Presidential Scholarship

GPBurdell32
Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:43:34 +0000

Your goal should be ‘win enough scholarships to be able to afford GT’. Thinking this is the only means is shortsighted and unrealistic. There is other aid, need and merit, from GT and other places.

[Georgia Institute of Technology :: President’s Scholarship Program :: Statistics](http://www.psp.gatech.edu/pages/stats.php)

They could take almost twice as many people with 2300-2400 if they wanted, but they didn’t. You should take a great deal of hope from that. They interviewed almost 60 people below 2100 last year. SAT obviously doesn’t mean that much to them.

Sounds like if you don’t give it your all (strong app, great recs, prepped/practiced for interview), it’s unlikely, but how happy would you be if it all came together and you won one?

Why not go for it? What’s the worst that could happen?