Not worth it, unless there is something you are looking for in that program in particularly. I personally view all GaTech students as Honor ones :). All students there 99% are tippy top students from GA or from around the country.
Ignore NPC for GaTech if you are OOS.
We did file FAFSA one year when I had 3 in college (old FAFSA) and supposed not to pay more than 25k per kid. Filling FAFSA did nothing.
Unless you are eligible for Pell you will get nothing as OOS (but tippy top scholarships that are not related to FA).
I would not visit GaTech if you canât afford to pay full ride OOS. Focus on other schools. Explain to your kid that GaTech is a public school and all FA goes to GA students. There is no FA for OOS students, only Pell (government FA.)
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For people who expect FA from GaTech. Public colleges reserve all FA for instate students. GaTech does not give FA to OOS students even if your student is low income (Pell grant is Federal money and only support you can get.) There are no low income OOS students at Gatech. OOS students are milking cows. They are by design help GaTech with money, not the other way around.
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@IDmom1, I feel for ya. As I too am in a similar situation here in CA but with other schools in play, I would agree to skip visiting any college if $$$ may ultimately deter one from attending. I made that very mistake with my DD 2 years ago. But luckily, it all worked out at the end, FA-wise.
Agree. FWIW⊠what does âmilking cowsâ mean? Never heard that expression. Ha.
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I know nothing about Techâs NPC but I just did it. Any NPC that has such an undifferentiated income range (example $99K+ like Techâs) and/or doesnât ask for stats yet is somehow giving a merit aid estimateâŠis sadly not to be trusted.
Agree with the others that you wonât get need based aid from Tech as an OOS student, and merit is for the top 2% or so of admits.
Google âmilking the cow idiom meaningâ 
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Thanks⊠was surely able to use context clues.
It is only if you checked the box on the Scholarship interest page for financial aid scholarships. It is very easy to check the wrong the one. Once corrected, it no longer asked for FAFSA and CSS.
Take the full ride offers and donât even look back. She will end up where she needs to be. The universe knows what itâs doing. 
Indeed a tough decision. What does your calculator say for GT vs Purdue (for which he got the merit scholarship)? If the delta is indeed huge, then it would make sense to explain to your son the situation and go with Purdue. Our kids are now adults, they should understand
FWIW, in terms of general national engineering ranking GT is 4th and Purdue is 6th, so pretty much similar.
Also, for full disclosure, I went to Grad School at GT, so I am objective here
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In state students either have to file FASFA every year or the Georgia Futures application once (much easier application) to get the state sponsored Zell or Hope tuition scholarship. Only reason to file FASFA is if you qualify for other aid.
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Georgia students also very rarely get aid direct from Ga Tech. They get the lottery funded scholarships from the state of Georgia for high school grades and test scores. Not funded by Ga Tech
From what I understand most GT aid goes to the most needy - those who also qualify for Pell grants. Middle class families donât get aid typically unless one of the special scholarships mentioned above.
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Correct! Many moons ago, I had Pell (that did not cover everything) and bunch of small scholarships as needy student at GaTech with good stats (I moved to GA after HS and was GA resident. I was a transfer student. ) On the other hand, my sis who graduated school in GA had Hope (there was no Zell at that time.)
So pretty much 99% of GaTech students who are residents of GA ( and who graduated HS in GA) get tuition covered by Hope or Zell (through state lottery for student with high GPA.) Then very needy GA students can get housing covered by FA. (I am not sure how Zell or Hope work with Pell.)
Majority of local GA students either stay with parents in metro Atlanta (that was my case) or pay for room and board only. That is why GaTech (and UGA) is such a good deal for GA students. GA residents get 2 top ranked schools for around $15k ( for room and board or free if from metro Atlanta and attends GT) a year regardless of income.
GaTech is still good deal for many OOS students who pay in full, if they can afford it. However, GaTech OOS is cheaper than many other OOS public (or top privates.)
GaTech does not need to provide many scholarships to OOS, since it has already insane competition among OOS students willing to pay.
I think we should pin somewhere for GT forum a warning :âDo not apply OOS if you canât afford it (unless you are MIT or Ivy caliber who can compete for very few scholarships. )â
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Yes! There is a Georgia Tech Promise full ride scholarship for instate students with income less than 55k. Used to be 35k but it has gone up. My understanding is that most of GT financial aid money goes to this.
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Does GT send postal mail on acceptance ?
Somehow I did not know about this. Thanks. Good information.
This is inaccurate as is who is accepted at GT, itâs not that simple. I have a friend whoâs son was accepted OOS to GT last year and offered In State Tuition and they were up for more scholarship money but went elsewhere. There is also Stamps and Gold and a few others. That adds up to about 80-100 getting at least In State tuition. GT has 19/20k Undergrads so about 5k per class and about 30% are OOS or about 1500. So a little under 100 of 1500 OOS students get significant scholarship money. Under 10% but not completely off the table.
GT has gotten crazy competitive for sure though. My son was denied with some hefty stats, very strong rigor, and great and relevant ECâs. We knew that could happen and heâs got lots of other great options. I donât buy that every student at GT is the tippy top though. I know some kids who were accepted that are strong students but not that exceptional. I could say the same about virtually every school with acceptances under 15% though we have looked at, some accepted and some not. Admissions have just gotten crazy with such a big increase in recent years in number of applications.
If you look at GT the number of apps have definitely hockey sticked and they arenât alone, a lot of that is Common App and in the case of GT they only have 1 essay really so itâs a very easy application. I think you are going to see more schools go to the MIT model where you canât use Common App and write different types of essays, itâs a good way to see who is really interested in the school and who is just âtaking a shotâ along with 15 other schools.
My son was denied btw with strong stats and rigor and some really strong and relevant ECâs. Thatâs the game in the current world. Heâs got some other great options so no big deal. GT is a great school and of the places we visited had some of the nicest people and seemed to get the most out of the resources they have out of any school we visited. Congrats to those accepted!
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Stamps Scholars are also in state. We know several in state Stamps recipients. Not sure what the in state/OOS breakdown is. The 1 percent number is off the Ga Tech website I believe. It is top 1 percent of accepted - not the 1500 enrolled number you mention. Also there are not 5k undergrads per class. I think freshman class is 3750, up from several years ago. GT takes a lot of transfer students. I have heard â of graduates are transfer students. That makes up the difference.So roughly 1100 OOS enrolled freshman.
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You nailed it. Some scholarships are for instate and OOS students (including Stamps. ) Also many trasferred students are OOS legacy. I bet that 99.9% of OOS transfers are full pay.
I would say that GT has one of the lowest chance for OOS students to get any merit. There are no 10k, 15k, 20k OOS candy merit like at some other public schools.
We do not know exact number of OOS students. However if 3880 enrolled with approximately 70/30 ratio required by GA law, you get about 1,160 not GA residents. Given that some are international, we have at most 1000 spots for 50 states. Some states are horribly competitive (CA, VA, MD, MA etc.), and some are less competitive like Alaska. But I can assure you that all OOS students are absolutely tippy top students.