<p>Does Tech receive many URM applicants? Will being a URM give me a significant boost? What about being from the northeast (geographic diversity)?</p>
<p>Anyone have info?</p>
<p>I’m betting Tech receives many URM applications, but the percentage of URMs w/in the student body is pretty low (this can reflect on an admissions pattern, perhaps it admits a slightly higher % than attends) as it is about the same (or maybe a little lower) as most top 25 schools. I also would be wary about getting a large boost at an engineering school. However, I would apply anyway if you took and did well on plenty of APs (particularly math and science), and maybe fall just shy of the SAT or ACT mid-50. It can’t hurt, but again, I wouldn’t count on anything. Tech will only admit you if they feel you can handle the work, and Tech is pretty hard, so it’s possible that the standards for URMs (minus athletic recruits) are higher than many places (actually, apparently Tech does the best there as well as it has, or at least had, the smallest gap between athletes and the general student body among schools w/D-1 football).</p>
<p>Here’s some demographic data: <a href=“Blow the Whistle! (404 error: page not found) | Undergraduate Admission”>Blow the Whistle! (404 error: page not found) | Undergraduate Admission;
<p>Thanks, I hover around the 50th percentile for my SAT math and cr, 75th for writing.</p>
<p>Well then, you don’t need a boost now do you? 
Good luck, you should have a pretty solid shot provided that you took rigorous courses and did well.</p>
<p>For some reason I am not surprised that you are 75% for writing. Tech is dead even w/us on math and verbal (some years, they are a little better, and other years it’s us. I think they may win this year but we’ll have to wait and see), but our writing is far beyond it. It’s like the engineering oriented stereotype is true. Or something else is occurring, like Ga. schools not being particularly great at fostering good writing skills (I’m from here so it isn’t a stretch, it’s certainly possible). The latter proposal comes from the fact that they have over 3x the % of Ga. residence. I would in the future, like to solidly say that it’s only b/c of the engineering student theory (it could be a mix as of now though).</p>
<p>An interesting thought.</p>