I wouldn’t count on any FA for OOS students at this point. If it is not affordable just move on.
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I didn’t say what I was or wasn’t looking for, but I’d like the breakdown.
However if it was as simple as you claim, the FA would be out by now. I just want the full picture before committing anywhere, which when talking about a 200k investment more people should know before committing.
Do you mean breakdown of cost? It is listed on GaTech website. Nothing new will come out of FA…
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Out of state is almost exclusively full pay. Georgia Tech in adherence to their mission to make Georgia Tech accessible, uses the vast majority of their Financial aid money to support in state Pell Grant eligible students.
the financial aid letter/cost/split up is available on the GT account. $54,284/year. No aid/scholarship. Emails were sent to the student and parent.
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My dd25 is OOS (Texas) and received notification of a dean’s scholarship a couple weeks after admission. It grants in-state tuition. Physics major. I don’t think the letter said how many were offered.
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Congrats. Very few.
We are oos and got an unexpected $18,600 scholarship today on the official financial aid. It is listed under the “merit scholarship” section, so I’m hoping this is for 4 years unrelated to income, but emailed financial aid to clarify. This was certainly a pleasant surprise as without some sort of aid I’m not sure that we’d be able to justify it compared to other acceptances with scholarships!
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@IDmom1 can you report back on if its indeed merit? We are OOS too and got an email yesterday saying we did not qualify for FA (no surprise) but did apply for a department scholarship so we are wondering about merit. Thanks and congrats on that!
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Will do!
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Yes… this tends to generally be the case… if OOS will generally be full pay (generally).
Make for a tough decision when able to go to another school for 4 full years at the cost of 2 full years elsewhere.
I know I always preach money is not the only factor… but once get in the last couple schools it certainly is for us!
Money affects 90% family decision where to go to college if not higher, GaTech OOS not that crazy compared to UC schools and many others.
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You must have a very bright kid, congratulations.
I worked up an estimate of EA2 (OOS/Intl) deferred acceptance rate this year based on 2024 total first-year enrollment, 2025 admissions data so far, and a guess on OOS/Intl RD acceptance rate. I’d estimate 1300-1400 acceptances out of roughly 8350 deferred EA2 students. So 16-1 7% acceptance rate. My DD is really hoping she’s one of the 1400…
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Best wishes to your DD!
So too is our family for S25… as S23 is at GT and getting a 4.0GPA there… and has already leveled up and is now a year ahead so to speak.
What is shocking… S23 was EA2 accept… and S25 with more/better stats + having a sibling was deferred … I’m not saying this is right, but in my mind only, I have a very different view of GT a bit like a “scorned lover”… so I’m really (really) hoping GT gives S25 an acceptance for RD… else our whole family view of the school will be less enjoyable.. we won’t be able to celebrate the school b/c another is left behind.
Now, truth be told S25 has acceptance to schools out ranking GT… but if he gets into GT we’re 99.9% certain that’s an immediate accept … or next day so to speak.
On pins and needles here…
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good luck to your son as well. This process never makes sense to me.
EA2 acceptance rate this year was 8 percent for OOS/international. Not sure whether that is what you used, but I believe it was 10% last year so it goes down every year.
I mostly blame COMMON APP for basically increasing the “donations” being provided to every school.
At one time, in the paper era of the 1990s, it was painful so one applied to a handful of schools. Now there are kids that apply to twelve or more… that written, clearly they’re not going to twelve schools.
So the denominators are rapidly increasing… its not necessarily that there’s a 10% yearly increase in the population, etc. Taking this to the LIMIT… one should technically go into commonapp… and pay for a ride-o-rama… where they literally can apply to every school in the US… and then they can pick the best one they want to go to… see but this wouldn’t work for universities as it would create problems… okay rambling rant is almost over… presently the schools aren’t getting that much better… their rates are going down… and they’re collecting more donations from applicants. Boo. I liked it 35 years ago better.
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Common app limits applications to 20 schools per applicant. Of course students can apply in other ways (many schools have their own app), and some schools aren’t on the common app at all.
Here’s the growth in first year applicants over the last 5 years (as of March 2025 for 2025/26 school year):
App volume growth:
and average apps per applicant, which is far below 20 per applicant:
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