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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 2897" data-source="post: 784355"><p>My son is going to likely fall directly into this. He's a white male, a double legacy (my wife and I both went there), we've given money every year for probably a couple decades now. He's only a Freshman so he's not old enough to have an SAT score (he had an 1100 on the PSAT as an 8th grader), but he's in the top 2% of his class. He just had a math test where he made a 98 - his teacher took off 2 points because he was unsure about his answer on one particular problem - he used another method to double check his answer and she wrote in all caps "YOU DON'T KNOW THIS YET! -2" LOLOLOL. He's a Tech man through and through. I highly doubt he gets in. Will he start out at Clemson or something and then transfer after a year? I highly doubt that too - why would you want to leave a place and friends you've started to build and start over? The transfer program is just a check the box offering that doesn't work for the vast majority of the people, but it enables them to cross their arms and say every legacy is guaranteed admission with just basic qualifications. You also want to be somewhere that wants you. My wife lived in Michigan in high school - Michigan wait listed her (she went back and got a double masters there later) and Tech let her in. She chose Tech even though Michigan was her dream school. But they wait listed her. When they called back to tell her she got in, she told them to go pound sand. They missed their chance.</p><p></p><p>You've been an advocate for those sorts of ideas for as long as I can remember and I love every piece of it. We need MORE STEM majors in this country, not less. If we doubled our school and the SAT average dropped from 1500 to 1400, WHO CARES. Georgia could be a massive STEM factory for the nation. We really lack drive and creativity. Its shocking because such changes would have a large positive financial impact to Tech as well. Go figure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 2897, post: 784355"] My son is going to likely fall directly into this. He's a white male, a double legacy (my wife and I both went there), we've given money every year for probably a couple decades now. He's only a Freshman so he's not old enough to have an SAT score (he had an 1100 on the PSAT as an 8th grader), but he's in the top 2% of his class. He just had a math test where he made a 98 - his teacher took off 2 points because he was unsure about his answer on one particular problem - he used another method to double check his answer and she wrote in all caps "YOU DON'T KNOW THIS YET! -2" LOLOLOL. He's a Tech man through and through. I highly doubt he gets in. Will he start out at Clemson or something and then transfer after a year? I highly doubt that too - why would you want to leave a place and friends you've started to build and start over? The transfer program is just a check the box offering that doesn't work for the vast majority of the people, but it enables them to cross their arms and say every legacy is guaranteed admission with just basic qualifications. You also want to be somewhere that wants you. My wife lived in Michigan in high school - Michigan wait listed her (she went back and got a double masters there later) and Tech let her in. She chose Tech even though Michigan was her dream school. But they wait listed her. When they called back to tell her she got in, she told them to go pound sand. They missed their chance. You've been an advocate for those sorts of ideas for as long as I can remember and I love every piece of it. We need MORE STEM majors in this country, not less. If we doubled our school and the SAT average dropped from 1500 to 1400, WHO CARES. Georgia could be a massive STEM factory for the nation. We really lack drive and creativity. Its shocking because such changes would have a large positive financial impact to Tech as well. Go figure. [/QUOTE]
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