is as not a very social place.
This is absolutely true. Georgia Tech is a very social place. It tends to attract people that are more more social versus MIT, which was absolutely not giving out that vibe.
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Iāve got two kids at Georgia Tech. One graduated in December and one is a freshman. It is super social maybe even as social as the school up the road UGA. The difference that I see is maybe social stuff starts on Thursday versus Tuesday but there is a lot going on.
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