Does anyone know the OOS stats for those freshman admitted in 2024-2025 school year?
Just want to prepare my son. We visited GT today (self-guided tour) and he really likes Atlanta/ GT but I know OOS acceptance is like 10 percent.
Does anyone know the OOS stats for those freshman admitted in 2024-2025 school year?
Just want to prepare my son. We visited GT today (self-guided tour) and he really likes Atlanta/ GT but I know OOS acceptance is like 10 percent.
We have a friend who was deferred and waitlisted with SAT 1600, and 4.0 UW for CS OOS - from top 5 magnet in the country and all possible AP and magnet classes. Kid was eventually accepted, but the point is there are enough top applicants to fill GaTech seats 10 times.
GaTech admission will fill class based on institutional interests. Gender, location, major, interests etc.
Reading this thread with interest, as weâre trying to discern whether GT would be a good fit for my daughter. Sheâs a junior at a small private school, not elite but one that prepares kids well for college IMHO. Itâs in-state and sends 5 to 10 kids to GT every year out of a class of 125 or so.
The âhustleâ aspect concerns me. Sheâs certainly bright â 1560 SAT on first try sophomore year, doing well in AP Physics, AP Calc, honors architecture/engineering, etc. She spends long hours in marching band (leadership) and other extracurriculars and gets her work done. Sheâs pretty good at using school hours to finish things.
BUT, she has ADHD, starting long papers is excruciating, procrastination is also real, and sheâs not interested in a school thatâs a grind. Sheâs my creative, artsy, dreamer type â loves to create. At GT, sheâd be looking at computational media (for the game design and UX/UI aspects) or industrial design. She has zero CS background.
Sheâd also want to be in marching band â itâs very much a nerdy passion and social outlet for her. I think ideally sheâd love a small school environment, but itâs nearly impossible to find game design or UX/UI at a small college that also has football and a fun marching band.
Is GT even worth considering for her? She did quite like the campus and vibe when we toured â we live in the burbs, so she really appreciated the opportunity to be in the middle of the city, but still have nice green space. (And not gonna lie, in-state with Zell is obvs a huge bonus for us.)
My older daughter is at Rice, and it is a grind â but she is thriving and still finding time for fun. (Same high school, and it did indeed prepare her well.) But she has always been an overachiever. I worry about my younger one crashing and burning in college because sheâs a really different kid than her sister. (I mean, of course, but you get my point.)
Thoughts?
@SpreadsheetMom ⊠well this certainly isnât your first rodeo!!! I too have an older kiddo and often get equally anxious over son 2 & 3 when they go through things in life⊠although I tend to breathe and realize everything works out fine in the end.
At GT my oldest âsweatsâ it out quite a bit⊠more than others⊠but he wants straight Aâs (so his odds of MD school are better) and he also kind of oddly wants not only an A but he wants like 99% or 100% on the exams⊠he wants to master the topic/professor/class.
GT is great b/c he can have fun at football games (the marching band kids have a lot of fun so that would be a great passion for your daughter to pursue based on some of my older sonâs friend, etc.). Anywho, after the first two years it becomes a âjobâ so to speak and the college allure excitement etc. is gone.
So Iâm writing in a rambling fashion what you already know⊠almost no matter where you go to college youâll have to grind⊠and any top 50 school will be a grind whether it Harvard or GT or CWRU or Rice⊠thereâs a grind factor ⊠so you too get my point⊠what Iâve decided is after all the accept/rejects come back, take the top three, visit them through a different lens⊠and then see which one the kiddo will be passionate about and love and will persist through the grind.
I think given daughter stats⊠and being FREE⊠and marching band outlet⊠GT would be a near slam dunk decision provided she wasnât like, âMom, I absolutely dread this environment.â Just my two centsâŠ
EDIT : Also, thereâs is this âsecret handshakeâ kind of society⊠when I wear GT college quarter zip on travel⊠thereâs always, I mean always people coming up to me and Iâm like not me, my son goes there. So its a ânerdyâ school⊠but one that produced leaders too⊠so Iâm all for it.
I am also curious OOS acceptance in the past years, we are in ny , school size of 800 give or take, in the past few years, never top 10 kid went to GT (they might got accepted, but did not go, I do not know). but kids between 20-30 ranked, and seem girls get better chance than boys, last yr a boy went GT and offers a transfer to Cornell who were ranked around 25 and a girl ranked 30-40ish ⊠I see many says rank matters, does school size relative to rank also consider, a valedictorian of school size of 800 certainly is different from school sized 200. Noted our top 3 last year went Princeton, Columbia , Stanford⊠so does GT consider they might not get top kids from those high schools, so they not accepting those since the school record is that those top kids never ended up going??? I know my question is every where but this is confusing, my daughter is ranked 2nd on the transcript and GT is one of her top 3. I am not sure every thing considered, is her ranking gonna help or hurt her
GT will be more grind then Rice in my opinion⊠I would look at other schools.
GT is terrible for mental supportâŠ
I received a Conditional Transfer Pathway Offer for Summer of 2025. Given I meet all of the transfer requirements, does anyone know the weight that my essays on my transfer application hold on my chances for admission?
My transfer application has one essay that is identical to what was asked in my initial application (âwhy majorâ and âwhy at GTâ), and I feel as if my answer has not changed all that much. Would it be wise just to resubmit that essay in my transfer application with a minor tweak or two or to completely rewrite my essay at the risk of repeating myself?
Wow⊠I would have thought Rice would be more of a grind⊠I have no basis for that whatsoever just rankings and my perception only (based on what Iâm not certain as Iâve never been to Rice)
My son has applied to both GT and Rice and toured both and spoken with folks from both. I think it depends on what you consider a grind. From the feedback we have seen Rice is much smaller and there is a lot more support with a more intimate feel. The âHarry Potter styleâ house setup is a big part of their culture and something people tend to really like about it. That said the classes are very intense and you have profs that seem to like to make things overly difficult âbecause itâs Riceâ. GT is definitely a large public school with all the pros and cons that go with it. Lots more to do. Larger classes and more student organizations to get involved in. Easier to get lost in the fray. Spoke with one girl who was from a small private school in rural GA and she struggled quite a bit Freshman year because it was such an adjustment but was doing fine (current Junior) and found support from multiple places when she reached out. Highly competitive academically but not in a soul crushing way, just tough for folks that arenât already strong students with really good study habits. The girl I mentioned had always been the smart kid but had never really been challenged or put in a situation with so many other smart kids, that was a big part of the adjustment (thatâs going to happen at Rice as well).
Both are big city environments but pretty different feels to them. GT feels new and modern with constant activity. Most of the buildings are either pretty new or freshly renovated. You can feel a lot of the energy you would on any big public campus and there is a lot of cool and eclectic stuff immediately off campus. Rice is also Downtown but it feels very different. A lot of the buildings feel surprisingly old and not updated. Itâs got more of the quiet prestige feel as well similar to Duke, though no one is confusing Durham with Houston the actual campuses feel similar (Duke is nicer). The area it is in for Houston is kind of unusual because it is Downtown but right next to the Medical Center (largest in the world). Thatâs really cool if you are Pre-Med or BME but otherwise it may not be as interesting. The area around there is a very wealthy part of Houston, basically a lot of old money and feels almost Suburban in a way though you can get to any part of Houston quickly from there.
Rice is also much more Cosmopolitan than GT. GT is still fundamentally mostly Georgia students and a public school, Rice has 35% of students from Texas and has a LOT of international students.
Really depends on what you want.
I would say you can reuse. I bet a different set of people will read it. Plus, it is your essay. To me it is like a new edition of the same book.
That isnât considered to be Downtown Houston.
Itâs certainly close and I would consider it comparable to Georgia Tech being Downtown, though GT is a little more âDowntownâ. Itâs kind of splitting hairs. Neither is âNYU Downtownâ and neither is really Suburban. I mean Google Maps considers GT 1.6 miles from âDowntown Atlantaâ and Rice is 4 miles from âDowntown Houstonâ.
As someone who grew up in the Houston area and worked in the Houston area, if you referred to Rice University as being in Downtown Houston to someone from Houston, they are going to give you a strange look.
I thought I was pretty clear in my description that it is not like NYU is Downtown but it is similar to GT which is in Midtown not Downtown. Itâs still very close to Downtown and that is the point. âDowntownâ is really just the area immediately around the Convention Center from a technical perspective but âDowntownâ in terms of how you compare colleges would be is if it is well within the center of a major city. I mean would you consider UT in âDowntown Austinâ? Thatâs another comparable. Rice feels probably more âDowntownâ Houston than SMU feels âDowntownâ Dallas to me but neither are truly âDowntownâ. Itâs all splitting hairs and irrelevant to the larger point which is comparing GT to Rice.
Iâve also lived in Dallas and Austin and spent a lot of time in Houston and Atlanta and have visited all 4 of the campuses in question.
The thread is about Early Action applications and admissions for Georgia Tech. If posters wish tp talk about other universities, they are welcome to post on the appropriate threads or start their own threads on those topics.
Totally disagree. Average undergrad GPA at Georgia Tech is around a 3.6. My kids work hard, but they also are very involved on campus, work out at the CRC 4-5 times a week, and have very active social lives and time for it all with great grades. Both engineers. They are very diligent about going to class and doing their work in between classes to stay on top of everything. Good time management is the key. They are also super happy there.
No real thoughts on current Rice but multiple family members graduated from there and were able to do so while having a lot of fun so it must be possible.
I think you hit on the most important thing here. After having at least one kid at Georgia Tech for the past 5 1/2 years, it seems the kids who struggle there are typically kids who are very smart, but have never really been âchallengedâ, required to do significant amount of homework, required to study for several days for a test (night before is not a great idea - too much material), and donât have good time management skills. This will be an issue at any challenging or competitive college whether it be Rice or Georgia Tech or somewhere else.
If you have met all of the requirements, 30 completed hours with a GPA of 3.3 and a math/science GPA of 3.3 plus all required classes you have taken are transferable according to the transfer table, your admission is âsecureâ which is basically guaranteed although they donât say it. I donât think your essay is going to have an impact, but I would take about 30 minutes and switch it around a little if I were you.
I see we are back to the private vs public school anecdotal story thing again to state a personal opinion which is completely not true in my experience/opinion. Kind of funny at this point though.
It was a true story. Doesnât reflect on everyone. Itâs also noteworthy that it was as much about the small town and the school she was from didnât offer a lot of rigor academically. Thus she had both a cultural and academic adjustment and to her credit she has overcome them but it took some time.
You are also certainly entitled to your opinion on a change in culture not impacting success in college and/or that private schools are better than elite large public schools. In the end the individual matters more than anything else.