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<blockquote data-quote="BCJacket" data-source="post: 483653" data-attributes="member: 2332"><p>You know, I always see folks looking at this issue from the bottom up. That the GT admin needs to go to their bosses at the BOR and beg to grow the institute. </p><p></p><p>But, I think if significant growth ever happens, it will be the <u>BOR's bosses </u>in the Capitol demanding Tech accept more GA students and increase enrollment. I've been a little surprised that this hasn't become a political issue in the State Legislature. The increasing share of out-of-state and international (up to ~45% IIRC) seems like a losing issue for the BOR to defend. Every year around acceptance time I hear about Georgia kids with ridiculously good applications who don't get in. Speaking for myself, I'd never get into Tech now. Most of this board probably the same. The solution to this, is growing the institute in a reasonable and sustainable way.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying we start accepting 20,000 kids with 900 SAT and 2.5 GPA. But we've got GA kids with 4.0+ GPA, 1450 SAT, and 7 AP classes getting rejected. Guess where they end up? In the engineering program at UGA- which should't exist. Or out of state on an academic scholarship. A family friend got rejected from Tech (his 1st choice), but got an academic scholarship to UNC that made his tuition less than the in-state. That shouldn't happen, IMHO. Tech should be big enough to serve the <em>qualified </em>STEM students in our own state.</p><p></p><p>The big influential UGA boosters don't want this to happen because of football and can pressure the BOR to keep Tech small and niche. But even my UGA-grad friends want their kids to go to Tech <em><strong>if </strong></em>they can get in. My kids are pre-school age. But I'm already considering if I want to dial back my Tech support, so they don't get their hearts set on going there. "I'm going to make it so your (smart hardworking deserving) kid can get into Tech." Seems like a winning political policy for a state politician.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BCJacket, post: 483653, member: 2332"] You know, I always see folks looking at this issue from the bottom up. That the GT admin needs to go to their bosses at the BOR and beg to grow the institute. But, I think if significant growth ever happens, it will be the [U]BOR's bosses [/U]in the Capitol demanding Tech accept more GA students and increase enrollment. I've been a little surprised that this hasn't become a political issue in the State Legislature. The increasing share of out-of-state and international (up to ~45% IIRC) seems like a losing issue for the BOR to defend. Every year around acceptance time I hear about Georgia kids with ridiculously good applications who don't get in. Speaking for myself, I'd never get into Tech now. Most of this board probably the same. The solution to this, is growing the institute in a reasonable and sustainable way. I'm not saying we start accepting 20,000 kids with 900 SAT and 2.5 GPA. But we've got GA kids with 4.0+ GPA, 1450 SAT, and 7 AP classes getting rejected. Guess where they end up? In the engineering program at UGA- which should't exist. Or out of state on an academic scholarship. A family friend got rejected from Tech (his 1st choice), but got an academic scholarship to UNC that made his tuition less than the in-state. That shouldn't happen, IMHO. Tech should be big enough to serve the [I]qualified [/I]STEM students in our own state. The big influential UGA boosters don't want this to happen because of football and can pressure the BOR to keep Tech small and niche. But even my UGA-grad friends want their kids to go to Tech [I][B]if [/B][/I]they can get in. My kids are pre-school age. But I'm already considering if I want to dial back my Tech support, so they don't get their hearts set on going there. "I'm going to make it so your (smart hardworking deserving) kid can get into Tech." Seems like a winning political policy for a state politician. [/QUOTE]
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