@V5899 Congrats on GaTEch. Georgia Tech is a high spirited school, with a lot of students watching football games, a fantastic marching band, with lots of great clubs, and one of the best Recreation programs for mountain biking, kayaking and rock climbing , if those are of interest to your son. Academics are very strong in mechanical engineering. And the area is beautiful and easy to fly from NJ to the International Airport and get a MARTA train right to campus. Students can live in Atlanta without a car and still have fun!
with Virginia Tech he will fly to Roanoke and bus over, unless he plans to bring a car, which he will
need in that part of Virginia. Are there direct flights to Roanoke from New Jersey?
@Gudmom GaTech is one of the few public schools in the nation, that offers plenty of on campus housing for all undergraduates, if they want it. Many undergraduates move to fraternity houses or off campus rentals so any undergraduate at GaTech who wants to stay on campus can do so. . The area is just fine, too, few crime issues around Tech Square. A little crime in the Home Park neighborhood north of campus, but my son goes to eat pizza in Home Park, and I went with him, and its nicer than Cambridge Massachusetts, Central Square, where I lived for college.
My son is a junior at GaTech and has lived on campus for three years, has guaranteed on campus housing this summer for his summer research program , and has guaranteed on campus housing next year. I am pretty sure Clemson does not offer four years of on campus housing. VT is very rural so may be a don’t care.
GaTech off campus housing is located near Tech Square, which is safe and has a Publix for food shopping, and other areas north of campus , and GaTech police are very proactive in the areas where students live. GaTech is safer than Case Western Reserve, in Cleveland Ohio, where I sent another child to school.