would anyone choose UMichigan engineering over GTech?
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Anonymous
+1 There are plenty of non-academic reasons a student might prefer one or the other of these two excellent schools. |
Anonymous
| Michigan is the easier admit. |
Anonymous
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For extra 30+k a year, is UMich really worth it more than GT?
I would choose GT in a heartbeat. |
Anonymous
| now between gt and cmu |
Anonymous
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Both are great schools. Congratulations.
This is a fit/finance question. |
Anonymous
| I'd choose Michigan over GTech. That's because I think good chance kids will change majors. |
Anonymous
| I’d choose Michigan. Engineering students can get a minor or dual major in business from Ross. |
Anonymous
| As a Michigan engineering major who decided part way through college that engineering was not for me, Michigan offered me a lot of other opportunities. It was great to be able to try out other colleges and majors. And it was both fun and high-quality. |
Anonymous
| The real question is would anyone choose Umich over Georgia Tech. My kid chose GTech over and it wasn't even close for him. |
Anonymous
lol to what? Humanities? |
Anonymous
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GT is a more selective school. But, it's all preference. A lot of GT rejects are at Michigan.
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-engineering/ |
Anonymous
Those numbers would look a lot different if it could be broken down to just Engineering majors. Tech is top 3. |
Anonymous
That and UMich is a huge school receives 115,000 applications and admits more than double some of these schools. Thousands of their in-state applications that won't pay to go out of state. I would like to see the comparison where they separated out for OOS non Michigan residents against these other top schools for OOS. Clearly the large amount of in-state kids applying will pick Michigan. I think like 80% of in-state Michigan residents pick UMich for obvious financial reasons. If you just look at the acceptance rate for both schools last cycle. Georgia Tech had a 12.7 Overall Acceptance rate and UMich was at 15.2 %. https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=University+of+Michigan+-+Ann+Arbor&with=Cornell+University https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=University+of+Michigan+-+Ann+Arbor&with=University+of+Virginia https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=University+of+Michigan+-+Ann+Arbor&with=University+of+Texas+at+Austin https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=University+of+Michigan+-+Ann+Arbor&with=New+York+University |
Anonymous
…and Michigan is top 5. I think too many here are conflating Michigan Engineering with UVA. |