UT Austin vs Georgia Tech vs UIUC

JamesMadison
Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:05:19 +0000

UCLA may be the better school in your particular specialty, that doesn’t make it better overall.



Maybe yes, maybe no. Its all speculation, and I don’t even understand what “better” means. What is the definition of the term? I guarantee that both UCLA and GT graduates will get great jobs and academic opportunities. Is McDonalds better or Burger King? Is Coke better than Pepsi? Some might prefer this or that, but in the end it doesn’t really matter.

I just wish the GT grads would think about that for a while, instead of saying “virtually everyone would rank GT > UCLA except for JamesMadison’s group of friends”, and all this nonsense that I read every day here.

Having had the choice of attending either of these two schools recently, I did a lot of googling. I even posted this thread about it:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/1097194-ucla-vs-gatech.html

I got no really conclusive answer, except obviously the GT affiliates came to toot their own horn as usual.