Hi. I am international student and I got into Georgia tech for industrial engineering. Georgia tech is rank 4(tie with caltech) for overall engineering and rank 1 for industrial engineering. I did not receive any financial aid from Gatech so I’ll end up paying 52,000 a year. I was also accepted to national liberal arts colleges such as Colgate,oberlin and bates. These colleges give me 50k a year, so I’ll end up paying 24,000 per year. Let’s say money is a factor but I might be able to pay for Georgia tech. And Georgia tech has co-op programs which means I’ll be earning money as full time intern since sophomore year till I graduate. Most people make 4,000 per month from co-op which usually last for 3-4 semesters. Note that I have to study economics at liberal arts college because engineering is not offered there.
I’m grateful for getting into these colleges because their average sat scores are 2200 with 20% admit rate . I only have1900 sat score.
-thanks you so much for answering me and giving me your point of view.
What do you want to do for the rest of your life for work? What do you enjoy the most? First, select a major/profession, that you want to eagerly go to because you love what you do. Otherwise, every morning you are going to get up and dread going to work.
If in fact it is engineering, that does not necessarily mean you cannot attend one of the liberal arts colleges you referenced. They all participate in 3-2 dual degree engineering programs with leading engineering schools (Columbia RPI, Caltech, Washington University and maybe Dartmouth). Under this program you attend the liberal arts college for 3 years then go to the engineering school (need to maintain at least 3.3 GPA in math/science courses as well as overall GPA). You get two degrees, one from the liberal arts college and one from engineering school. It is an extra year, but you have the opportunity to improve your English considerably and take other courses in economics etc…
If your main goal is to be an industrial engineer, and you can afford the tuition, then go to GTech.
But don’t count on being able to do co-ops and earning money from sophomore year until you graduate. That’s not at all realistic. More likely you’ll do co-op one semester in the four years, and maybe the summers (though co-ops usually are longer – you can find paid summer internships as an engineer, but remember that they’re competitive and by no means guaranteed). In other words, you might be able to make some money while studying at GTech, but don’t count on it being able to pay for your tuition.
If you’re not sure exactly what you want to do, go to Colgate (or one of the other LACs). You’ll get a top notch undergraduate education and can switch majors as well as do engineering at RPI or Columbia with an additional year if you decide that’s what you want.