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Is Georgia Tech a good school?
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Date: February 4th, 2026 1:03 AM Author: self-absorbed aromatic pit Nephew has the following options for Electrical Engineering:
UCLA Georgia Tech UT Austin University of Urbana Champaign
Where should he go?
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Date: February 4th, 2026 1:33 AM Author: curious school cafeteria Georgia Tech would be my pick if he's a serious engineering student (assume this is undergrad). Reputationally Georgia Tech and Illinois are pretty close, and great at that. UT and UCLA are also very close to each other and considered slightly less prestigious than the other two.
Which location/campus he likes best and cost are factors, of course. Illinois is in the middle of a corn field, Tech is in the middle of Atlanta, UT is in a great college town and UCLA is the LA experience.
Georgia Tech is unusually entrepreneurial. Overall I think it has has the strongest reputation of the four. It's also smaller and more focused on engineering across the university than any of the others. Another + for Tech is that Georgia has been a steadfast and consistent investor in STEM college education and lacks some of the budget problems of Illinois and California.
I've heard from people who work at UCLA that it can, like all the UC schools, be painfully bureaucratic. I have had some personal dealings with Georgia Tech folks and had friends on the faculty there. They act more like a private university than a public. That's a good thing.
There are no bad choices here, but IMO Tech stands out for the above reasons. |
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Date: February 4th, 2026 2:51 PM Author: self-absorbed aromatic pit But does it give an edge up for recruiting, grad school apps? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49646655) |
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Date: February 5th, 2026 8:08 PM Author: curious school cafeteria All of these are very good, highly regarded schools. At this level the individual student characteristics will likely outweigh any institutional differences. However, I feel like Tech is just a hair better. YMMV. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49649663) |
Date: February 4th, 2026 1:12 AM Author: Obsidian Station Hairy Legs they’re comparable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49645541) |
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Date: February 4th, 2026 1:48 AM Author: pearl prole nursing home Damn fine school. Damn fine.
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Date: February 4th, 2026 3:04 PM Author: ebony comical locale quadroon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49646691) |
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Date: February 4th, 2026 3:48 AM Author: Blathering irradiated gay wizard Georgia Tech and UIUC have the best engineering reputations among those. Can’t go wrong. I’d prefer UIUC for B1G collge town experience. Will be as fun as engineering school could be.
UCLA has the most lay preftige. Admissions there have gotten insane, so congrats to him. |
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Date: February 5th, 2026 9:24 PM Author: Spectacular turdskin heaven i didn't finish high school, but cr. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49649890) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 9:29 AM Author: Garnet free-loading dopamine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49650544) |
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Date: February 4th, 2026 3:58 AM Author: medicated roommate state GaTech women make the fempoasters of zozo seem hawt. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49645629) |
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Date: February 4th, 2026 8:18 AM Author: Stirring Jet Center For men of certain preferences, Atlanta offers a rich buffet of alternatives. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49645695) |
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Date: February 4th, 2026 8:25 AM Author: Chrome shrine A 'bucket' of fried options, if you will. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49645697) |
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Date: February 4th, 2026 8:27 AM Author: Walnut shaky roast beef queen of the night True. However there are tens of thousands of hot dumb chicks at Georgia State U just a couple blocks away (and I think they sometimes have joint classes with GSU kids).
All of the cute young GSU paralegals at my office tell me that they partied at Tech in college |
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Date: February 5th, 2026 9:28 PM Author: Iridescent Heady Mad-dog Skullcap Stead Isn't GSU mostly black now? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49649898) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 9:23 AM Author: Walnut shaky roast beef queen of the night no (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49650524) |
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Date: February 13th, 2026 4:37 PM Author: very tactful becky university black and immigrants. has been like that for decades. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49668839) |
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Date: February 5th, 2026 9:28 PM Author: Chrome shrine "All of the cute young GSU paralegals at my office tell me that they partied at Tech in college."
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Date: February 6th, 2026 9:24 AM Author: Walnut shaky roast beef queen of the night i was on campus at GT last weekend for the UNC basketball game HTH (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49650527) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 9:39 AM Author: amber international law enforcement agency theater lol, why would they go party at an engineering school? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49650561) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 10:09 AM Author: Walnut shaky roast beef queen of the night because Tech has a real campus, and real frat parties etc, and some dudes there are not complete dorks. GA State is like urban highrise buildings, they have nothing to do. And its nearby, like GSU might have dorms across the street from Tech campus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49650643) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 10:22 AM Author: amber international law enforcement agency theater So GA State is basically a commuter school for kids who live at home or in apartments off campus? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49650666) |
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Date: February 13th, 2026 4:37 PM Author: very tactful becky university yes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49668840) |
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Date: February 4th, 2026 3:02 PM Author: Opaque Trip Reading Party National texas all the way, best blend of quality cost and life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49646680) |
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Date: February 4th, 2026 3:14 PM Author: Cream Knife I have several family members who graduated from GT and they all have great jobs and are smart. As mentioned above there are GSU chicks all around too. They wear jean shorts and smell like bum piss but have hot little asses and ovulate constantly. Despite being nerdy engineering types, they have good frat parties and stuff. I visited the chapter of my fraternity there in college and they were completely insane and had lots of fun, would build unbelievably elaborate structures for silly things like beer funnels and water slides and secret rooms and stuff too, just a different breed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49646711) |
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Date: February 5th, 2026 8:18 PM Author: red casino if he's a true nerd. tech. otherwise whichever of the other 3 are in-state. they're all good enough so he should either be indexing for cost.
if he's a jock/engineer then texas |
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Date: February 5th, 2026 9:20 PM Author: pungent police squad corner No (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49649883) |
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Date: February 5th, 2026 9:37 PM Author: self-absorbed aromatic pit What's the most prestigious engineering school that also has hot women that will fuck my nephew? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49649924) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 9:28 AM Author: Opaque Trip Reading Party National UTTT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49650542) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 9:30 AM Author: Garnet free-loading dopamine Bad news brother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49650546) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 9:29 AM Author: Adventurous rusted preventive strike Doodikoff would root for its team if it started doing well (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49650545) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 9:32 AM Author: Walnut shaky roast beef queen of the night I attend 1-2 GT football games a year and a basketball game or two (their arena is small but nice), usually don't root for them though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49650553) |
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Date: February 13th, 2026 12:48 AM Author: self-absorbed aromatic pit How much better is MIT/ Stanford than Georgia Tech? Worth it to pay full sticker for MIT/ Stanford over Georgia Tech? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49667643) |
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Date: February 13th, 2026 4:35 PM Author: self-absorbed aromatic pit ?? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49668835) |
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Date: February 13th, 2026 5:08 PM Author: flickering cruise ship depressive Probably not unless money is no object. IMHO, it is not worth paying sticker at an Ivy over flagship state for free/nearly free unless you are gunning for top-tier finance or consulting. Or unless your parents are so fucking loaded that $400k is nothing to them (which is true for a high percentage of students admitted to Ivy-tier schools). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49668896) |
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Date: February 13th, 2026 5:33 PM Author: curious school cafeteria Caveat: I only went to MIT. I do, however, know faculty and students from Stanford and Georgia Tech. I've worked pretty closely with Stanford faculty and students, though mostly grad students and post docs.
You probably won't be a better engineer or whatever for having gone to MIT/Stanford over Tech. They have higher lay prestige and probably better networking opportunities though. MIT/Stanford have lots of money, so you need to compare "sticker" costs net of financial aid, but Stanford/MIT are not worth incurring crippling debt vs. Tech, IMO.
Note that Stanford is considerably more of a real university than either Tech or MIT. STEM folks at Stanford are in a minority and probably work harder than the non-STEM students. They are a cultural island. MIT and Tech are more nerd central with a more widely shared common STEM culture.
MIT probably has a higher concentration of math genius types, and is more Asian demographically than either of the other two. Tech's student population is also more regional than the other two.
Stanford's location creates unique internship and networking opportunities.
Palo Alto is nice but pretty diffusely suburban (I used to live less than a mile from the Stanford campus). Tech is in urban Atlanta, for better or worse. Apologies to Doodicoff, but I am not an Atlanta fan. The Boston/Cambridge area is great except for the winters. MIT housing seems bleak. Don't know about the other two.
Stereotypically: Do you want to be a tech entrepreneur? Go to Stanford. Do you want to be a hard core engineer? Go to Tech. Do you want to be an academic/researcher? Go to MIT. Do you want to have lots of sex without much effort in college? Don't go to MIT. Do you want more of a "traditional" college experience? Go to Stanford, though Tech has real football.
I went to MIT because I was so ignorant I didn't know what I was doing. I hated it at first, but soon realized that resistance was futile and was after being absorbed by the Borg collective I enjoyed it and didn't want to leave. If not for the draft I might still be there. Of course everything has changed. I try to keep up, but you should listen more to younger people with recent direct experience. However, it doesn't look like you're getting a lot of responses, so I will be the blind man advising. |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 2:58 PM Author: :;;::::;;;:;:;:;;;:;;;;:::: Doodikoff did you go to GT? Or was it UGA? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49751602) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 3:00 PM Author: Darnell he cheers for bama which would make him the worst bulldog ever (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49751607) |
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Date: February 13th, 2026 4:35 PM Author: self-absorbed aromatic pit ?? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830807&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49668834) |