Georgis Tech Football Dominance

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I don't think that is the primary reason. I think that GT along with just about everyone else plays games with the academic profile of their admitted freshmen. The rejected students who transfer in have typically slightly worse standardized test scores, AP classes, etc... so they are not included in the freshmen class if they transfer in. Your typical freshmen, from metro Atlanta at least, has a 1500 SAT score and 10 - 12 AP classes. Having one or both parents having attended GT means nothing anymore regarding admissions and the GT admission office will tell you as much.

That's not the metrics I'm talking about. GT gets allocated money from BOR based on headcount each semester. Having someone come in that gets most, if not all, courses transfer, keeps that person on the same graduation track as the student they are replacing, which stabilizes the numbers for the allocation.

 

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I agree that legacy applicants should not be automatically admitted, but the two I mentioned in my earlier post both had exemplary (HIGHEST) academic credentials and were still rejected. That just doesn't make sense to me.

I agree, this happened to my own son who's now at UGA.