GA Tech? Rankings?

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Anonymous wrote:A good school but they'll continue having trouble playing second fiddle to Emory. In fact they're lucky Emory doesn't have engineering because GT would like be completely irrelevant If Emory did. For most states there can only be one top school the only other thing is for Georgia to become a more important state.

+1000, Emory would just siphon off all there top out of state students.

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Anonymous wrote:This school is very much overrated. Someone posted in another thread the avg salary is only 75k.

That is not a good yardstick...in that other post, it says the average salary for Yale is $70k. What does that tell you? Not sure.

Is Yale an engineering school? Over 75% of GT is engineering or computer science.

DP.. I think you also need to look at *where* those GT grads are getting jobs. Not all STEM jobs pay the same as in SV across the country. If these folks are mostly getting jobs in lcol areas, then it makes sense that the median/average salary is lower than the country wide average which is pulling salaries from hcol areas.

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Anonymous wrote:This school is very much overrated. Someone posted in another thread the avg salary is only 75k.

That is not a good yardstick...in that other post, it says the average salary for Yale is $70k. What does that tell you? Not sure.

Is Yale an engineering school? Over 75% of GT is engineering or computer science.

DP.. I think you also need to look at *where* those GT grads are getting jobs. Not all STEM jobs pay the same as in SV across the country. If these folks are mostly getting jobs in lcol areas, then it makes sense that the median/average salary is lower than the country wide average which is pulling salaries from hcol areas.

Their career data says CS majors make 100k a year. So the other majors must be making much less for the avg to be 75k. I stand by what I said, yes it's in the south but it's still not impressive, and says those grads can't get jobs out west and up north.

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Anonymous wrote:A good school but they'll continue having trouble playing second fiddle to Emory. In fact they're lucky Emory doesn't have engineering because GT would like be completely irrelevant If Emory did. For most states there can only be one top school the only other thing is for Georgia to become a more important state.

+1000, Emory would just siphon off all there top out of state students.

Strongly disagree with this. Emory and GT are very different schools. It’s unusual for someone to apply to both schools. The student bodies are incredibly different.

A lot of southerners attend GT. Emory isn’t considered a southern school. It isn’t a traditional land grant college with a large Greek life and athletics program. Most southerners consider it a strong graduate school. It’s okay for graduate school, but that’s it. It has a large Jewish population and many students from the NE. I grew up in an UMC circle in the south and no one considered Emory. It’s jokingly called “Long Island university of Atlanta.”

GT is strong academically and also has a large athletics program and Greek life. The schools are very different. No one at either school even talks about the other school. UGA is a big rival to GT. Emory is also on the other side of Atlanta and the schools don’t typically play each other in sports or have any sort of interaction at all. If you attend GT, you’ll never hear about Emory and I assume vice versa.

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Anonymous wrote:This school is very much overrated. Someone posted in another thread the avg salary is only 75k.

That is not a good yardstick...in that other post, it says the average salary for Yale is $70k. What does that tell you? Not sure.

Is Yale an engineering school? Over 75% of GT is engineering or computer science.

DP.. I think you also need to look at *where* those GT grads are getting jobs. Not all STEM jobs pay the same as in SV across the country. If these folks are mostly getting jobs in lcol areas, then it makes sense that the median/average salary is lower than the country wide average which is pulling salaries from hcol areas.

Their career data says CS majors make 100k a year. So the other majors must be making much less for the avg to be 75k. I stand by what I said, yes it's in the south but it's still not impressive, and says those grads can't get jobs out west and up north.

This isn’t true at all. There are a lot of GT grads in SV. A better way to judge would be to check out which companies attend on campus recruiting events.

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Anonymous wrote:A good school but they'll continue having trouble playing second fiddle to Emory. In fact they're lucky Emory doesn't have engineering because GT would like be completely irrelevant If Emory did. For most states there can only be one top school the only other thing is for Georgia to become a more important state.

+1000, Emory would just siphon off all there top out of state students.

Strongly disagree with this. Emory and GT are very different schools. It’s unusual for someone to apply to both schools. The student bodies are incredibly different.

A lot of southerners attend GT. Emory isn’t considered a southern school. It isn’t a traditional land grant college with a large Greek life and athletics program. Most southerners consider it a strong graduate school. It’s okay for graduate school, but that’s it. It has a large Jewish population and many students from the NE. I grew up in an UMC circle in the south and no one considered Emory. It’s jokingly called “Long Island university of Atlanta.”

GT is strong academically and also has a large athletics program and Greek life. The schools are very different. No one at either school even talks about the other school. UGA is a big rival to GT. Emory is also on the other side of Atlanta and the schools don’t typically play each other in sports or have any sort of interaction at all. If you attend GT, you’ll never hear about Emory and I assume vice versa.

This, DS applied for their aerospace program. It's very difficult to get into. Never even discussed Emory. Apples and organges.

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Anonymous wrote:A good school but they'll continue having trouble playing second fiddle to Emory. In fact they're lucky Emory doesn't have engineering because GT would like be completely irrelevant If Emory did. For most states there can only be one top school the only other thing is for Georgia to become a more important state.

+1000, Emory would just siphon off all there top out of state students.

Strongly disagree with this. Emory and GT are very different schools. It’s unusual for someone to apply to both schools. The student bodies are incredibly different.

A lot of southerners attend GT. Emory isn’t considered a southern school. It isn’t a traditional land grant college with a large Greek life and athletics program. Most southerners consider it a strong graduate school. It’s okay for graduate school, but that’s it. It has a large Jewish population and many students from the NE. I grew up in an UMC circle in the south and no one considered Emory. It’s jokingly called “Long Island university of Atlanta.”

GT is strong academically and also has a large athletics program and Greek life. The schools are very different. No one at either school even talks about the other school. UGA is a big rival to GT. Emory is also on the other side of Atlanta and the schools don’t typically play each other in sports or have any sort of interaction at all. If you attend GT, you’ll never hear about Emory and I assume vice versa.

I don't see how this changes what I said, Both schools don't compete now because they don't offer each other's majors, however if Emory did offer engineering GT wouldn't be able to compete. However if GT developed health programs Emory would still be fine, because Emory is the prestigious one and has the advantage. Whenever Emory decides to enter the tech arena, Gtech would be in trouble.

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I went to HS in Georgia, in a place where most kids who went to college stayed in state (and went public). Tech was where the smartest STEM kids went. No, it's not on par with MIT or CalTech, but it's an excellent and highly respected school. As others have noted, Emory was for rich, out-of-state folks. I don't think things have changed much in that regard.

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Anonymous wrote:A good school but they'll continue having trouble playing second fiddle to Emory. In fact they're lucky Emory doesn't have engineering because GT would like be completely irrelevant If Emory did. For most states there can only be one top school the only other thing is for Georgia to become a more important state.

+1000, Emory would just siphon off all there top out of state students.

Strongly disagree with this. Emory and GT are very different schools. It’s unusual for someone to apply to both schools. The student bodies are incredibly different.

A lot of southerners attend GT. Emory isn’t considered a southern school. It isn’t a traditional land grant college with a large Greek life and athletics program. Most southerners consider it a strong graduate school. It’s okay for graduate school, but that’s it. It has a large Jewish population and many students from the NE. I grew up in an UMC circle in the south and no one considered Emory. It’s jokingly called “Long Island university of Atlanta.”

GT is strong academically and also has a large athletics program and Greek life. The schools are very different. No one at either school even talks about the other school. UGA is a big rival to GT. Emory is also on the other side of Atlanta and the schools don’t typically play each other in sports or have any sort of interaction at all. If you attend GT, you’ll never hear about Emory and I assume vice versa.

I don't see how this changes what I said, Both schools don't compete now because they don't offer each other's majors, however if Emory did offer engineering GT wouldn't be able to compete. However if GT developed health programs Emory would still be fine, because Emory is the prestigious one and has the advantage. Whenever Emory decides to enter the tech arena, Gtech would be in trouble.

You’ve completely missed the point. It has nothing to do with majors.

Emory:
Mostly a grad school across the board
No football team
Mostly northerners / Jews
Small Greek life

GT:
Public school
Mostly southerners
Football team and large athletics department
Large Greek life

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Anonymous wrote:I went to HS in Georgia, in a place where most kids who went to college stayed in state (and went public). Tech was where the smartest STEM kids went. No, it's not on par with MIT or CalTech, but it's an excellent and highly respected school. As others have noted, Emory was for rich, out-of-state folks. I don't think things have changed much in that regard.

They don't go because they can't get into Emory. Gatech instate acceptance rate is 40%, Emorys is closer to 10%. I agree that is apples and oranges.

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Anonymous wrote:A good school but they'll continue having trouble playing second fiddle to Emory. In fact they're lucky Emory doesn't have engineering because GT would like be completely irrelevant If Emory did. For most states there can only be one top school the only other thing is for Georgia to become a more important state.

+1000, Emory would just siphon off all there top out of state students.

Strongly disagree with this. Emory and GT are very different schools. It’s unusual for someone to apply to both schools. The student bodies are incredibly different.

A lot of southerners attend GT. Emory isn’t considered a southern school. It isn’t a traditional land grant college with a large Greek life and athletics program. Most southerners consider it a strong graduate school. It’s okay for graduate school, but that’s it. It has a large Jewish population and many students from the NE. I grew up in an UMC circle in the south and no one considered Emory. It’s jokingly called “Long Island university of Atlanta.”

GT is strong academically and also has a large athletics program and Greek life. The schools are very different. No one at either school even talks about the other school. UGA is a big rival to GT. Emory is also on the other side of Atlanta and the schools don’t typically play each other in sports or have any sort of interaction at all. If you attend GT, you’ll never hear about Emory and I assume vice versa.

I don't see how this changes what I said, Both schools don't compete now because they don't offer each other's majors, however if Emory did offer engineering GT wouldn't be able to compete. However if GT developed health programs Emory would still be fine, because Emory is the prestigious one and has the advantage. Whenever Emory decides to enter the tech arena, Gtech would be in trouble.

They don’t compete because self respecting southerners don’t apply to a school that’s for Jews from Long Island. And Jews from Long Island don’t care about Georgia tech. Understand now???

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Anonymous wrote:I went to HS in Georgia, in a place where most kids who went to college stayed in state (and went public). Tech was where the smartest STEM kids went. No, it's not on par with MIT or CalTech, but it's an excellent and highly respected school. As others have noted, Emory was for rich, out-of-state folks. I don't think things have changed much in that regard.

They don't go because they can't get into Emory. Gatech instate acceptance rate is 40%, Emorys is closer to 10%. I agree that is apples and oranges.

No, they don’t apply. It’s not a school that someone who wants a traditional college experience applies to. Emory is like an NYU.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to HS in Georgia, in a place where most kids who went to college stayed in state (and went public). Tech was where the smartest STEM kids went. No, it's not on par with MIT or CalTech, but it's an excellent and highly respected school. As others have noted, Emory was for rich, out-of-state folks. I don't think things have changed much in that regard.

They don't go because they can't get into Emory. Gatech instate acceptance rate is 40%, Emorys is closer to 10%. I agree that is apples and oranges.

No, they don’t apply. It’s not a school that someone who wants a traditional college experience applies to. Emory is like an NYU.

I’ll also add that Emory is what, 70k a year? GT is $0 with the hope scholarship.

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Anonymous wrote:A good school but they'll continue having trouble playing second fiddle to Emory. In fact they're lucky Emory doesn't have engineering because GT would like be completely irrelevant If Emory did. For most states there can only be one top school the only other thing is for Georgia to become a more important state.

+1000, Emory would just siphon off all there top out of state students.

Strongly disagree with this. Emory and GT are very different schools. It’s unusual for someone to apply to both schools. The student bodies are incredibly different.

A lot of southerners attend GT. Emory isn’t considered a southern school. It isn’t a traditional land grant college with a large Greek life and athletics program. Most southerners consider it a strong graduate school. It’s okay for graduate school, but that’s it. It has a large Jewish population and many students from the NE. I grew up in an UMC circle in the south and no one considered Emory. It’s jokingly called “Long Island university of Atlanta.”

GT is strong academically and also has a large athletics program and Greek life. The schools are very different. No one at either school even talks about the other school. UGA is a big rival to GT. Emory is also on the other side of Atlanta and the schools don’t typically play each other in sports or have any sort of interaction at all. If you attend GT, you’ll never hear about Emory and I assume vice versa.

I don't see how this changes what I said, Both schools don't compete now because they don't offer each other's majors, however if Emory did offer engineering GT wouldn't be able to compete. However if GT developed health programs Emory would still be fine, because Emory is the prestigious one and has the advantage. Whenever Emory decides to enter the tech arena, Gtech would be in trouble.

They don’t compete because self respecting southerners don’t apply to a school that’s for Jews from Long Island. And Jews from Long Island don’t care about Georgia tech. Understand now???

Of course the self respecting southerner is racist/xenophobic. Gatech is ranked lower because at the end of the day, it's not the best school in the state. Maybe not explaining my point well enough but here it is again. Emory has enough of an endowment to do what GaTech does well even better. Emory could theoretically take GTs market share with ease. GAtech does not have the money nor the cache to do the same.

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Anonymous wrote:A good school but they'll continue having trouble playing second fiddle to Emory. In fact they're lucky Emory doesn't have engineering because GT would like be completely irrelevant If Emory did. For most states there can only be one top school the only other thing is for Georgia to become a more important state.

+1000, Emory would just siphon off all there top out of state students.

Strongly disagree with this. Emory and GT are very different schools. It’s unusual for someone to apply to both schools. The student bodies are incredibly different.

A lot of southerners attend GT. Emory isn’t considered a southern school. It isn’t a traditional land grant college with a large Greek life and athletics program. Most southerners consider it a strong graduate school. It’s okay for graduate school, but that’s it. It has a large Jewish population and many students from the NE. I grew up in an UMC circle in the south and no one considered Emory. It’s jokingly called “Long Island university of Atlanta.”

GT is strong academically and also has a large athletics program and Greek life. The schools are very different. No one at either school even talks about the other school. UGA is a big rival to GT. Emory is also on the other side of Atlanta and the schools don’t typically play each other in sports or have any sort of interaction at all. If you attend GT, you’ll never hear about Emory and I assume vice versa.

I don't see how this changes what I said, Both schools don't compete now because they don't offer each other's majors, however if Emory did offer engineering GT wouldn't be able to compete. However if GT developed health programs Emory would still be fine, because Emory is the prestigious one and has the advantage. Whenever Emory decides to enter the tech arena, Gtech would be in trouble.

Makes absolutely no sense...Emory offers computer science and is ranked #82. GA Tech is ranked #8.

Emory is in the tech arena in a small way and does not hold a candle to GA Tech. GA Tech does not really hold a candle to Emory in humanities. Why is this so controversial.