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Campus will be abuzz in August as a freshman class of nearly 2,700 students arrives at Georgia Tech.
Last year, a record 2,800 students enrolled in Tech, sending campus housing scrambling to accommodate them. Housing officials were hunting for extra beds, wardrobes, chairs and desks for the students just weeks before their arrival. About 480 freshmen were living three to a room.
In March, Georgia Tech acquired four residence halls at the corner of North Avenue and Centennial Olympic Park Drive. Originally built to house Olympic athletes during the 1996 Summer Games, the residence halls became the property of Georgia State University in the fall of 1996. The dormitories, which can house about 2,000 students in three- to six-bed apartments, soon will be home to Georgia Tech upperclassmen.
Get to know this year's freshmen. Here are some facts on the first-year students:
Applications were submitted by 9,673 prospective students.
Acceptance letters were sent to 6,121 applicants.
The average high school grade point average of incoming freshmen is 3.74. The mean SAT score is 1343. Fifty-eight first-year students are President's Scholarship recipients and 129 freshmen are participating in the Honors Program.
Georgia Tech Promise scholarships were awarded to 43 incoming freshmen with financial needs.
The top five majors for the freshman class are biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, management, aerospace engineering and computer science.
Females make up 32 percent of the fall 2007 freshman class.
About 40 percent of the first-year students are non-Georgia residents. The freshmen hail from every U.S. state except Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota, with the top feeder states being Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Texas. The students represent 56 countries.
This year, 573 freshmen are legacy students, with a sister, brother, mother, father or grandparent who attended or graduated from Tech.
There are eight sets of twins in the freshman class.
The most common surnames of incoming freshmen are Kim, Lee, Smith, Patel and Johnson.
The most popular female names are Sarah, Katherine, Amanda, Jessica, Lauren and Megan.
The most common male monikers are Matthew, Andrew, Christopher, Michael and David.
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