Georgia Tech (GATech) (2023-2024)

[steep quartz]

and thankfully i already have quite a few friends at GT so the social life wont be much of a problem for me lol

[hardy pollen]

maybe ig

is there too much competitiveness for like CS stuff at gtech

like i dont want my relationships to be toxic

the thing is at purdue ppl are hella toxic

idk why they think they try to be the best at everything and they soooooo private on like stupid stuff like just doing a research project or something

like bruh literally everyone does it u dont have to like be secret abt it

especially if its on ur linkedin bru

[peak stump]

idk cus i'm not cs but i wouldn't be surprised if there is

like ngl if i feel someone is toxic i just stop talking to them and talk to other people, your time is too precious to be wasted on those ppl

[jaunty granite]

I don’t think there is

Generally people share “I’m going to Jane street final”
Or “doing research with X lab”

But there’s also over 4000 CS majors

So

It heavily varies

Fratty CS people vs Mathy cs people cs finance cs people etc

[steep quartz]

they do take your major into consideration

but i wouldnt say they necessarily "admit by major"

at least for first years

https://admission.gatech.edu/first-year/major-selection

they dont say they do but i'm pretty sure they do

that doesnt mean you shouldnt put CS if you want to do CS

id say dont listen to them lol

if your app is tailored to CS and then you dont put CS, it might look a bit sus

and also, first years who want to change major to CS also have to take specific classes before applying to change major, which might slow down your graduation plans

also GT is difficult to get into for any major lol. CS might be harder, sure, but not so much it would make too much of a difference imo

??????

what did his why major essay look like wtf

admissions officers arent stupid 💀

people need to remember that AOs arent just an algorithm looking for stuff but people who actually know how to read and critically think

[steep quartz]

it should be noted that i am yet to be at tech so i may be mistaken about this 💀

[gleaming birch]

congratulations with you acceptence! Just wondering what did you put for your major and what is your intended major? I applied but just in case i got rejected, I will apply as a transfer student next year

[steep quartz]

CS

also intended CS lol

[gleaming birch]

wait what? erm😅 if you don't mind me asking what's your GPA when you apply?

[steep quartz]

4.0

[gleaming birch]

4.0 UW?

[steep quartz]

yes

no weight in college

doesnt exist

[gleaming birch]

oh woah that's insane never mind

did you go to a community college?

[steep quartz]

no

auburn

unironically i probably wouldve had a higher chance of getting in if i went to CC, georgia tech loves those

[gleaming birch]

oh i see! Really? I want to go to CC but then there are other better options. I'm thinking about going to KSU then transfer since I remember they have a partnership (but only if they will offer me the transfer pathway)

[steep quartz]

definitely take the pathway

unless you want to go to CC for financial reasons then oh well

[gleaming birch]

yes but only if they offer me one. I'm a Georgia resident and the state offers everyone scholarships so I don't think I am going to CC

[steep quartz]

app deadlines are by your time

but dont push it to the very end, ive seen people miss because of internet issues 💀

[hardy pollen]

if ur instate then do CS

and if ur app is ECs with a lot of cs things

they'll see

so in that case apply cs

and apply like today lol

and ur instate right

its easy admission

[sand raptor]

yo is it over if i have a 1490 ?

i feel like it may be ngl

[atomic elm]

it's not over

[sand raptor]

LETS GOOO

fyi my other stuff is really good imo

i dont have an uw gpa so i cant say but ive had one B in all of my transcript

[atomic elm]

dw too much

it's just one aspect

[sand raptor]

thats good i was j a bit worried

its the last school im applying to for ea

hope i somehow get in

[late stone]

i doubt ill get in

34 ACT but my grades are relatively terrible (no one should have survived my schedule, i somehow did)

not just the hard classes but the combination of all of them in 8 hours

[sand raptor]

rough but i get what u mean

[late stone]

my ECs are insane though (not the most- ik people who have national awards but istg i killed whatever sanity and mental health i had left in me to do them, my impacts are more localized though but i helped in foreign language programs and band and robots)

[sand raptor]

thats good

[atomic elm]

it's a wrap... submitted!

[sand raptor]

WW

im submitting mine on tues

[fossil nebula]

damn what classes?

[late stone]

last year i had physics c + calc bc + first year of ap german (we do two years of it) + lit + essentially college level music + aforementioned ecs

i dont want to sound like im bragging because im not, i struggled in english historically and then physics too, and calc teacher wouldnt round up my grade second sem after she said she would (it was build season)

[fossil nebula]

i feel u im in physics C right now and its HARD

[late stone]

if you took physics 1 before it should be fine cause you have the concepts you just need to apply calc

i didnt, so thats why it sucked

if you did it wont be too bad

[steep quartz]

mechanics or electromagnetism?

[fossil nebula]

i didnt lmao

[fossil nebula]

my teacher started with E&M but we just started mech like a week ago

mech is actually rly light but E&M is hard IMO

[steep quartz]

oh i didnt know they were together in ap lol

the class wasnt offered at my HS

typically in college its split into phys 1 and 2

[fossil nebula]

yeah but college does it like semester wise

[steep quartz]

thats true

didnt think of it like that

[fossil nebula]

in high school, theoretically, the first semester should be C Mech, second should be C E&M

[steep quartz]

e&m is really quite fine if you understand the calculus behind it

and then optics is literally just algebra

[fossil nebula]

nah physics C doesnt use calc for e&m iirc

actually wait i think it does

[steep quartz]

????

how??????

[fossil nebula]

but we only used algebra

[steep quartz]

what????????????????????

[fossil nebula]

we're gna go back to E&M

so

[steep quartz]

how did yall do gauss's law

or faraday's law

[fossil nebula]

we didnt

[steep quartz]

or lenz's law

or ampere's law

what

did you guys only do electrostatics or something?

[fossil nebula]

we did electrostatics, field, induction, etc. in quarter 1 but my teacher explicitly said she'd be teaching off the physics 2 syllabus for the first quarter

since she wants time for people to learn some calc

but now in mechanics we're fully using calc

and when we return to E&M we'll use calc

[steep quartz]

induction requires calculus too. if only basic calc 1, but it requires you to understand derivatives

unless you guys used delta

instead of differentiating

actually i needs integration too

to calculate magnetic flux

[fossil nebula]

we used delta

my teacher said we're gonna differentiate when we return to e&m

you get what i mean?

[steep quartz]

ahhh i see

[fossil nebula]

yeah my teacher basically didnt use calculus to teach e&m at first

but i still lowkey bombed first quarter

[steep quartz]

honestly i disagree with teaching it that way 💀 they should make calculus a prereq for e&m imo

[fossil nebula]

yeah ngl the math is kinda the easiest part but at the same time

it's also a bit easier to separate the concept imo? but the shit in like physics 1 is ridiculous

[steep quartz]

its easier to understand using calculus than algebraically imo

[fossil nebula]

yeah yeah fair

[fossil nebula]

whenever my teacher was giving delta formulas i rewrote them in terms of derivatives

and yeah im also taking calc 3 rn, so i just did the matrix cross product stuff for vectors instead of A B sin t whenever i could

qvsinB

q v X B

[steep quartz]

ok im gonna be honest in e&m you should probably just do qvsinB 😂

[fossil nebula]

lol

[steep quartz]

you use the cross product to find direction

[late stone]

we only have mech in our school

[fossil nebula]

yeah

[late stone]

im taking 2 alg based rn

[fossil nebula]

oh rip

[steep quartz]

but most of the time you should just use qvsinB for magnitude and use RHR to find direction

[fossil nebula]

yeah yea

its not like id actually be able to do matrix cross product a lot bc they usually only give direction/magnitude anyway

[steep quartz]

i just cant comprehend learning e&m algebraically thats so wild to me

almost everything we learned was based off calculus

[fossil nebula]

yeah 💀

[steep quartz]

besides optics 💀

[fossil nebula]

they shouild bring back physics B ngl

how would u take an integral on a vector?

oh wait its vector valued

[steep quartz]

yep

also

dot product

essentially int((Exdrx)+(Eydry))

[fossil nebula]

oh

i see

my teacher is acc on the ap test comittee for physics

[steep quartz]

if E and r happen to be same direction then dot product drops and it just becomes E*dr

[fossil nebula]

she's on some of the ap classroom videos LMAO

[steep quartz]

wait no voltage is a scalar

not a vector

[pliant iris]

I’m late to notice, but in the future try to keep threads related to schools!!!! Feel free to chat about other topics in #1049163030145007708 or #🛩-lounge-chat

[late stone]

applied to the dream 🙏

[jolly relic]

good luck

[strong vault]

applied but no way i get in

[late stone]

we all got a shot

[strong vault]

🙏

[late stone]

just realized and sent the transcript

if i forgot that and got rejected i would actually kms

but i submitted it i submitted

oh no

oh fuck

[thorn wagon]

you good

[late stone]

that a question?

[thorn wagon]

yes

[late stone]

if so, absolutely not im one more thing away from death

[thorn wagon]

rip

[thorn wagon]

what transcript

[late stone]

hs transcript

ig ill spam my counselor

if they cant get it its so fucking over imma kms

[thorn wagon]

isnt the document deadline like a week later

[late stone]

no

[strong vault]

i mean they'll have a grace period of like 1-2 days atleast

its not even ur fault

[late stone]

man i hope so

i got shafted by so much shit

first osu and psu and amherst requiring official scores

then tech and mich requiring transcripts (which ig was fine but still caused stress)

every app should be like uiuc

ok nvm it looks like its already submitted?

depends on what "initial materials submitted" in naviance means

[steep quartz]

You’re good I’m pretty sure

Just make sure to contact your counselor to be completely sure

[thorn wagon]

on the application portal it says that the document deadline is november 15, what exactly does that mean

[sand raptor]

i sent my transcripts a while ago so i hope they already got processed

[sand raptor]

like transcripts and such

recs?

idk what else

[thorn wagon]

ok so theres that much time for the transcripts and everything to be processed?

im just making sure

[sand raptor]

well some students send in late

like rn 💀

its a grace period

[thorn wagon]

well i've already submitted but my counselor hasn't sent it in yet

[sand raptor]

i see

[late stone]

how bike-able is campus

[mental sapphire]

its very good

[next canopy]

I plan on starting my supplemental at 4pm tmr after work

is it over for me?

[late stone]

yes

respectfully

this essay took a lot of time for me

[gray zenith]

is this correct or should the portal be showing number scores

[true compass]

my SAT shows scores

idk if W means like withhold or smth

[gray zenith]

its weird because my composite is showing

but not my individuals

ill probably just re report it in case

[next canopy]

this shall be my motivation, thank you

[late stone]

i wish you luck

[steep quartz]

I wrote my supp for UW Madison in 5 minutes and got in so who knows

[atomic elm]

where does it show ACT score?

I took the SAT

but it only shows my AP scores in the self reported scores section

it doens't show my SAT scores anywhere

[gray zenith]

it should show sat as well

it did for a friend of mine

i self-reported it again and it showed properly

so its prob best to just do that

[atomic elm]

I'll do that then

thanks

[winter axle]

so many 5s

academic weapon

[gray zenith]

straight 5s is insane

[winter axle]

as im trying to write gatech supplemental

[atomic elm]

thank you-

the 4 I got on APCSP is not reported AHAHAHAHA

[winter axle]

i got a 4 in APCSP sadly

thought i was going to get a 5 on that

[atomic elm]

I probably trolled very hard on the perform task

I hope the CSA makes up for it

[winter axle]

the writing portion

i didnt write as much as i should have

when explaining the app

[atomic elm]

yea same lol

[winter axle]

i wish my school had CSA

just have CSP

[late stone]

im not reporting an APs

that bad

?

[sand raptor]

and its done.

[atomic elm]

why though

[late stone]

no 5s and i thought they dont use it for consideration

i have mostly 4s

[fossil nebula]

i got 4 on csp as well

my only 4 ever

like i got a 5 on calc bc the same day

[late stone]

damn yall are goated fr

[jolly relic]

u still get credit for a 4 on csp at gt anyways

[next canopy]

Yo bro calm down w all the 5’s holy shit

[hardy pollen]

5 on physics 1 is acc cracked

and physics 2 damn

[late stone]

i got a 4 on mech and they dont accept it 😭

uiuc would accept a ton more of my credits

[steep quartz]

imo what you should do with APs is: if they give you a credit, report
if you get a 5, report
otherwise, don't need to bother

but again, if they give you a credit, report it lmao

[atomic elm]

tryna be an engineering major man

[next canopy]

Any current GATech students studying comp sci?

doing a deep dive on what professors teach this specific class and ive narrowed it down to 2. I want to name drop one of them in my essay and directly talk about this course and how I'd want to learn it from them I just dont know if they both teach it or maybe one retired and its being passed off to the other

Kinda a general question if I name drop them and they no longer teach the course would that look bad?

[hardy pollen]

yea but like

even engineering majors don't get 5s on physics 1 thats literally the hardest ap test to get a 5 on and the mcq is so hard

[atomic elm]

I got extremely lucky

that test was the hardest ap test I've ever taken

[fossil nebula]

i think its partially bc of how BS the "conceptual"ness of Physics 1 can be + ppl taking phys 1 as their first class

Does GaTech accept CC credits

for math

oh wait are there like almost no credit limits at gatech

[jolly relic]

I can help u find out if they still teach if u want

[jolly relic]

I did this without knowing on my essay lol but I don’t think it mattered that much

[winter axle]

@jolly relic would you recommend talking about a professors research or a class

[late stone]

💀

[winter axle]

that you can use the skills with the class to further build you

[late stone]

i already submitted

i talked about specific classes in the threads

so ig i should be fine

[winter axle]

@late stone this is my last college to write essays too

[jolly relic]

i mean do u want to do research? depends on that ig

i talked about a computer vision course and prof but now i changed my threads/interests and wont take it

sysarch on top 🥶

[late stone]

i think same

i said theory and intel but there are 27 possible combinations and it could change and i couldnt say for sure rn

[jolly relic]

just stick with whatever interests u on ur essay

u can switch threads as many times

just not before major registration periods

[late stone]

yeah i put the classes that the thread offered in theory and intel

[jolly relic]

i switched from modsim/info -> intel/modsim -> sysarch/modsim lol

[late stone]

i could theoretically do math and do some other threads

but id rather explore the minors tbh

computing and buisness >>>>

i could do like an AE minor lmfao

for no reason but its funny

[winter axle]

I would like to do research yeah

[jolly relic]

Then I would talk about it yea

[winter axle]

@jolly relic dms

[next canopy]

I found a site that showed their most recent semester teaching but ty

[steep quartz]

its mostly because the material is simple enough that to cut most people off of a 5 they set the threshold unbelievably high

a 4 is decently easy. i didnt study at all and got a 4 in that exam. 5 is near perfect lol

[jolly relic]

Lol I’ve seen some first years come with 70 credits

[steep quartz]

Theory-media 💪

[jolly relic]

2nd course of linear algebra

[steep quartz]

That’s my goat

[jolly relic]

🤮

[steep quartz]

Ironically since I’m transferrring I might not be able to transfer my lin alg credit 💀 I took honors instead of regular

[jolly relic]

did u check transfer equivalency

[steep quartz]

Yes

[jolly relic]

do u get 1554?

or 1564

[steep quartz]

No

[jolly relic]

damn

1553?

[steep quartz]

I need to send it in for evaluation

[late stone]

idk if my cc credits will transfer to gt

[jolly relic]

ohhh

[late stone]

calc 1 and 2 is fine i have a 4 in BC

i have calc 3 and eng 101 102 done though

and no foreign language credit unlike uiuc

[jolly relic]

https://oscar.gatech.edu/pls/bprod/wwsktrna.P_find_location

@steep quartz ur taking classes here next semester right?

[steep quartz]

Yes

[late stone]

it shows 1551 and 1552 but not calc 3

so i assume calc 3 wouldnt transfer

[steep quartz]

You won’t know until you actually transfer. Those show the courses taken by students who transferred from that institution at that term. So that means it’s likely nobody who transferred took calc 3

That term specifically

[late stone]

fair

i know for sure uiuc takes my credits, since same states

so it could change things a bit

but yeah if they do accept it then its null and void

[next canopy]

Anyone able to proofread my supp in likeeee 30 mins - 1hr?

[next canopy]

107 words

then i just transitioned it to talking about a specific OS course i wanted to learn from a prof I name dropped

[next canopy]

@hazy lintel you wanna proofread each other?

damn. u doing ea?

lmaooo

lmk when ur done ill prolly be working up til midnight

i just need some set of eyes on what im doing so i dont submit blindly

[steep quartz]

I would offer but I am so shit at telling whether other peoples essays are good or not

Most I can do is check for grammar lol

And at that point just get chatgpt to do it

[raw rose]

is there any reason to say no to this?

In the event I am not accepted for admission to the Georgia Institute of Technology, I consent to have my contact information ( name, email address, phone number, mailing address, etc.), academic interests (intended degree, intended major, etc.), and academic data (SAT/ACT results, GPA, etc.) shared with other colleges and universities within the University System of Georgia that may match my academic profile. I understand that this is a completely voluntary choice, and my response will not affect my application for admission to the Georgia Institute of Technology. *

[late stone]

nah not really its just your choice

i said yes cause its esentially a free application to UGA

[raw rose]

oh hype tysm

[late stone]

idk for sure though

i could be wrong

[raw rose]

nw ty

i thought it was like "you will never be able to apply to uga again"

i was so wrong though

hype

[jolly relic]

Not sure but I did use “Tech” abbreviation a few times

[hardy pollen]

just do GTech or georgia tech

[atomic elm]

update from a few days ago

my SAT scores showed up on the portal with my AP scores after I self reported on the portal again

even though I already self reported on the Common App (it previously did not show up)

[late stone]

can i self report APs on gt app

[atomic elm]

yes

[late stone]

should i (if they meet the requirements for credit)

[atomic elm]

yea

[late stone]

ok

[atomic elm]

ooo I'll do that too then

[late stone]

so technically they only accept a 5 for phys c mech but 4s can test out

should i put it

[atomic elm]

I got a 4 on Bio and didn't report it on Common App lol

[atomic elm]

probably not???

idk it depends on you

I omitted everything but 5s

[tough swift]

a 4 is still pretty good

general rule is to report 4s and above

if they give you something (even through a test) I’d still report it

[atomic elm]

yea if they give you credit

[late stone]

ok ill report the scores

nvm i dont think i can

[atomic elm]

you can?

[late stone]

where

[atomic elm]

you got your portal yet?

[late stone]

yeah

[late stone]

got it

[next canopy]

Im not able to get within even 50 words of 300 for this supp

is it over for me 😭

[stuck leaf]

no

i was 200 words short for my umich supp

[winter axle]

@stuck leaf rip

[steep quartz]

imo if you get credit, PUT IT

[gray zenith]

this fixed itself today so now i just have my act listed twice 💀

[atomic elm]

yea my SAT scores are showing now

[atomic elm]

noooooooooo

[tiny oxide]

🥺

[raw rose]

did any 11/1 people get their portals yet

[steep quartz]

usually takes up to a week or multiple to get portals

[raw rose]

oh wow i got it yesterday too, tysm! i'm dumb

[burnt acorn]

do we have to send transcripts for community college courses that dont appear on our hs transcript?

[steep quartz]

if you have taken classes that are not on your hs transcript then yes

im not too sure how you would go about that as a first year applicant though

[drowsy rose]

what are admissions like? is it a lottery like ivys, or if you have 36 act, 4.0UW, and a good CS spike in ur app they will let you in? also how hard are their oos scholarships to get?

[atomic elm]

they're holistic

[drowsy rose]

I applied EA, its one of my top choices behind MIT, stanford, and UT Austin turing scholars

do they deny kids like that a lot or nah?

[atomic elm]

wdym

[tiny oxide]

Am i doomed if I referred to them as GA-Tech on my essay 💀😭

[drowsy rose]

like are you pretty much set if you have those stats and a good CS spike & essay? or could they deny you cuz they don't think youd be a "good fit"

cuz i know ivys will do that a lot, they want more diversity, is that less common at a school like georgia tech

[pliant iris]

nobody here knows tbh

we’re unable to tell you if you’re guaranteed to get in or not

[drowsy rose]

fair enough yeah most people here are applying themselves

[steep quartz]

I got rejected first year around even though I had really high stats and imo a pretty good app overall (even chanceme thought I for sure would get in lol). Can't really say, but I'm pretty sure my essays were the reason I was rejected. you need a strong app across the board

oos scholarships are very difficult to get if youre middle class or higher

if youre low income you have a decent chance

[drowsy rose]

rip

[drowsy rose]

yeah i feel like my app is solid, you never know what will happen but i feel like i have a good shot of getting in

i think my essay is solid too, nothing life changing and no trauma or crazy symbolism, but it talks about my minecraft server journey, how i got into coding because of that, and a challenge i faced along the way / what i learned from it

essays aren't my strong point but its half decent (i hope)

[steep quartz]

the essays that got me in were just honest about what i liked and what i wanted to do

nothing crazy

[drowsy rose]

what schools did you end up getting into?

[steep quartz]

first year, purdue and UWM, but i ended up going to auburn because its instate. I'm transferring into GT spring semester

[drowsy rose]

ah nice, what were your stats?

[steep quartz]

i cant recall my UW as we would have to calculate that ourselves, but it was a 4.765 weighted. 1570 SAT

college stats is 4.0 UW

[drowsy rose]

what ECs did you do?

[steep quartz]

hold on let me just send you my chanceme lol

[late stone]

i hope i get in

that is all

[drowsy rose]

thanks, yeah ur stats are pretty good, main difference between you and me is ECs, i did a lot of CS related stuff such as an internship, CS club president, math club president (unrelated kinda), Minecraft server, and won a hackathon for the minecraft server. i did some other stuff such as tennis and quizbowl too but i think the cs stuff will help me the most

just goes to show you never know what will happen even if stats are near perfect, hoping i can get in and they like my essay lol

[pliant iris]

please don’t send chancemes here

[steep quartz]

i thought the chanceme rule was specifically not asking somebody to chance you?

but ok lol

its not like i was the one asking, i already got in 😅

[pliant iris]

The point of the chanceme rule is that chancemes lead to speculation about whether or not students will get into schools, which nobody here is qualified to give feedback on. Even though you already got into schools, it still opens up the discussion to conversations that aren’t allowed

no worries tho!!! you aren’t in trouble

[steep quartz]

ok yeah got it, its no prob. will remember in the future 🫡

[fervent frost]

this gotta be the worst word of all time

[atomic elm]

felt

[nimble solar]

holistic 😂 😂 🎊

[desert nova]

does gt admit by major

[fossil nebula]

no*

[desert nova]

wow

that’s disheartening!

[steep quartz]

well...

they dont "admit by major"

but they take it into consideration

its sort of the entire point of the supplemental

"When you apply to Georgia Tech as a first-year applicant, you do not apply to a specific major or college. However, on your Common Application, you can select a primary and secondary choice major. We ask you to do that because consideration of your major is an important part of our application review process, as we seek to ensure an academically diverse first-year class."

take that how you will

[hardy pollen]

yea

[desert nova]

hm okay thank you

[hardy pollen]

they still admit by "major"

so if u say

apply for like busienss

but wanna do cs

they will know

and they wont admit u

[desert nova]

so for example computer science is more likely to be more competitive then something like communications

[hardy pollen]

yeah

exactly what i just said

they're not stupid to let everyone in like that

and btw gtech admission anyways is tought at 13% OOS

[desert nova]

how will they know??

[hardy pollen]

ur classes, ECs essays etc

a lot of things

[hardy pollen]

and this

OOS admission is tough for all majors

its a tough school generally to get in

its not like UIUC where overall admission rate is 45%

[desert nova]

is there distinctions between colleges? ie: college of design and college of engineering?

[late stone]

CE is technically under college of computing right?

i probably shoula selected EE as my second choice cause both of my choices are under computing rn

[lone root]

No CE is in College of Engineering

[late stone]

alr

[elder grotto]

14.8 Sure, no problem

[atomic elm]

ugh why are the compsci kids trying to get in EE now

[steep quartz]

wait wow GT is at a 16% acceptance rate

[atomic elm]

my admissions this year is going to be screwed

[steep quartz]

i feel like it used to be at like

30%

maybe im delusional

[steep quartz]

everyone thinks that CS is too hard to get into smh my head

[somber plaza]

talking like this as a 28er is crazy

[hardy pollen]

its the same difficulty

like ngl

look at the acceptance rate chart

now that i think about it

engineering has a harder cut off

if u wanna do cs apply cs

[atomic elm]

what do you think is a harder major to graduate from

[hardy pollen]

*for GPA

[atomic elm]

EE or cs

[hardy pollen]

like wdym

in terms of the job ull get

or just general GPA

[atomic elm]

in terms of difficulty of classes

and GPA

[hardy pollen]

difficulty

100% EE

wayy more difficult

thats why people who wanna do software just do CS

EE and CS are completely different realms

[atomic elm]

I agree although I'm still in hs

I want to do hardware stuff and E&M physics lol

[atomic elm]

it's an observation

non 28ers wouldn't care

[late stone]

i still want to dabble in hardware

i think devices does that?

but idk my threads choices yet obv

obv if i were to invent something it would involve some device so i want to atleast know how it works

[steep quartz]

honestly it depends

because CS at GT have threads where they have different curriculums

some threads are "harder" than others

it also depends on the student

for example i really like math so theory is not that bad but others think theory sucks and would rather do like sysarch which i really hate

[fossil nebula]

just do CE ngl

i like how berk just has a EECS major and then u choose whether to specialize in ECE or CSE

[atomic elm]

EE > CE

[fossil nebula]

i feel like CE is the happy middle ground

[atomic elm]

I want to do rf

so CE is not for me

[fossil nebula]

CE covers though?

[steep quartz]

I'll say i was required to take an EE class and it wasnt too hard. I wouldnt know about the higher level EE classes though

[atomic elm]

rf is an EE field

[hardy pollen]

facts

but EE too hard

and CS the easy way to get 200k+ starting

[random parcel]

is gtech easier to get into for business

i want to study business anyway but

do they place well

ik they're prestigous for stem just wondering what about biz

[hardy pollen]

mo

no

15%

same as cs

[random parcel]

damn

easy 🥱

[random parcel]

wtf

[hardy pollen]

yea

[hardy pollen]

bro thats harder than most t20 schools its not that easy

[lone root]

They’re being sarcastic lol

[random parcel]

im joking 😭 😭

15% is hard asf

[lone root]

Also I’m pretty sure every T20 (in USN) has a lower acceptance rate than 15%

[random parcel]

i dont believe so

notre dame

[desert nova]

well yikes guys

19% acceptance rate for my major

i’ll see myself out 🫡🚶🚶

[random parcel]

thats like every major at gtech

💀

[jolly relic]

Sysarch on top 🥶

[steep quartz]

Theory 💪💪💪💪

Extra math classes 🤩🤩🤩

[steep quartz]

Engineering and CS majors at like 12-13%

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1135701294888267937/1171281482740940820/image.png?ex=655c1be2&is=6549a6e2&hm=2ea8812a70a67e5a3c6b9696579c7b6c3c5360f5f67a5008c0463f9d5f4ddae2&

[desert nova]

is it even worth applying to their college of design w a 1350 SAT and a 3.6 UW lmfao

[steep quartz]

You might as well try

[desert nova]

should i go test optional?

[steep quartz]

Probably….? If you are low income or have some other reason that you can specify then ig. I don’t actually know how they see test optionals

If you write a mean supplemental then I think you get in either way. I think what got me in were my essays

[desert nova]

hm is there anyway i could see their SAT stats for a certain college

[desert nova]

what were ur stats

[steep quartz]

4.0 UW and 1570 sat but it should also be noted I was rejected first year. The only big difference were my essays

[desert nova]

bro what the fuck 😭😭

honestly i think my school fucked me

oh well

[desert nova]

thanks 🫡🫡

[random parcel]

not that different when you remove in state for both

[steep quartz]

we dont get stats for OOS rates but im assuming its like 6% 💀

[late stone]

just double major in math (the one thing allowed in computing)

[steep quartz]

my transfer credits got fucked so im not taking more classes than i need lmao

i dont wanna graduate in 6 years

[late stone]

fair enough

[tranquil cave]

how do i know if my georgia tech portal is complete?

[lone root]

If everything has a check next to it

[jolly relic]

i thought u cant go test optional for gt cus of usg policy

(unless they changed it idk)

[desert nova]

oh fr?

[late stone]

Yes

[atomic elm]

W

[late stone]

34 act gonna come in clutch fr

[tiny oxide]

frfr

[tranquil cave]

i only have act/sat scores & transcript under the checklist items. is that right?

[lone root]

yes, thats right

[tranquil cave]

ok thank u. my friend got an email saying his app was "complete" but i havent gotten one yet. is it cuz i havent recieved my GT acc for financial aid and stuff?

[true compass]

Hey do you guys know whether a misselection of major can be rectified?

I had to apply for Mechanical Engineering to GAtech

And I wrote my essay for mech eng

Even referred to a prof there and the school of mech eng

But I was applying for electrical eng to other unis so I selected electrical eng on common app by mistake

Do you guys think I can get it rectified?

I emailed the undergraduate office already

[raw rose]

no need to stress, if you emailed i think they will rectify

in any case, you should get a response soon! ❤️ best of luck, i'm also a mech eng applicant

[true compass]

oh ok

ty

[true compass]

hoping the same ❤️ ty

[true compass]

@raw rose they said no 💀

im screwed

my essay literally says I wanna do mechanical engineering

wtf

[late stone]

💀💀💀

[raw rose]

noooo best of luck

😣🤍

[true compass]

I'm withdrawing my application

Cuz this is just useless

[glass stream]

why would you withdraw...

[trim mirage]

A CHANCE IS BETTER THAN NO CHANCE

WHEN WILL PPL LEARN

[steep quartz]

if you keep in the application you will have infinitely times more chance than if you withdrew

no harm leaving it in there

[peak stump]

I remember submitting the wrong recommendation letter to my GT application and I ended up sending the admissions office an email and was able to fix it, so although I'm not sure if you'll be able to change your major I think they'll prob be pretty flexible with things

Oh wait oof I read the later comments, that's unfortunate
But yeah def don't withdraw lol

[true compass]

Alr

Won't withdraw

[sand raptor]

yeah it doesn't

[peak stump]

Yeah ur fine

Also it looks like they updated the admissions portal and stuff, it looks nicer than before
But honestly imo Tech should update its entire website, it looks kind of shit and there are like 10000 empty links

[mental sapphire]

gtech literally has an army of advanced cs majors

idk why they don't use them at all

[atomic elm]

lmao

same for UIUC

[late stone]

ui ux takes more than coding skilss

[trim mirage]

You actually need artistic talent for uiux

I can’t wait to apply to gtech

Sending in my application Friday

[late stone]

not only that

theres psych or smth involved to

get your users hooked into the site

[trim mirage]

That’s a different category tbh

[late stone]

through colors or smth

[trim mirage]

Yeah psychological aspect

[late stone]

still falls under ui ux

not necessarily graphics in general

[mental sapphire]

why didnt u apply ea1????

[trim mirage]

Becuz it was DOOKIE

[icy loom]

ea1 gang get ready 😭

[gray zenith]

when is ea2?

[late stone]

january ish i think

[atomic elm]

still tbd...

[gray zenith]

its mostly for finaid i thnk

you need it to login to gt's finaid system

if you get in its probably going to be your login for everything else

[true compass]

when does ea2 come out

[lone root]

End of January

[mental sapphire]

IN STATE BENEFITS GOESSS CRAZZYYY

[smoky sorrel]

DECEMBER 8 OH GOD

[raw rose]

ahhh

[somber plaza]

U GOT THIS

RAHHH

[raw rose]

Your Application is Complete!
i submitted 11/1, why is this here today 😭

[icy loom]

it's just to confirm all your materials got submitted - they sent me that too for ea1 after a few weeks

[trim mirage]

This school is pretty good

[atomic elm]

what a news!

[jolly relic]

[young mango]

https://tenor.com/view/loona-oec-artms-kimlip-jinsoul-gif-14577708332007208838

Ngl why isn’t it this

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/727850377403170819/1175944243806740540/caption.gif?ex=656d126b&is=655a9d6b&hm=418d365b6be8e15680553a0d58dacfda872febc2335534c46fa1c70105554486&

[late stone]

why you got this on every public top cs school

this is slander

[atomic elm]

this is facts

[trim mirage]

Man imagine going to Georgia tech cs that can’t be nationally ranked or something

But the amount of unshowering ppl in that building is insane probs

[jolly relic]

one of my cs class stinks

[raw rose]

not yet sadly :// did you apply EA?

[true compass]

fafsa will open december due to major changes

[raw rose]

I got an email about financial aid but it didn’t say anything about it being required, just a reminder to start in December

OOS if that helps ^

[true compass]

i think you just wait

i got that email soon after i applied too

nothing you can really do abt it tbh

[worthy comet]

If there 🤭 are ten 🔟 colleges 🤓 I’m applying 🍎 to, 👆one of them is GT 🐝

If there 🤷‍♂️ is one 1️⃣ college 📚 I’m applying 😩 to, it’s GT 🐝

If there 😭 are no 🙅‍♂️ colleges 📖 I’m 👦 applying 😥 to, I’m dead 😵

Please let me in 🙏

[atomic elm]

this is a new level of downbadness

[worthy comet]

Oh for sure

Just let me live in my delusion 🥰🥰🥰

[late stone]

GT is that grey area between being a public school and private prestige (and simps)

[mental sapphire]

if there are 10 people applying to gtech, i am one of them
if there is 1 person applying to tech, that one person is me
if there is no one applying to tech, i am dead

[worthy comet]

UGH IK it’s such a good school I just wish the acceptance rate was higher 💔

On the plus side though GT has a low yield so I mean I could always be waitlisted and have a good chance because GT is my first choice school 😙

[late stone]

GT should have ED fr

[worthy comet]

YES

I think it’s a public thing right??? I don’t know any public university that does ED…

[late stone]

UVA does

william and mary does too

[steep quartz]

manifesting works fr 🙏

[rocky parrot]

xook

[young mango]

I’m starring this lmfao

[worthy comet]

STINGEM 🐝

*The MOMENT I walked on campus, my dad had to close my jaw. My elated engineer self could not believe what I saw.

“Deodorant prohibited!” The sign read. Were my eyes playing tricks? I had to find out for myself. I walked into the library. The library was as silent as a mouse. But it was also as stinky as a rat. Thousands of sweaty engineers, with headphones on their cranium, studied incredulously and meticulously. The stench emitted brought tears to my eyes, from both emotion and the destruction of my scent receptors.

Could this really be the place for me? A sweaty engineer? I thought. I still had doubts. I had one more test to see if Georgia Tech was right for me.

Bobby Dodd stadium. Home of the Yellow Jackets. I marched my aching feet inside and purchased a ticket: UGA versus Georgia Tech. I found my seat, and what I saw next made me almost vomit.

Georgia Tech… was… winning?! In… sportsball! I was revolted. Clearly this place was not right for me…*

[winter axle]

Beautiful

[late stone]

should i make this bet

If GT wins against UGA this year i will commit to GT if im accepted

[pliant iris]

two things with horrible odds

[late stone]

makes it even funnier

this is also risky af, if they somehow win and i somehow get accepted ill be giving up UIUC instate tuition and potentially CMU

(none of this will probably happen im delusional af)

[worthy comet]

If GT wins against UGA this year I will commit to GT if I’m accepted

[clever sandal]

When do GT decisions come out for OOS?

[atomic elm]

tbd

[worthy comet]

Late January is usually the time... I think it’s around the 17-20th???

They’ll announce it on @gtadmissions or something like that

[clever sandal]

Oh ok

[peak stump]

TO HELL, TO HELL, TO HELL WITH georgia
THE CESSPOOL OF THE SOUTH

[worthy comet]

TO HELL WITH GEORGIA

[pliant iris]

i can get behind this

[trim mirage]

This is cringe

11-0

But knowing gtech they are somehow gonna pull off a 90 yard pick 6

[sand raptor]

doubt it 💀

gtech stands no chance unfortunately

could be 100% wrong but they are facing the #1 college football team

[pliant iris]

uga is overrated

https://tenor.com/view/go-gators-foot-ball-gif-9647408

do what we couldn’t

[worthy comet]

I mean I don’t stand a chance of acceptance but we can all believe our delusions

[peak stump]

ok like
my prediction is u(sic)ga 38 - 17 GT
but let's see if Tech can pull a Miami again

[worthy comet]

That’s honestly a really good prediction

[sand raptor]

i dont even believe but ur right

i think its gonna be like 40-10 prob

[late stone]

UP WITH THE WHITE AND GOLD

[peak stump]

DOWN WITH THE RED AND BLACK

[worthy comet]

Oh wait u go to GT

How is that

[late stone]

TO HELL WITH GEORGIA‼️‼️

[peak stump]

pretty nice
honestly quite chill rn with thanksgiving break lol

[worthy comet]

Nice!

The academics are self-explanatory, but how is the student life? (Dorms, food, facilities, clubs)

And you don’t have to type a whole essay for my question 😭

[peak stump]

dorm - not the best but decently livable, there are two general areas:

• east = louder, closer to frats, next to stadium, better dining halls
• west = quieter, closer to crc, near some nice restaurants off campus
  food - also not the best but imo not as bad as people say
  facilities - generally nice, i like the crc, though i have to say i haven't used other facilities much
  clubs - very good variety though i plan to get more involved in the future

[worthy comet]

Omg that’s so awesome to hear!!!

My only worry abt this school was the student life but the buildings look really nice!

And if I went I honestly don’t know where I’d live bc I like frat life and socialization but I also would want to be near the gym and medical center because of reasons

[trim mirage]

Food is terrible I’ve been there before

[worthy comet]

Which hall were u at

[trim mirage]

The main one

Wait no I think the north ave

[late stone]

LETS GO JACKETS

[worthy comet]

YESSS

STINGEM

[late stone]

GEORGIA TECH RECOVERY

‼️ ‼️ ‼️ ‼️ ‼️

TOUCHDOWN LETS GOO

THE ONLY LEAD WE'LL HAVE BUT IDC

[trim mirage]

Excuse me what

[late stone]

INTERCEPTOIN

INTERCEPTION

2ND ONE IN THE QUARTER

[trim mirage]

What is going on lol

[late stone]

gatech recieved had to punt

[trim mirage]

No like

[late stone]

uga got it and it fumbled -> gatech touchdown

[trim mirage]

How

[late stone]

gatech's mustiness is disorienting georgia's players

thats how

nvm no interception so sad

georgia got the td

[worthy comet]

Gatech is actually not doing bad?!?!!

Defense is mid

[late stone]

14-13 uga

[worthy comet]

Pretty good

[late stone]

GTs gonna lose but its gonna be closer than i expected

[sand raptor]

yeah wait i was wrong

they doing pretty good against georgia

[late stone]

nvm it looks like uga will run with it

though they got 2 turnovers now ‼️

[late stone]

1 score game either georgia pulls a miami or GT intercepts

yeah GT took the L

womp womp

still wasnt the 50-10 blowout i was expecting

[peak stump]

Guys we beat the spread by two touchdowns against the #1 ranked team
I'm proud of them

• u(sic)ga is def losing the #1 spot to Mich tomorrow

[late stone]

i was super close

i call this a win in my book idk about you giys

[late stone]

is the gtech discord open for prospectives

[lone root]

yes

just google "georgia tech discord" its the first result

[boreal ledge]

i only just realized gatech is test required and i barely studied for the december sat LMAO, is it still worth applying with a 1410 (at the very best, i'll get a 1450 or something in december)

and my split is 720 reading 690 math so not good 💀

[atomic elm]

depends on your major

but your acceptance rate is 0% if you don't apply

[boreal ledge]

cs oos lol

hopefully i'll get my score up by a few points but we'll see

[atomic elm]

good luck!

[boreal ledge]

thank you!!

[late stone]

you can self report tests until jan i think

[atomic elm]

yep

[late stone]

the wind chill in ATL is 20 tomorrow??

i did NOT apply to GT just to get the same weather here

[worthy comet]

I have not gotten that

Maybe it depends on when u submitted?

Or if ur EA 1 or 2 idk

FAFSA opens up Dec 1 so I think ur gucci???

Wait

It says u have a “finaid file”

What’s that?

[somber tinsel]

I got that one a while ago

It was confusing but I did it👍

I logged in to the Oscar and there was a Georgia tech financial aid application

I did the GA tech application

If you click it it should open

Yes

Yeah I think so because it hasn’t opened yet

Yeeep

[worthy comet]

When is it all due?

[steep quartz]

All applicants get this

[fossil nebula]

would it be a good idea to apply for GaTech mathematics instead of CS (OOS)?

and then i can just transfer into CS pretty easily?

[late stone]

you have to be in math first year

as in you cant change your major for first year

i think ik you have good stats so you could just apply cs anyways

[steep quartz]

i advise anyone applying to just apply to first choice major instead of trying to game the system

but if you are actually interested/have shown interest in whichever other major you try for, then maybe it could be better? idk

[worthy comet]

How does it feel to live my dream

[late stone]

i had to make the same choice too

ended up doing cornell rd (impossible) instead of cornell ed because i wanted to go to GT/UIUC

idk i feel like im regretting that

or atleast im double minded

[worthy comet]

Nah

You’ll be fine

Also public schools have constantly proven better than private schools

More social life and student opportunities, cheaper tuition, better research funding…

[jolly relic]

You do get a free major switch when you confirm ur major after ur admission deposit… but I wouldn’t bank on that.

[steep quartz]

i would love GT to be my state school 😭

[late stone]

same 💀

cant complain over here though

[steep quartz]

im out here with UA and auburn as my state schools

[late stone]

UIUC

[steep quartz]

oh well at least im at GT now 🙂

[late stone]

in some cases UIUC is much better than GT namely cost

but idk

i like GT so much better for no apparent reason

[worthy comet]

GT’s campus is amazing

Idk abt UIUC

[somber tinsel]

UIUC’s campus is nice too

[worthy comet]

Nice

[late stone]

yeah its really good

just corn though

[somber tinsel]

Yeahhh

[jolly relic]

Whatcha taking next sem

[steep quartz]

they didnt give me 1331 so im locked out of almost all the higher cs classes 😭

even tho i already have 1332

and 2050

im prob gonna take 2nd lin alg course, prob and stats, applied combinatorics, 1331, and maybe a humanities like japanese or something

tho i will ask for a prereq override and see if i can take like 2340 and stuff instead, which will replace one of the math classes

[late stone]

is it cs1331

[steep quartz]

yes

[late stone]

idk how ill get c mech credit

[steep quartz]

for some reason auburn just doesnt have a cs 1331 equivalent which is a prereq to almost fkin everything

[late stone]

cause i only have a 4

[worthy comet]

Well

Redoing it is always an option

[jolly relic]

Wtf

Can’t u test out of it?

[jolly relic]

You’ll be offered a chance to test out later in like August

[late stone]

alr

better study if i get in

[steep quartz]

I’m not the strongest in Java specifics. I mostly code in either python or c++

Also idk how it would work because tests are first week of class so if I’m not already registered for classes I might be screwed?

[jolly relic]

Ah

[jolly relic]

Registration and dropping without a W ends Friday of the first week

If you pass 1331 ASE you’ll probably miss 1-2 lectures of whatever ur trying to get

[steep quartz]

ah i see

[lone root]

If ur doing info, 4400 only has 1301 as a pre req. Also many of the people courses don’t have any prereqs

[steep quartz]

im theory media lol

[jolly relic]

4400 sounds so dry tho

[steep quartz]

besides the math classes, most courses need 1331 as prereq

except like

algorithms

which i might get from transfer credit, they havent finished evaluating yet

[jolly relic]

Oh damn

[steep quartz]

even then technically algorithms requires 1332 which requires 1331

but luckily i have 1332 already

so lol

or was it 2050?

either way i have the prereq

[jolly relic]

If ur talking about 3510, it requires 1332, combo (3012), and discrete (2050)

[steep quartz]

wait it requires combo

[jolly relic]

I’m gonna hold off on that class lmao

[steep quartz]

:|

[jolly relic]

Yeah

[steep quartz]

well i have 1332 and 2050

[jolly relic]

Wait nvm I think I’m wrong

[lone root]

The prereq for 3510 is 2050 and (1332 or 3012)

[jolly relic]

Yeah I read it wrong

[steep quartz]

oh nice so im safe

this is assuming i dont get credit for it from transfer creds

[jolly relic]

Do you know when they finish evaluating

[steep quartz]

should be later this month, they said 2-4 weeks and its been 3

so maybe next week

like look at all of this in media locked behind 1331 😭

the only ones i have are 1332 and 2050

[jolly relic]

I’m getting fucked by waitlists rn

Idk if I’ll get my thread/major req classes

[late stone]

ok this is def concerning for me applying 😭

im assuming intel is the most popular right

theory and intel

[lone root]

By far yea

[jolly relic]

3600 moment

[lone root]

No theory is not popular at all

[late stone]

whats after then

modsim?

[lone root]

Info

[jolly relic]

Modsim is not that popular lmao

I know 2 modsim people and I’m one of them

[late stone]

lmao

ngl i might want to do intel devices and like a robotics minor or smth

that gonna be difficult though

[jolly relic]

https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~isbell/combos.pdf

[lone root]

It’s tough to do robotics minor as CS because it has ECE pre reqs

[lone root]

But yea info Intel is most popular by far

[late stone]

should devices help out a bit?

[jolly relic]

I’m kinda just coping and hoping they make cybersecurity the 3rd coc major

[steep quartz]

I think second most popular is prob people

Or maybe sysarch? Ik a decent amount of people who do sysarch

[jolly relic]

Sysarch 🥰

Def not the 2nd tho lmao

[steep quartz]

Oh I forgot about info

[lone root]

Yea there is some overlap

[steep quartz]

Yeah def info lol

[jolly relic]

There’s a lot of sysarch info tho

[late stone]

ig what would be most similar to statscs is intel and theory but idk if ill do that

[lone root]

It would be Intel + ModSim + math minor

[late stone]

actually yeah nvm

[peak stump]

??
I know multiple ppl who changed to another major after first sem

[steep quartz]

You only can’t do that as a transfer

[late stone]

said it in the portal so idk

[peak stump]

Oh rlly, that's interesting

[steep quartz]

Oh after first semester then you need a set amount of creds before you transfer (at least into CS)

And you need to have taken intro comp

I think

It’s been awhile since I looked tho so don’t quote me on this

[peak stump]

I swear to God
As an intl kid I have to say that some instate kids at Tech legit don't understand how much privilege they have
Going to Cornell over GT eng for free is some top level delulu right there

[steep quartz]

I am fr going into so much debt

[late stone]

it seems like a common decision people make ngl

gt vs cornell

[steep quartz]

I’m just hoping for the return investment to be bonkers

[lone root]

Meh not rlly unless ur in state for gt

[late stone]

im not but then it falls to uiuc

[lone root]

Yea UIUC is probably the most common top school ppl at gt turn down

[late stone]

equally as good as gt but im instate

[jolly relic]

zell clutching up

[late stone]

idk if i would ED to cornell if i were given the chance again

i ended up not

[steep quartz]

Ik a lot of people who don’t like the Cornell environment and location and would prefer GT

[late stone]

and im doing rd but idk

[steep quartz]

me included lol

[late stone]

if i dont get in GT id def regret not doing ED cornell

unless i get like cmu type which aint happening

id be very happy going to uiuc, but its def not a #1 dream

[steep quartz]

Man how is it 40 degrees out here in the south I’m in my shorts walking this is so painful

[peak stump]

lmaooo

acc so cold today wtf

it was like -1 this morning on campus

[late stone]

aint no way

C?

[steep quartz]

Celsius

[peak stump]

ye

[late stone]

ok thank god

[peak stump]

I actually EDed Corn and got rejected lol

I feel that for oos/intl I would put Corn and GT eng on about the same level (GT eng is better but Corn has slightly more prestige)

But like if you're an instate student the choice is so clear lmaooo

[late stone]

idk i prob would have regretted ED to corn but i also regret that i have like no shot rd

[peak stump]

40% acceptance + way lower tuition + Zell Miller scholarship thing is so insane

[late stone]

not instate, but am for a school thats roughly equal to GT

[late stone]

ig if i cook up some fire essays i got a shot

[peak stump]

hmm lemme guess
Cal? Mich? Illinois?

[steep quartz]

Illinois

He got UIUC instate

[peak stump]

damn that's insane

[late stone]

IL yeah

though i like GT more

[peak stump]

ahh i see
i would say unless you get some insane scholarship or have a very strong reason to not go to illinois realistically it's probably the best choice

[late stone]

fair enough

[peak stump]

that in-state diff too op 😂

[late stone]

only 10k /yr

[mental sapphire]

its lesser

[late stone]

IL got a really high instate tuition

[late stone]

difference between Uiuc and GT oos

[mental sapphire]

i mean essentially its free cause of hope

[late stone]

yeah but im like rich

“rich”