UT Austin vs Georgia Tech vs UIUC

cosmicfish
Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:26:47 +0000

Since UIUC and GT are considered academically almost identical,

Wait a minute, you are decrying the academic consideration given to GT while simultaneously using that consideration to condemn me? If you consider opinions of GT to be invalid, why are opinions of UIUC even relevant?



bolstering the status of a large public engineering university like GT reflects better on your college too (vs. the private ones like Stanford, MIT, etc). You have a personal incentive too.

Well, I think Stanford and MIT are the two best engineering schools, so does that admission mean I am self-destructive? There are lots of “large public engineering universities” and some are great, some aren’t… just like small private engineering universities, or any other arbitrary category you want to name. If I wanted to reflect better on my university I would hardly start by exhorting other schools.

BTW, my first choice program was Northwestern - a private, and good but not elite in engineering. I turned them down when I found out that my professor of interest was not taking new students - the remaining professors (and their plans for me) held no interest.

Also, aren’t UT and UCLA also large public universities with strong engineering programs?