ecnerwalc3321

yeah, I know numerous people instate who received teh HOPE scholarship because they couldn't keep their GPA up FIRST year. I have actually decided against going to GT simple because their quality of life seems suspicious. It IS pretty dead and dropouts are high.

but I still don't see how the schools that are tougher to get into are easeier to graduate. So the classes are the same dificulty. But the PEOPLE make the differnece, right?

Joycell

My D ended up at Yale. Difficult classes right? But the PROFESSORS make the difference. At GTech all they ever talked about was how difficult the school was, how challenging it was...we didn't hear that kind of dialog at ANY of the 15 OTHER schools we looked at!

ohnoes

If a school is tougher to get in to, then naturally they are typically going to have a higher % of the top students. It makes sense that most students who get in to a CalTech can handle the work (and even then most of them consider their workload tough), while some people who got in to GaTech, especially in-state, wouldn't really know how tough it is until they got there because they figured they could handle it if they got in.

For instance, take Cornell. Many prestige whores choose it simply because its "IVY LEAGUE!!1" and a bit easier to get in to than the others. These people usually don't last long once they realize that Cornell is actually hard, especially if they do engineering. However, people who chose the school for its own merits, other than simply being IVY (it's "Ivy", by the way - it doesn't stand for anything), typically do fine.

Joycell

GTech makes a point - almost a MISSION - of talking up how difficult the curriculum is...it's the first thing out of everyone's mouth...really over-emphasized when we visited 4 years ago...and this is what they told the most QUALIFIED STUDENTS - their Presidential Scholars!

pseudoquotient

is the male/female ratio really that pronounced?

mom2collegekids

You should start a new thread instead of reviving a very old one.

Yes, the ratio of males to females is very significant.