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How selective it is?

By Leejwwc (Leejwwc) on Thursday, October 30, 2003 - 06:38 pm: Edit

Many of my friends want to go to GeorgiaTech, and I heard that its engineering programs are top 5 in the US across the board. - That's pretty impressive considering its a public. SAT's are around 1200-1400. I also heard a rumor that they have freshman-elimination courses in some top notch programs where if you don't do well enough, you are kicked out of the program or on probation or something. I'd say GeorgiaTech is pretty much your supercompetitive tech school!

By Wtsherman (Wtsherman) on Thursday, October 30, 2003 - 10:47 pm: Edit

Teachers:

If you have students considering Georgia Tech, you may want to reconsider. Despite Georgia Tech’s glowing admission’s propaganda, no other highly regarded school in the country ranks so poorly, so consistently, in so broad a range of categories. Don’t take my word for it. Spend five minutes and check out these websites for yourself. The first two sites are good uncensored references for any school.

http://www.studentsreview.com - More than 50% of the Georgia Tech students surveyed on this MIT student website say they wish they had gone to another school. The uncensored comments are overwhelmingly negative. Students at comparable engineering schools - MIT, Stanford, Duke and Carnegie-Mellon, and others – seem to like their schools fine. At U.S. News & World Report, GT ranks at the bottom for freshman retention, % graduating in six years, and student satisfaction, based on alumni donations.

http://www.princetonreview.com - In 2002, based on 100,000 interviews at 345 schools, Georgia Tech rates #2 for the “least happy” student body in the country, and #4 for professors who “squeeze the life out of the material.” In 2003, Tech was #3 for lousy professors. Tech gets low rankings in half a dozen other negative categories, as well.

http://www.assessment.gatech.edu/eReports/Negative%20Publicity%20at%20Georgia%20Techfinal4.pdf Georgia Tech’s on internal report on the Princeton Review showed GT students significantly less happy with the quality of their education and their college experience, than their peers at similar schools.

http://www.geocities.com/gtsux2002/ - This website, by Georgia Tech students, says it all in its name. The Washington Post article on Georgia Tech (see links page) is textbook on how Tech treats its students.

http://www.police.gatech.edu - Georgia Tech is unsafe. For nine years Atlanta has been ranked by Morgan Quinto in the top three most dangerous cities in the country and Georgia Tech is located smack in the middle of one of the city’s most dangerous crime areas. In 1999, Tech was ranked in the top 20 most dangerous college campuses in the country. A series of articles in the Georgia Tech student newspaper – The Technique (July 12, Nov. 1, 2002 & Jan 31, March 14 & 21, 2003 - http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/technique/ ) detail rising campus crime, including students robbed at gunpoint in dorms and women sexually assaulted in the student center.

http://www.blackenterprise.com/ExclusivesekOpen.asp?id=106 Black Enterprise magazine – Jan. 2003 issue – Based on interviews with some 200 African-American professionals and academics, BE picks Atlanta as a top destination for African-American college students, but redneck Georgia Tech fails to make the grade. BE lists four Atlanta schools – three traditionally black schools and Emory - as recommended in the top 50. BE names half-a-dozen engineering schools as minority friendly, but not Georgia Tech.

Business Week magazine – Oct. 21, 2002 issue - While Business Week names its top 30 MBA schools, Georgia Tech was deleted from its recommended list. It is the only school in the 2000 list to be removed from the 2002 list. US News followed suit and dropped GT from its top 50 in April 2003. To see how Georgia Tech compares with other business management programs, go to www.bschool.com/ussbys.html and see a side-by-side comparisons of the best business programs in the nation and world. Georgia Tech does not make a single list, including those, like Financial Times, that rank the top 100.

Finally, Georgia Tech has raised its out-of-state costs to almost $25,000 in the last two years, while slashing its operating budget. That means higher prices, more crowded classrooms, fewer class offerings and more classes taught by grad students. Tech brags that it takes five or more years to “get out” – as if from boot camp, making it more expensive than most private schools. Considering that Princeton Review ranks GT in the top 20 for lousy professors, dorms like dungeons, bad food and poor quality of life, out-of-state students do not get what they pay for.

By College (College) on Sunday, November 09, 2003 - 01:03 pm: Edit

bump........

By Ughstinkysocks (Ughstinkysocks) on Monday, November 10, 2003 - 08:26 pm: Edit

i live in georgia and tech is one of the top choices for kids that want to major in engineering... if u dont want that as a career my opinion is that YOU DONT GO THERE... the atmosphere there is horrible ...everyone stays in their cubicle size... ever since they got a new dean the undergrad level of education tremendously decreased... i know like 30 kids that went there... they either regret goin there or were glad they got out when they did... the suicide rate is the highest in ga... its the second most depressed school in the nation according to princeton review... its no party school... in fact the social areana there sucks.... if ure a girl ure chances of getting in are high since they guy-girl ratio is so screwed... i would only recommend it if ure dedicated and will work HARD HARD to become an engineer and dont care about ure social life...

By Unibrow (Unibrow) on Monday, November 10, 2003 - 09:56 pm: Edit

i live close to Atlanta and whenever I pass by GATech, i swear i'm passing by a prison. it just looks so dark and...well, crappy. alot of the brighter students at my school are applying to Tech, but I for one, am not applying. If you live in Georgia and you're going into engineering, then I guess go ahead and apply for Tech, but if you live elsewhere...you can find better colleges.

By Sephora (Sephora) on Monday, November 10, 2003 - 10:23 pm: Edit

ga tech is really not that bad from what i hear.. yes, the work IS demanding and you MUST be a dilligent student. plus it's right in the downtown of atlanta, so just about everything is w/in a couple of miles. but ya.. the guy:girl ratio is like 7:3 or something.. soo..