@college450. These numbers reflect out of state and international applications going up a lot at GT.
One reason they are up is that now students across the USA and internationally are more aware of GT due to its fantastic rank, and well known programs in business and engineering, and more and more students want to leave their home state, ones that used to go to the flagship school now choose GT as a better option educationally. GT’s out of state price is in the ball park with other flagships like UW Seattle and UIUC too and even less than say U of Michigan, so its getting more and more popular. Hope it stays affordable! GT does not control how many students apply but when more do, they take less. Its not Georgia Tech’s fault exactly, but its more a function of the fact that high schools curriculums are more STEM oriented and computer science, a very large department at GT, is a very popular major with 18 - 20 year olds due to the projections for jobs.