DC accepted into CS program at Georgia Tech, UMich, UIUC, UMD.
Finalist for Stamps Scholarship at Georgia Tech.
If money is not a concern, which school has the best CS program?
Similar dilemma here. D. got accpeted into GT (EA) with the provost scholarship (instate tuition). Her intended major is BME. University of Washington decision (in state - we’re from Seattle) will be out in March. We are definitely not qualified for any financial aid, and UW is not known for giving out much merit scholarship. At this point, if she gets into UW, the cost would basically be the same as GT. She’s torn, we’re torn. Which one would make more sense for a BME major.
@Adalls18, GT ranks #4 in US News ranking:
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate-biological-biomedical
You can’t go wrong with GT for any engineering program. If she already got in, congrats! If distance is not a concern, I’d go with GT. Wish her the best!
GT is the school to go based on your list. Carnegie Mellon and UC Berkeley would have been better choices.
@Bsstk1 those are all top CS programs, so unless one has a specific specialty that your DC is interested in it may come down to cost or fit/culture/location. Obviously you can’t pass up Stamps if you get it.
@Adalls18 it would be hard to pass up the Provost scholarship to GT if she thinks the culture/fit are right. Has she visited GT? How does she feel about the distance?
@racereer thanks! DC is interested in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. CS is not my field so I can’t help at all. I will ask DC to dig deeper in these fields at these schools and find the professors and the work she is interested in pursuing. Any feedback is appreciated!
Does anyone here know what to expect for interviews and group discussions on the Scholar’s Weekend at Georgia Tech? DC is a finalist and is guaranteed to get either one of the two scholarships: Stamps presidential (free ride) or Gold’s scholarship (in-state tuition). We are out of state for Georgia Tech!
We’re visiting GT in April. UW decision woukd have come in by then. Living far from family is what’s giving her a little bit of pose even though GT is her dream school.
@Adalls18 I think she will like it and I know one who did Ph.D in AI at GT and he has nothing but good to say about the program. Did she consider Carnegie Mellon and UC Berkeley which are highly ranked for AI?
@ChemEboyNY She will doing BME
If passed, GA’s Senate Bill 282 would require GT’s EA admitted students to be 90% in-state. Someone brought up this bill before. Now the bill has been formally introduced.
@gRw110 yeah we had some detailed discussion about this. It seems kind of stupid to me in that it only effects EA. Back in post #570 I detailed a way they could still end up with the exact same class even with the 90/10 EA rule.
One thing I did find odd about the article, that I don’t think is true, was the author claimed that during EA they don’t do a holistic review but just stats based. Has anyone heard that before?
I don’t have an opinion either way. I don’t live there. That said, compare GT’s in-state/OOS ratio to UVA, UNC, UT, etc. They enroll a high percentage of OOS kids.
I see why in-state parents are upset. However, the effort is a little misguided. I would be asking why higher ed didn’t keep up with Georgia’s population growth. Look at UT Dallas. Ten years ago it was a commuter school. Now it’s a STEM destination school
I believe they’ve tried to improve UGAs STEM offerings. I think UGA recently got ABET accreditation for more disciplines.
Still not sure why EA was targeted. Kids and parents will just adapt and apply EA.
I also haven’t heard that GT looked at stats only for EA.
@racereer Your post #570 offers a brilliant solution if the GA Senate Bill 282 does become the law of the peach state.
In recent years, we in-state students have been told by our high school GC that GT and UGA only care about our 4-year high school GPA and SAT/ACT test scores. I didn’t pay much attention to GT or UGA, but I know all students from my school that have been accepted by GT have near perfect GPA but not necessarily the rigorous course load. Maybe others can confirm or correct what I have said.
For GT, I think it is less some higher education gap for GA students and more just shear numbers. For the past 3 years the number of in state applications has held at 6.6K while the OOS number this year is over 34K. So there is 5X more OOS applicants and most all of them are top students.
Are there any RD folks on here or is there another thread??
I got deferred in EA, so I count as an RD folk.
I applied for RD and waiting for the decision on 3/14.
Does anyone know if the pay now button hack works for RD applicants?
What is the “Pay now hack?”