{"631288":{"#nid":"631288","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Early Action Applicants Get Admission Decisions from Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMore than 22,000 students will log on to Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s undergraduate admission portal Saturday morning to find out if they\u0026rsquo;ve been invited to join the next class of Yellow Jackets.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEarly Action admission notifications will be released at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 18. A total of 4,569 students have been admitted this round, out of 22,199 applications, for an overall admit rate of 21%.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWithin Georgia, those admitted represent 92 counties and 325 high schools. The Early Action admit pool is also made up of 42% women.\u0026nbsp; As is always the case,\u0026nbsp; Georgia Tech automatically accepts every valedictorian and salutatorian who applies from any Georgia high school.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESome of those admitted in Early Action received admission offers through one of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/admission.gatech.edu\/transfer\/transfer-pathway-programs\u0022\u003Etransfer pathway programs\u003C\/a\u003E, the newest of which is the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2020\/01\/14\/transfer-program-offers-new-path-georgia-tech-pell-eligible-students\u0022\u003ETalent Initiative Transfer Pathway for Pell-eligible students\u003C\/a\u003E. Others were offered admission beginning \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/admission.gatech.edu\/summer\u0022\u003Ethis summer\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;around 20% of first-year Tech students begin their college careers during the summer term.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe deadline for Regular Decision admission was Monday, Jan. 6. Georgia Tech has received nearly 41,000 applications for admission next year, an increase of 11% over last year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWithin the overall applicant pool is an increase in several target areas \u0026mdash; a 14% increase in female applicants, 22% in first-generation students, and 14% in underrepresented minority students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Diversity in all forms is an Institute priority. We\u0026rsquo;re pleased to see our recruitment efforts playing out and that these students are interested in attending Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; said Rick Clark, director of Undergraduate Admission.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EApplications are up in all six of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s colleges, but this year brought particularly large increases in liberal arts (29%), design (23%), and sciences (22%).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our goal is to ensure Tech is strong in all academic areas, so we have been consistently investing our time and resources in order to recruit and enroll students to all our programs,\u0026rdquo; Clark said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERegular Decision applicants, and those who were deferred during Early Action, will receive their admission decisions Saturday, March 14.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA total of 4,569 students have been admitted this round, out of 22,199 applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A total of 4,569 students have been admitted this round, out of 22,199 applications."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2020-01-17 20:05:19","changed_gmt":"2020-01-21 15:13:32","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"631315":{"id":"631315","type":"image","title":"Student at Convocation 2019","body":null,"created":"1579297175","gmt_created":"2020-01-17 21:39:35","changed":"1579297175","gmt_changed":"2020-01-17 21:39:35","alt":"A student dons his RAT cap at New Student Convocation in Fall 2019","file":{"fid":"240254","name":"48599973567_9a21be0a67_6k.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/48599973567_9a21be0a67_6k.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/48599973567_9a21be0a67_6k.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1123084,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/48599973567_9a21be0a67_6k.jpg?itok=VzQKK5xe"}}},"media_ids":["631315"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"5453","name":"admission"},{"id":"1556","name":"undergraduate"},{"id":"53041","name":"early action"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Bailey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}