Georgia Tech (OOS) or UVA (in-state) for Aerospace Engineering? Need to decide by April 30th. TIA

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GT

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GT I should add, that after a year, you can rent a place off campus, register to vote, and register your car in Ga, and then get on state tuition. So, the difference won't be as bad as $20k a year.

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Anonymous wrote:I am GA Tech graduate (20 years ago), have BS (Science) and MS (Engineering) from there.
GA tech is Engineering and Science school. It is tough school. It is serious place.
I obviously have many friends from GaTech. All who were technical major CS, Math, any type of Engineering = were successful in their fields.
On the other hand Biologyy, Economics majors etc. = felt that Georgia Tech was wrong place for them. They had to work extremely hard, and still could not get high GPAs.
That limited their choices for grad schools.

On the other hand, if you are sure 100% that you want to do Aerospace Engineering, you cannot beat GaTech.

I think since you are not sure what you are doing in your life yet, you better stay with UVA. It is great school, you will have many choices. It will not cost your fortune to change major. If you will decided to do engineering, you can transfer to VaTech and save a lot of money. You can use saved money to go to GaTech for masters in that case .

I'm a gt grad and strongly disagree with this. The work experience and stem degree you get from tech are game changers. I would also hate to enter undergrad with the expectation of definitely attending and paying for grad school. Go and get a degree where a masters or mba isn't necessarily required.

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Lastly I'd add the UVa aero engineering grads I know are arrogant and seemed full of themselves whereas the Georgia Tech grads were more than competent and confident but humble. I'd rather be associated with the latter - especially considering the great coops and work study opportunities at Ga Tech.

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Anonymous wrote:GT I should add, that after a year, you can rent a place off campus, register to vote, and register your car in Ga, and then get on state tuition. So, the difference won't be as bad as $20k a year.

This is not true. Do not count on this.
Unless your parents move and pay claim Georgia as their primary, you will not become Georgia resident.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am GA Tech graduate (20 years ago), have BS (Science) and MS (Engineering) from there.
GA tech is Engineering and Science school. It is tough school. It is serious place.
I obviously have many friends from GaTech. All who were technical major CS, Math, any type of Engineering = were successful in their fields.
On the other hand Biologyy, Economics majors etc. = felt that Georgia Tech was wrong place for them. They had to work extremely hard, and still could not get high GPAs.
That limited their choices for grad schools.

On the other hand, if you are sure 100% that you want to do Aerospace Engineering, you cannot beat GaTech.

I think since you are not sure what you are doing in your life yet, you better stay with UVA. It is great school, you will have many choices. It will not cost your fortune to change major. If you will decided to do engineering, you can transfer to VaTech and save a lot of money. You can use saved money to go to GaTech for masters in that case .

I'm a gt grad and strongly disagree with this. The work experience and stem degree you get from tech are game changers. I would also hate to enter undergrad with the expectation of definitely attending and paying for grad school. Go and get a degree where a masters or mba isn't necessarily required.

Well, I would recommend my kids definitely consider Masters from day 1... So there are money for everyone and everything....

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am GA Tech graduate (20 years ago), have BS (Science) and MS (Engineering) from there.
GA tech is Engineering and Science school. It is tough school. It is serious place.
I obviously have many friends from GaTech. All who were technical major CS, Math, any type of Engineering = were successful in their fields.
On the other hand Biologyy, Economics majors etc. = felt that Georgia Tech was wrong place for them. They had to work extremely hard, and still could not get high GPAs.
That limited their choices for grad schools.

On the other hand, if you are sure 100% that you want to do Aerospace Engineering, you cannot beat GaTech.

I think since you are not sure what you are doing in your life yet, you better stay with UVA. It is great school, you will have many choices. It will not cost your fortune to change major. If you will decided to do engineering, you can transfer to VaTech and save a lot of money. You can use saved money to go to GaTech for masters in that case .

I'm a gt grad and strongly disagree with this. The work experience and stem degree you get from tech are game changers. I would also hate to enter undergrad with the expectation of definitely attending and paying for grad school. Go and get a degree where a masters or mba isn't necessarily required.

Well, I would recommend my kids definitely consider Masters from day 1... So there are money for everyone and everything....

That's great. But not everyone wants to go and get a masters. Like everything in life it's great to have a choice!

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Anonymous wrote:I get the aerospace thing, but in general, there is very little reason to ever turn down UVA in-state, given the still not unreasonable tuition.

Get out of this area and try a new city. You can avoid the lemmings from NoVA who think VA schools are the only option.

Uh, yeah, but when you have a terrific in state option like UVa, as the OP does, only a fool would take such an attitude about "lemmings."

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get the aerospace thing, but in general, there is very little reason to ever turn down UVA in-state, given the still not unreasonable tuition.

Get out of this area and try a new city. You can avoid the lemmings from NoVA who think VA schools are the only option.

Uh, yeah, but when you have a terrific in state option like UVa, as the OP does, only a fool would take such an attitude about "lemmings."

UVa is for frat boys and rednecks.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get the aerospace thing, but in general, there is very little reason to ever turn down UVA in-state, given the still not unreasonable tuition.

Get out of this area and try a new city. You can avoid the lemmings from NoVA who think VA schools are the only option.

Uh, yeah, but when you have a terrific in state option like UVa, as the OP does, only a fool would take such an attitude about "lemmings."

This is the cult-like attitude about VA state schools that makes my skin crawl. Must get out of this area!!

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Caveat: if what you are really saying is that your inner poet is railing against your parents pushing you to become an engineer and forcing you to take year of extra science and math classes since birth and attend Space Camp; well then, UVA would give you more flexibility for when you gain some distance from your parents and assert your true colors (in addition to coming as less of a financial blow to them).

But if aerospace engineering was your idea, then GA.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get the aerospace thing, but in general, there is very little reason to ever turn down UVA in-state, given the still not unreasonable tuition.

Get out of this area and try a new city. You can avoid the lemmings from NoVA who think VA schools are the only option.

Uh, yeah, but when you have a terrific in state option like UVa, as the OP does, only a fool would take such an attitude about "lemmings."

This is the cult-like attitude about VA state schools that makes my skin crawl. Must get out of this area!!

Odd how all the supposed enlighten and educated people in the DC area are obsessed with University of Confederacy aka UVA.

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I'd add the UVa aero engineering grads I know are arrogant and seemed full of themselves

How many do you know? Two? Five?

Are you saying that just going through that program makes you arrogant?

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Anonymous wrote:What else could you major in at tech if you get there and loathe aerospace engineering?

All STEM stuff. Computer science. College of computing. They also have a liberal arts college

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Anonymous wrote:This is a random but think about where you want to live after college

If you want to or are ok with living in the DC area choose UVA
If you want to or are ok with living somewhere else besides DC or VA generally choose Georgia Tech

Also don't think too hard. You will do well wherever you will go

Congratulations

Dumb. You can live anywhere after graduating from either place.