Engineering: Carnegie Mellon or Georgia Tech?

hadsed
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:50:19 +0000

Also, if I’m understanding some of these charts and tables correctly, these are all self-reported salaries. You can’t really make such big claims with data like that, you gotta have more concrete basis for your argument.

@G.P. Burdell: I was actually referring to some of the kids at my school. I know it’s impossible to say on a case-by-case basis for everyone, but some high caliber students had been rejected, including the couple BC calc, international science fair, 2000+ SAT 3.7’ers. This made no sense to me really, and even kids who had graduated last year were surprised to see so many people with great stats get rejected. It was especially surprising to see the students who had a 3.9 or 4.0 who did absolutely nothing, maybe take a joke AP class or two like psychology or world history, with 1700 SAT etc.

I guess I’m just ranting here, I just wanna know if this is actually part of something significant, possibly the school trying to look ahead a bit in response to the soon-to-be budget cuts, or something of the sort.