<p>OK, first of all I am an OOS student for all these universities, so I’ll have to pay OOS tuition for all of them. I’m a US citizen, but not in USA atm.
I do prefer living off-campus, or having a single if I’m living on campus.
I plan to do Engineering. Haven’t decided which one, but maybe electrical. I might even want to do a double major in something completely different (maybe Government and Political Sciences).
I have not received any outside scholarship.
My stats were very good, was a val, but had low SAT’s, so got rejected from all my reaches. what a shame.
The financial aid, I’m being offered is insufficient with around a $25,000 loan.
I preferred CA.
Here are the universities:
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GeorgiaTech
UC, San Diego
UC, Davis,
UC, Irvine,
UC, Santa Barbara
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Purdue University, West Lafayette
PennState, University Park,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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I haven’t received my financial aid award letters from all of these universities, but I’m not very happy with the ones I have received.</p>
<p>My EFC is $948.00</p>
<p>What do you say.
Also after one year, do I establish residency and get to pay in-state tuition in my sophomore year?</p>
<li><p>Which university do you suggest?</p></li>
<li><p>One last thing, how
Also, what do you say if I move back to USA. (after completing my senior year), spend a year in community college, establish residency, give my SATs again and then apply again to really good uni’s.
But thinking about this disheartens me, because a year of mine would be wasted, and I’ll be left a year behind. But if that allows me to go to MIT or an ivy then that would be awesome.</p></li>
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<p>I don’t know very much about engineering programs, but if you want to do bio engineering i know davis and san diego are pretty good for that. And Georgia Tech is supposed to be really good in general for engineering (i think). The rest I’m not sure about @@:</p>
<p>GA Tech is a great school for engineering. Especially if you got in from out-of-state, you’re definitely qualified to handle the work load there (the same can’t be said for many in-staters). So, I’d GA Tech would be more prestigious in the eyes of MIT/an Ivy League school.</p>
<p>Actually, I’ll have to agree with GoldShadow. Don’t go into a college planning to transfer…that just hinders you from having fun while you’re there.</p>
<p>But still, GA Tech is the best pick of those, imo, and the people I know who go there love it.</p>
<p>I don’t know much about GA Tech other than the fact that it’s a kick-a## engineering school. What I have heard is that it’s not much more. UCSD is across-the-board a good school and in San Diego to boot. It’s got some real bright spots in goverment, politics, etc., your other interest. I would say socially it sounds like it would also therefore be a more balanced experience.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine that if you do really well at either UCSD or GA Tech it would much matter which one you were applying to an Ivy from, if you are just talking about engineering. </p>
<p>I don’t think in the end you could go wrong at either. In engineering, GA Tech may have a slight edge. Socially and otherwise, I’d give the edge to UCSD, based on my impressions.</p>
<p>Additionally, if you’re looking for best undergrad engineering, Rose-Hulman is probably your best bet. Don’t place too much stock in rankings (though Rose-Hulman ranks extremly highly).</p>
<p>Doesn’t GeorgiaTech rank better than Rose-Hulman in Engineering?
in the US news ranking it says
Rose-Hulman 4.4
Georgia Tech 4.5</p>
<p>Anyway.
I am planning to live off-campus. Which would be cheaper?
Plus I’ve never experienced a tornado, and the tornado on March 14th in georgia scared me.
I love CA, that was where i was born and where most of my family/friends live. I don’t know anyone in GA.
But I want to put personal things behind and go to a “prestigious institute”
Which one is better recognized?
Because I definitely want to have a graduate degree from an IVY, MIT etc.</p>
<p>First of all, I’m not sure where you got those numbers from (the 2008 ranking has both at 4.5). Secondly, if you’re going to place that much stock in USN rankings, you are sorely misguided in how you’re going to go about picking a school. Choose the one you can see yourself at.</p>
<p>Forget about a “graduate degree from an IVY or MIT”, worry about undergrad first. No matter which school you choose, you will have access to a lot of resources and opportunities. If you take advantage of these, you’ll get into a good grad school. You’re probably going to brush off some of my comments, but you’re being extremely naive when you say you have to have a graduate degree from an ivy or MIT. You will probably come to that realization at some point within the first couple semesters of college.</p>
<p>Again, choose the school you really like; either way, it’ll be “prestigious”. And you probably don’t have to worry about tornadoes unless you live in tornado alley in the midwest.</p>
<p>apples: most colleges don’t allow Freshmen to live off campus. You should see if RH or GT have visits for admitted students. For being a prospective engineer, I’m surprised at this haphazard means of choosing. I saw that you said you applied to 26 schools. What have you been doing to narrow down a list of criteria? Wanting to transfer to an Ivy or MIT is VERY poor reasoning. Choosing one over another based on a 0.1 degree ranking by some magazine-- yeah lots of logic behind that one. </p>
<p>Your remark about the tornado – is … um … curious. About 70% of the American population lives in areas where tornadoes occasionally occur. Should people eschew a CA school because they might be trampled under the next earthquake?</p>
<p>Graduate engineering degrees from Ivies are fine but the most prestigious come from some of the schools you’ve been accepted to undergrad.</p>
<p>Perhaps you should sit down with your GC rather than intake various opinions from this site?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for the advice.
I don’t have a GC, that’s the whole problem. That’ why I applied to so many universiites (not 26, 21)
and i’ve never seen a tornado,let alone face one.
so that’s what scares me.</p>
<p>If your family EFC is that low, how on earth do you expect to pay for your education? Did not one of these universities offer you any aid at all? I think you seriously have to look at community colleges that have coordination agreements with a public university. For example, in Georgia there surely are some community colleges that have agreements with Georgia Tech that allow students to finish two years at the community college and then enroll at Georgia Tech with full credit.</p>
<p>As to in-state residence, that is a whole other problem for you. What is your last state of residence in the USA? If you’ve never lived in the USA, what is the last state of residence of your US Citizen parent(s)? You are eligible to register to vote in that state, and some states may also consider you a resident for tuition purposes. Do you/your parents own any property in the US? That may also qualify you for in-state tuition purposes. It is not always easy to establish state residence for tuition. You need to investigate the regulations at each of the public universities that have admitted you. Your problem is a very uncommon one, but most large public universities will have encountered it before. Ask the financial aid and admissions offices about the regulations or look for them on the website.</p>
<p>As for tornadoes, they are just a reality of life in the midwest. Sort of the way hurricanes are for Florida, earthquakes are for California, and politicians are for those of us who live near DC. You will probably be just fine wherever you end up.</p>