I’m from Terre Haute and attended Purdue(BSEE 87) and was accepted to Georgia Tech as well. Purdue has an amazing global reputation and graduates more female engineers than any other school so you would always benefit from that network. I don’t find TH depressing but I did find midtown Atlanta too urban. Purdue does weed out its students, but I like a challenge. I distinctly remember day one in a huge lecture hall, prob in the Me Building, the lector told us to look to the left, look to the right, only one of you will be here next year. I live in Chicago now and have a son interested in Enginerring. I’m pushing Purdue hard even though UIUC would be less money. Boiler Up!