This is Part III in Engineering a Program, our series on explaining Georgia Tech’s athletic context to outsiders. If you’d like to read other parts of the series or get a primer on what the series is about, head to its homepage.
Reducing Georgia Tech’s athletic recruitment issues to its engineering curriculum and rigor is, well, reductive: there are several deeper cultural factors at play not related to the Institute’s academics. Much like the admissions process at Tech, holistic review might be the most effective way to evaluate and deconstruct the unique state of play at Tech, and the best place to start with such a review would be the relationship between athletics and the student body itself.