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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC is looking into GT - poster who said very expensive - is it not worth it?[/quote]

OP - I'm not the person you asked but here are a few things to consider:

a) We can't answer that because your financial situation is uniquely yours. I personally wouldn't go into debt to go to GT over VT, but maybe you don't have to, or maybe VT isn't appealing for one of a hundred legitimate reasons.

b) Yeah, GT is great, but so are the students.  Is your kid going to be able to hold her own there?  Does getting in mean handling the work? Not every kid wants to rise to every challenge. Some don't want to bust their buts to barely be mediocre.  If so, maybe a reach isn't the right approach for engineering when someplace else might give your kid more access to all the elite stuff.  Again, we can't answer that for you.

c) if there are any degrees where the school doesn't matter, it is the engineering degrees.  Kids do just about the same thereafter.  They get good jobs and pay their loans back.  At UW, UW-Madison, VT GT, UMCP, UMN. OSU... calc, physics, chemistry will all be huge and impersonal. It just doesn't matter.  I think the bigger question would be if your kid wanted to be at a small environment or a big school.  But that takes us back to point a).

d) is your second choice option a good one, or is it not?

So is it worth it? DCUM can't answer that.[/quote]

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