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Whats up fellas. I am having a dilema. i do not know whether i should consider Ga Tech or University of Florida. I heard that Ga Tech is good, but university of florida gives better oppurtunities to minorities. can anyone help me out with my dilema. By the way, my stats are as follows.

sat:1210
act:24
GPA: 3.38 uw, 3.75 w
7 honors, 2 AP's

schedule:
AP PHYSICS, AP FRENCH, AP GOVERNMENT,spanish 2, regular english

i am also an african american. top 20%

By Collegebound05 (Collegebound05) on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 05:03 pm: Edit

if you go to UF, I'll see you there! That's where I plan to go. I'm an African-American female-thanks for the info about how UF gives opportunities to minorities, it makes me want to go there more! But personally, I think that you need to get those test scores up. I can't really talk though-i only got a 27-and I havent taken the SAT (i live in chicago, they don't push it here)so you know, we both need to get to work. but my advice is to-like me-take those tests again. you can do it!

oh, and georgia tech is good, but UF is better.

By Gatechboy (Gatechboy) on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 06:44 pm: Edit

oh, i already got recognition from there. they invited me for a national african american program thing. i did not get to go, but it was for getting familiar with the application process. They wanted us to bring essays and everything, becuase they would have allowed me to apply on the spot. anyways, with a 27, you dont need to worry.

By Wtsherman (Wtsherman) on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 10:57 pm: Edit

studentsreview.com - 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.

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.isi.org - The Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s 2004 “Choosing the Right College” guidebook, endorsed by William Bennett, Thomas Sowell and other conservatives, features a less than peachy critique of Georgia Tech – uncaring administration, serious crime problem, creeping political correctness and a student body lacking in intellectual curiosity. Along with Princeton Review, this makes two national guidebooks with unflattering reviews of Georgia Tech.

http://www.assessment.gatech.edu/eReports/Negative%20Publicity%20at%20Georgia%20Techfinal4.pdf Georgia Tech’s own 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. www.securityoncampus.org has a link to the latest FBI campus crime report, that finds Georgia Tech the #4 most dangerous campus in the country. http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2003-11-13/news_feature2.html

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. In the Financial Times 2004 rankings, Georgia Tech drops from #85 to #94, the lowest ranked U.S. school in the list. http://rankings.ft.com/rankings/mba/rankings.html

By Gatechboy (Gatechboy) on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 11:23 pm: Edit

so what do you think i should consider, given my stats. and by the way, when i went to ga tech, it seemed everybody was fine. i think the reason why so many kids are dissatisfied is because they never go off the freakin campus. i mean think about it, you are in a city of over 4 million people, top tourist destination, tons of mall(17 around the metro area) a theme park, tos of clubs, sports venues, former olympic city, and internationally recognized city. i dont get it. i just dont.

By Bookworm (Bookworm) on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 11:32 pm: Edit

I know one male in EE at GT, and he is doing very well and likes it. He has no regrets choosing GT over UF.

By Gatechboy (Gatechboy) on Thursday, July 29, 2004 - 11:15 am: Edit

somebody else answer

By Lkcrhcp (Lkcrhcp) on Thursday, July 29, 2004 - 04:32 pm: Edit

I live in suburban atl, and our school sends some of it's brightest there. However, once there, many lose their hope scholarship and are failing classes for the first time in their lives. As they say here if you want to party go to UGA, if not go to tech.

By Laceycheer (Laceycheer) on Friday, July 30, 2004 - 10:24 am: Edit

UF is most likely where I will be going. It is a great school, the architecture is abosolutely beautiful, and has limitless choices in academics. One thing to consider, is whether the location works for you. Gainesville isnt Atlanta by any means. Its right by The Ocala National forest. It has restuarants and bars and a few movie theaters and a mall, and then tons of springs where you can canoe, cave dive, SCUBA and stuff, hiking and camping opportunities, the Gulf 30 min away, etc etc.... So make sure you love the outdoors.

By Vsage3 (Vsage3) on Friday, August 06, 2004 - 03:45 am: Edit

UF is too normal. That was made painfully clear from freshman orientation which I just got back from. A friend of mine put it this way. If you want to get married to a girl right out of college, go to UF. If you want to get married to a company, go to GT. In some ways he speaks the truth because the courseload is much lighter at UF from all of the 10 or so kids from GT and 20 or so from UF I hear. I can't say one is worse but GT is DEFINITELY better about hardcore research but UF is better about giving you research grants. It's all in interests. I don't know about the Gulf being 30 minutes away but the decent areas of the Florida coastline are an hour away easy.