Gpa

[ASimPerson]

You need three years of a language now at Tech?

Unless it's new for 2009, according to the 2008 application only 2 are required.

Link: http://www.admiss.gatech.edu/apply/download/

While we're posting data, I was out-of-state and got in with a 3.75 and a 1340 SAT in 2003. (For my freshman class, that SAT score was middle-of-the-pack.)

Remember that many high schools inflate their GPAs - GT makes you re-calculate it manually when you apply by omitting the fluff and not awarding extra points for AP classes and such (i.e., none of that 4.2/4.0 silliness).

 

[GTGSU]

So what classes do they make you calculate to see what your GPA is?

 

[ncjacket]

All most schools do is take away the extra quality points that AP and advanced classes get in high school. So if you're C gave you an A in terms of your HS gpa, colleges correct back to a C. No big deal and it's not anything special about Tech...all schools do it.

 

[JelloYacketDeleted062020]

Does anyone have any idea what your high school GPA or SAT score has to be to be elligible to play football at Georgia Tech?

I paid attention to this a couple of years ago, especially around the Class of 2004. In that class, which has 16 guys that have started a game, I remember the lowest grades belonging to Pat Clark, and he had a 2.8 and about a 950 SAT. There were only two guys that had below a 3.0 and a few that had below a 1000 SAT. Notice that we've only lost one of those guys to grades (John Morrison).

 

[Allen Koholic]

Tech does not award Calculus 2 credit for a passing Calc 2 AP exam. And they require higher scores on AP tests for most credits. Found those two little nuggets of joy out when I enrolled.

 

[ASimPerson]

Tech does not award Calculus 2 credit for a passing Calc 2 AP exam. And they require higher scores on AP tests for most credits. Found those two little nuggets of joy out when I enrolled.

There is no such thing as a "Calc II" AP exam. Perhaps you meant the Calc BC exam? Nonetheless, seeing as how only about the first month of and a half of Tech's Calc II covers anything you'd learn in HS anyway I agree with them on this one.

(Also, I looked it up and therefore knew to take CS AB instead of CS A, when the latter didn't count.)

 

[pocket_watch]

There is no such thing as a "Calc II" AP exam. Perhaps you meant the Calc BC exam? Nonetheless, seeing as how only about the first month of and a half of Tech's Calc II covers anything you'd learn in HS anyway I agree with them on this one.

(Also, I looked it up and therefore knew to take CS AB instead of CS A, when the latter didn't count.)

Boy, I hope all this is covered on recruiting visits. :pat:

 

[WreckTheRest]

WOW...My son is a Sr. in a Private HS. (a lot harder curriculum than Public schools) and has a Gpa of 3.3 (Was drug down by being at The Walker School his Frosh. year) and he has a 1130 SAT...
He was thinking it would be hard to get into GT , But he wants to go there badly.
He plays Basketball and has a few Small schools that have offered. His HS counselor told him to forget about GT for now with the 3.3 GPA. His ultimate goal is GT though. If he could get in, I think he would forego Bball and go to GT if he could get in..

I'm not really a fan of this program, but I think GT started letting freshman enter into a special program if their grades/numbers weren't all that high. I think the deal is he'd have to take summer school before the fall semester and make specified grades in his classes.

I'm not too much of a fan of it because I got in the old fashioned way. I've also seen a former pledge of my fraternity get steam-rolled by GT and nearly kicked out who entered into GT this way. Just an FYI, it might be something to look into.

 

[flushed 01]

more importantly, you need 4 years math and sciences and 3 years of a language. This is what eliminates most high school sa's.

lowest SATs we have on the team are high 800s, but that was compensated by better GPAs.

We do have some with GPAs in the 2.7ish range....

there is no hard and fast rule. An SA with a 2.5 gpa but took harder classes will get a pass. An SA with a low SAT with a good gpa will get a pass. Each situation is different.

Wher is it in writing that you need 4 years of math and sciences and 3 years of language, i have a ugag friend who says this is not so.