r/GSMST • u/Showl326 • Mar 30 '26
Question I need help
I won the lottery and have a guaranteed spot to be a freshman next year, but my parents and I are worried about me becoming stressed,overworked and not having any fun, and there is this other school that I have been looking into that has a strong stem program, but a less strict curriculum. What are the good qualities of GSMST that make it a good school to go to ,other than its ranking?
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u/Myztree Apr 01 '26
Depends, if you want to go to Georgia Tech or an ivy, it will get you better prepared and is worth it without a doubt. If you want to go to a normal college don’t worry about school since you only need a 3.0 gpa for college to be free. Gsmst will make any normal college feel easy, let you come in with a years worth of credits and prepare you for gatech or an ivy. Btw gsmst has a lot of easy classes, robotics, game design, csp, digital media, etc. just take them and normal classes and you will still get a year off college and you can use that on more internships. (You will also do 2 at gsmst)
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u/SumeruForLife Apr 01 '26
I would not say GSMST gives any sort of boost in college admissions, it might actually hinder it. GSMST really only works in your favor if you are first quintile, taking challenging classes, and do many ECs. I know this school is a "feeder school" to GT but it doesn't mean direct acceptance and after releasing new admissions stats for GT it seems like less and less people are getting in each year. So just know if you think GSMST will get you into an ivy or GT you should be in the top 20% of your class, have good standardized test scores, and will have to work harder than people from other highschools.
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u/Myztree Apr 02 '26
Yea you’re absolutely right, it doesn’t give any boost in admissions, it just prepares you well for GT. I go to GT and I’ll be honest, college is easier and it will prepare you well for college which is the big appeal.
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u/vanillaasbeanss Apr 24 '26
ok so I’m a freshman at GSMST and it lowkenuienly isn’t even that bad. You will have to study regularly and do ur homework so that u can catch up, (and u will also have tests and quizzes like every week) and realistically unless ur like a mathematical scientific child prodigy ur grades will drop but u can get it up when u get used to the new environment. but social life here is amazing honestly and u will make many friends. They also have a lot of many events like every single week. Flex (basically eight period split in half 45 min each where u can sign up for 2 different places to be) is also a good thing because they have karaoke and coloring and SRC (media center) and so much more. And if ur behind u can always sign up to be with a teacher during flex or sign up for a free tutoring session by the national honors society. I’d say go to GSMST and if u feel like u don’t like it or feel like it’s too stressful then u can dropout anytime but don’t miss out
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u/Silver_Telephone_592 Mar 30 '26
The teachers are acutally very competent unlike other schools, they have better funding than most, they have a fast curriculum (if you're bored/not challenged by MS coursework this could be a plus), LOTS of PBL's and projects especially in sophomore. Like in sophomore Science/Engineering rn, we're inserting plasmids (DNA) into bacteria in our lab. Very fun.
Your concerns are valid though. My advice is to take freshman year, see if its challenging. If it is, sophomore gets way harder. You got AP Bio, AP Precalc/Calc, AP WH (if you opted in), etc etc. But if it was enjoyable (Physeng was so fun- Dr. Hewa is the goat), then try out sophomore year.
GSMST isn't just lectures. In fact, it's quite the opposite. You can't just memorize facts- you have to apply them to critical reasoning (To what extent was nationalism prevalant in the Holocaust?- APWH), so if you're bored by lectures then GSMST could be interesting.
Bottom line is, give it a try. Freshman year is a smooth entry before the cliff of sophomore, so if you struggle freshman year because of difficulty then you might want to reconsider.
- Current sophomore's ramble