1 week in and HATES GT!

Automaton
Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:17:36 +0000

GTSweetie:

I attended this program last summer. All I can tell you is for the most part I found it to be a complete waste of time, not to say I ddin’t enjoy the waste of time however. I took AP Calculus in high school and received credit to skip MATH 1501. I decided not to skip 1501 which was hands down one of the dumbest mistakes of this year in my opinion.

I signed up for the program because I thought it would brief me on what I may have forgotten from AP Calculus. What I thought was a calculus review turned out to be a pre calc review so I spent two weeks learning how to factor and sitting through monotonous busy work. I feel like I learned nothing. I’m sure if you missed out on Calculus though or took Statistics your senior year it may help.

What I did enjoy was the social aspect. I met a few awesome freshman like me, most of who I am still very close with. You get to do the GATech challenge course and it’s just a fun way to prepare yourself to actually live there.



I don’t think you should have sent your D there with this warning (on one of your threads). Especially when she already has calc concepts under her belt with AP, taking pre-calc is 10 steps backwards. Of course she is getting an A.

I would urge her to wait until the school is in motion as others have said. Also since she is a BME major she has the opportunity of attending Emory classes while at Tech as well, a completely different environment. She can get the best of both worlds.