“Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?

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Anonymous wrote:Miami Ohio is literally where the rich kids who didn't do so hot go. It is full of preppy white kids. Like a 3rd tier Ivy or somethings. It was weird. But they like their niche

Full of Paul Ryan types

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Anonymous wrote:I am curious why Tulane is so popular. I mean I love NOLA more than most cities, but Tulane just wasn't that great in my opinion. I hear their dorms are abysmal too.

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Pitt is fire hot

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Anonymous wrote:GT is a good school but it’s no mit.

Well, MIT is the best engineering school in the country. So you have a point. But it is ranked 4th in the country in engineering. If you are serious about engineering, it is an excellent consolation prize.

GT has the best aerospace engineering program in the U.S. It's almost impossible to get into, especially OOS

Interesting. I know that it’s way better than Maryland’s.

Maryland is in the top 10. It isn’t that much better.

Really? May be it is not much better in Aerospace on your scales, but in everything else engineering UMD is not even close...
This year MD is only 12th in aerospace. By the way, did you realized that VT is also better in engineering than UMD? UMD is general university. Any Tech is mostly focuses on Tech subjects (engineering and science.)
This is like to compare apples and oranges, and concluded that fruits can be grown successfully in any garden because apricots had good crop last year.
Some resent stat for GT (undergraduate) for you:
#8 (tie) in Top Public Schools
#6 (tie) in Management Information Systems
#7 (tie) in Production / Operation Management
#7 in Quantitative Analysis
#8 (tie) in Supply Chain Management / Logistics
#4 (tie) in Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs
#2 in Aerospace /Aeronautical / Astronautical Eng
#3 in Biomedical Eng
#2 in Chemical Eng
#2 in Civil Eng
#5 in Computer Eng
#4 in Electrical / Electronic / Communications Eng
#4 in Environmental / Environmental Health
#1 in Industrial / Manufacturing Eng
#3 in Materials Eng
#2 in Mechanical Eng

Sorry, I am biased. OOS tuition and acceptance rate for OOS are big issues at GT. Yes it is not MIT, but it is way more advanced than UMD in STEM fields.
I get it that South/Atlanta is not for everyone.
Ga Tech graduate in a field that GaTech is #1 for last 30 years...

You are obnoxious. No one is going to pay OOS prices to go to GT when UMD is right here for a 1/3 of the price in state. Who cares if it is "only" 13th instead of 2nd out of hundreds of schools. They have NASA close by, buoyancy tank, wind tunnels, and Clark just donated another 220 million dollars to the engineering school. And who cares if it is general education school. That is great if you want more diverse options for electives, or to take minor in something else besides technical. Or maybe if you decide you want to switch majors to a non-technical, you won't have transfer to a different college. Many you just don't want to be around all nerdy technical people in one place.

Not bashing Georgia Tech at all, but they give terrible merit and aid. Great option for instate for sure, but full price when MD and VA both have great instate engineering programs? No way.

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Anonymous wrote:Miami Ohio is literally where the rich kids who didn't do so hot go. It is full of preppy white kids. Like a 3rd tier Ivy or somethings. It was weird. But they like their niche

Full of Paul Ryan types

Exactly!

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Anonymous wrote:Pitt is fire hot

One of the only schools my daughter is applying to that doesn't have her number 1 major. She just absolutely loved it there and we visited when it was cold and snow on the ground.

I think Case Western is pretty popular these days. Kids seem to be trending towards schools in nice parts of urban areas that give free transportation around the city. Case and Pitt do that. More kids seem to want to branch out of just hanging on campus and depending on frat row to socialize.