@judgegregg is Georgia Tech the public where your sonreceived a Stamps Scholarship? If so, think very very carefully about the added perks associated with the Stamps. It’s an amazing award…amazing.
Ok…so I’ll answer the question here so folks know. GA Tech is not where your son got the Stamps. Regardless…it’s an amazing award. Highly competitive…and he will certainly meet lots of wonderfully brilliant students wherever that Stamps was received.
How sure is your S about BME? It wouldn’t make sense for you to pick school if he might change his major. What does he want to do with a BME degree? From what I know, most kids go to medical schools with BME major. But you wouldn’t want to go to any of those three schools for premed.
Best of luck!
There are no marginal students at Caltech.
to keep things interesting, my son got into Duke, just announced today
The latest US NEWS Engineering Rankings
======================MIT, CalTech, GATech
Engineering Prog. Rankings: 1, 4, 4
Biomedical Engineering…: 2, /, 3
Computer Engineering…: 2, /, 5
Chemical Engineering…: 1, 5, 2
Electrical Engineering…: 1, 6, 4
Civil Engineering…: 7, /, 2
Aerospace Engineering… : 1, 2, 3
Industrial Engineering…: /, /, 1
Materials Engineering…: 1, 9, 3
Mechanical Engineering…: 1, 6, 2
Environmental Engineering… :4,19, 6
Do you have any statistics to say Georgia Tech students get recruited “by far” more than JHU students at the elite Investment Banks, tech companies, and management consulting companies? I’m ex bain from JHU, and can tell you point blank all three “elite” consulting firms (McKinsey, Bain, BCG) hire more than their fair share of JHU students. I’d also see what division of Goldman is hiring. Hackathon usually constitutes their IT divisions - far from elite like their IB division which hires substantially from JHU (i’m happy to name JHU alumni that are in Goldman’s IB group from recent classes).
Lastly in tech, Google and Facebook and other elite firms also hire substantially from JHU. I work for one of the former now. It’s unclear proportionally that they hire more from from Georgia Tech - I certainly don’t see it at HQ.
I’d choose JHU, bias and all. When I graduated, I had my pick of grad schools with a full ride for Ph.D programs and my choice of jobs at graduation as well. Ended up getting a Master’s for free from MIT, but had McKinsey, Bain, and Google offers at graduation as well. When I was choosing schools for undergrad, I was also offered a scholarship at Georgia Tech (Stamps) along with UMD (Banneker-Key) and UVa (Jefferson), but ended up paying a bit more at JHU and don’t regret it in the least.
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https://www.scribd.com/document/346963694/Hiringsolved-Ideal-Hire-Report-in-Tech
JHU not even on the list.
@greymeer, I’m talking about amongst the elite tech firms (Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Netflix, etc). i can tell you Arizona State is not actively recruited at despite being top 10 on the list.
@Greymeer and neither are Princeton or Caltech or Columbia which are powerhouses here in the valley so what does that say about your “list” exactly?
You work at 4 companies?
Also I wouldn’t brag about elite consulting firms recruiting heavily at JHU. Management consulting firms are scam artists. So it’s like saying there is a high incidence of fast talkers and low ethics at JHU.
I have nothing against JHU but your pomposity set me off.
Where did I say I work for 4 companies? Whether you think Management Consulting firms bring value to the table is your prerogative not a fact
@stevensPR the list makes sense it says “Volume” of hires so large schools will end up equaling out. eg. NC State was like #10. the most interesting part of that list assuming it is remotely accurate is it appears large state flagships clearly prepare people for the top jobs and they don’t need to go to HYPM to get them.
Also BME is notorious as a pre-med major. So it’s not surprising they aren’t really becoming software engineers.
In 2018 about 39k students earned a 34-36 on the ACT. I am
@anon145 Agreed on volume part, but there are inherent flaws with the list. They never identify what the top 25 silicon valley companies are. Secondly, there’s no way a Princeton or JHU grad would be less desirable than an ASU or NC State grad (vis a vis same grades - and not trying to be elitist here given quality of education). Lastly, there is a huge difference between what they deem could be #1 (Google where SWEs are making 300k a year with stock) vs #25 (say a Cisco where they are making $120k)
While the admit rate was 37% for GT instate, I am baffled as to why anyone would think that is a problem. GT used to have a much higher rate of acceptance than this and the school is still the same school just as many schools admit rates have decline substantially. Did these schools suddenly hire different professors and develop new curriculum? No. And by the way GT has always been a self selecting university as it is highly quantitative and rigorous. It was an insulting remark for the students of Georgia.