<p>Georgia Tech is a State school and will admit certain number of students within state automatically based on certain criteria (GPA, scores, rank etc). However, those who apply will already know whether they qualify before hand. </p>
<p>The OOS and internationals that apply are those that play MIT lottery but know they can make it to GTech.</p>
<p>So as MIT says, the pool is self selective before they apply because they have to be interested in engineering and shooting high.</p>