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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why so few choose (or are accepted to?) GA Tech Engineering or CS? Is it mainly/partially because they don't usually give aid to OOS students and/or they started to limit CS majors?

GT is a hard admit and they price themselves out of the market at TJ.
If you can get into GT from TJ, you can probably get in somewhere that looks better on a bumper sticker.

This is why the recent top CS/Eng kids we know from TJ and a known top private did not pick GT. They got in to Stanford, Penn, UCB EECS, or Princeton and picked there. The ones who picked GT were WL at the better-bumper-sticker schools.

Who cares about this anecdote. GT is the top pick for many in engineering outside of say MIT and Stanford. Everyone is different. GT turns down many that get into the schools you mentioned above as well. I also have those anecdotal stories I could share but what’s the point there. Not to mention the value and ROI for an engineering degree for GT is amazing

Is ROI for GT engineering netter than Berkeley or Michigan or Texas, etc.?

Anonymous wrote:My kid trying to decide between Georgia Tech and Northwestern for engineering right now. Thoughts? Anyone with experience

Anonymous wrote:If TJ students are as smart as they claim to be it shouldn’t matter where they go to college.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why so few choose (or are accepted to?) GA Tech Engineering or CS? Is it mainly/partially because they don't usually give aid to OOS students and/or they started to limit CS majors?

GT is a hard admit and they price themselves out of the market at TJ.
If you can get into GT from TJ, you can probably get in somewhere that looks better on a bumper sticker.

This is why the recent top CS/Eng kids we know from TJ and a known top private did not pick GT. They got in to Stanford, Penn, UCB EECS, or Princeton and picked there. The ones who picked GT were WL at the better-bumper-sticker schools.

Who cares about this anecdote. GT is the top pick for many in engineering outside of say MIT and Stanford. Everyone is different. GT turns down many that get into the schools you mentioned above as well. I also have those anecdotal stories I could share but what’s the point there. Not to mention the value and ROI for an engineering degree for GT is amazing

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why so few choose (or are accepted to?) GA Tech Engineering or CS? Is it mainly/partially because they don't usually give aid to OOS students and/or they started to limit CS majors?

GT is a hard admit and they price themselves out of the market at TJ.
If you can get into GT from TJ, you can probably get in somewhere that looks better on a bumper sticker.

This is why the recent top CS/Eng kids we know from TJ and a known top private did not pick GT. They got in to Stanford, Penn, UCB EECS, or Princeton and picked there. The ones who picked GT were WL at the better-bumper-sticker schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Top CS TJ students are looking for CMU.

As hard and as insane as this sounds, CMU is a backup even for CS for the top kids. CMU has been pretty generous in this regard.

Im sorry but what does that mean?

The top TJ students are having an easier time getting admission to CMU.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why so few choose (or are accepted to?) GA Tech Engineering or CS? Is it mainly/partially because they don't usually give aid to OOS students and/or they started to limit CS majors?

GT is a hard admit and they price themselves out of the market at TJ.
If you can get into GT from TJ, you can probably get in somewhere that looks better on a bumper sticker.

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Anonymous wrote:Top CS TJ students are looking for CMU.

As hard and as insane as this sounds, CMU is a backup even for CS for the top kids. CMU has been pretty generous in this regard.

Im sorry but what does that mean?

The top TJ students are having an easier time getting admission to CMU.

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Anonymous wrote:There are 501 seniors, so the Instagram account — with only 140 posts so far — is going to be a mostly incomplete dataset. But the top destinations (so far) from the (very incomplete) Instagram account:
Purdue - 12
UVA - 8
William & Mary - 7
Penn State - 7
U Maryland - 6
U Michigan - 5

Agreed with the poster above — don't expect a HYPSM / T20 university if your kid goes to TJ.

For those obsessed with T20 rankings, Purdue, Penn State, Maryland, and Michigan are all top 20 for engineering, with Purdue and Michigan considered among the best engineering schools in the country, even when compared to the Ivies, CMU, and JHU. It's likely that some STEM kids from TJ consider Purdue their equivalent of Harvard, especially when factoring in OOS costs.

What I find interesting is the absence of VT from this list. Students from my kid's NOVA public school often apply to Purdue and Penn State as alternatives to VT for engineering, as these schools are actually easier admits for NOVA kids applying OOS than VT is for in-state applicants. Purdue and Penn State were certainly my kid's backup options if rejected from VT.

LOLOL engineering “rankings” are crap

I agree - rankings are crap. But I can only assume that TJ students and their parents don't share that view. Take Purdue, for example. It's generally considered a top engineering school and currently ranks eighth for undergraduate and fifth for graduate engineering programs in the U.S. As one of the previous posters mentioned, it has had the highest number of Instagram admit posts for two years, with 19 admits in one year alone.

So either TJ kids just love the flat cornfields of rural Indiana and the cultural hub that is West Lafayette, or they're attending Purdue because of its top engineering and other STEM rankings. I think the latter is true.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why so few choose (or are accepted to?) GA Tech Engineering or CS? Is it mainly/partially because they don't usually give aid to OOS students and/or they started to limit CS majors?

GT is a hard admit and they price themselves out of the market at TJ.
If you can get into GT from TJ, you can probably get in somewhere that looks better on a bumper sticker.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why so few choose (or are accepted to?) GA Tech Engineering or CS? Is it mainly/partially because they don't usually give aid to OOS students and/or they started to limit CS majors?

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why so few choose (or are accepted to?) GA Tech Engineering or CS? Is it mainly/partially because they don't usually give aid to OOS students and/or they started to limit CS majors?

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Anonymous wrote:There are 501 seniors, so the Instagram account — with only 140 posts so far — is going to be a mostly incomplete dataset. But the top destinations (so far) from the (very incomplete) Instagram account:
Purdue - 12
UVA - 8
William & Mary - 7
Penn State - 7
U Maryland - 6
U Michigan - 5

Agreed with the poster above — don't expect a HYPSM / T20 university if your kid goes to TJ.

Not impressive. Maybe TJ isn't worth the hype.