GIT

Georgia Institute of Technology

The Questions

The personal statement questions are updated each year. They include a short and a long essay. The prompts for the current year are listed below:

Part 1 - Short Essay (1,000 character limit, including punctuation and spaces)

Why are you interested in attending Georgia Tech, and what do you hope to contribute to our community?

Part 2 - Long Essay (5,000 character limit, including punctuation and spaces)

Choose ONE of the following prompts:

• 1. Recall an occasion when you took a risk that you now know was the right thing to do.

  2. Tell us about the neighborhood you grew up in and how it helped shape you into the kind of person you are today.

  3. If you could invent something, what would it be and why?

Additional Information

If there is any additional information you would like our admission staff to know regarding special life or academic circumstances, additional qualifications, etc., please do so in the space below. You will have an opportunity to discuss your interest in Georgia Tech and write a personal statement on the following page.

Please limit to 2000 characters, including spaces and punctuation.

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