Dream school: Georgia tech

Coloradomama
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:53:32 +0000

@hokuhoku2018. Georgia Tech is also ranked 8 in the country for CS, Purdue is about 20. But aerospace at GaTech is ranked very highly along with Purdue at 4 and 6 respectively. See US News. GaTech is consistently one of
the top aerospace programs in the world!!

https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/aerospace-rankings

. Purdue is very similar to GaTech overall, a very well ranked engineering focused public school,and about the same level of academics. Similar problems with changing majors, and registration, and similar size engineering college.
Purdue does have a much larger overall student body with agriculture, arts and sciences etc.

I think UIUC is also very similar, higher ranked in EECS , and a bit bigger, but most students
with top scores and grades can get into all three. This not the case with most of your other choices there, except Wisconsin, that one will accept some students with lower test scores.

U of Michigan costs significantly more than either GaTech or Purdue OOS, and its significantly harder to get into, with most kids getting deferred and rejected who will easily get into Purdue or even GaTech. Michigan is
extremely tough for out of state admissions and very popular with students from the northeast.

MIT is ridiculous for admissions today, about 7%, or less get in, and even Math Olympiads get rejected this year. MIT does a much better job at gender balance, if you are a girl, that demographic has a higher chance at admissions for now. MIT accepts about 16 % first generation college students, if you fall into that demographic, MIT could be a much better bet than their average admissions numbers suggest.

By contrast, GaTech is hovering about 18% OOS admissions, with 25% overall, numbers for now.
Purdue, is about 40-60% admit rate, depending on if you live in Indiana. UIUC, about the same as Purdue.

Purdue and UIUC will weed out more weak students, with freshman math, than GaTech or MIT needs to.