How to Write the Georgia Tech Admissions Essay

 Georgia Tech Excerpt

by Sarah O'Neill, Coatesville, Supreme Editing

“Georgia Tech is known for its excellent reputation, challenging academics, innovative programs, first-class facilities, stellar faculty, and an exciting campus environment. Georgia Tech combines the assets [above] with a supportive, collaborative community, where you’ll find people who are unbound by stereotypes or limitations. We embrace one another's talent and intelligence, and put it all to work to define what’s next.” 


According to Georgia Tech Admissions (via their website):

Common App Personal Essay and Georgia Tech Specific Questions.

Essays are evaluated for both content and writing/grammatical skills. The traits of a strong essay demonstrate authenticity and self-awareness, and thoughtfulness. They display attention to topic, style, and grammar. You should focus on showing why Georgia Tech, specifically, is a fit for you and how your goals align with Georgia Tech’s mission statement: The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university established by the state of Georgia in Atlanta in 1885 and committed to developing leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. Don’t write what you think the admissions team wants to read. Write what you want to say!


In history, the types of students admitted consisted of applicants who wrote about overcoming specific challenges and fulfilling ambitions through vivid storytelling.   The stories detail solving problems and detailing how they realized something important through the process. Applicants focused on the daunting adversity with positivity and a growth mindset, showing determination and resilience. Using vivid narrative techniques like imagery (SHOW, DON’T TELL) and figurative language allow the reader to enter your story and see your perspective. 



Supplemental Essay Example:

Prompt: Why do you want to study your chosen major at Georgia Tech, and what opportunities at Georgia Tech will prepare you in that field after graduation? 

Math is a language – a universal one, assuredly. Even though we do not necessarily speak this language, I believe it conveys messages using symbols and numbers, and much like other languages, I look forward to conversations with it. Honestly, I love math and have since learning the fundamentals in elementary school. Each year that passes, math becomes more pleasantly complicated. I want to study math at Georgia Tech because I believe that through analyzing numbers, we can engage in meaningful work. For instance, I completed two independent research projects that meant something to me. I studied the factors that determine when a child should have special education, and the other was analyzing and how someone’s native language might affect the person’s academics. Of course, like any math research, I gathered data and created a prediction model. I find it tantalizing that math can be applied to real life.

Considering furthering my higher education, only at Georgia Tech is the research option for Bachelor of Science in Mathematics excellent for me. I would have access to research opportunities and organizations that cooperate with GIT in the field of my own interest, possibly providing me with ideas and opportunities for my future career path. During summers, an eight-week research program sponsored by the National Science Foundation has a project on community detection techniques for data science, which perfectly aligns with what I have recently been trying to accomplish. With the skills accumulated at Georgia Tech, I would like to grow as an independent researcher in the mathematics field during my four years in college, preparing me to be a serious professional and, someday, an accomplished researcher.

Today I am one step closer to becoming an expert in the language of math, and Georgia Tech absolutely speaks my language.


by Sarah O'Neill, Coatesville, Supreme Editing

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