@itsv Thank you mentioned in other thread about the study abroad program. Our entire family got very excited about such opportunity. My son is a Chinese American so especially interested in study abroad program in Peking University (PKU), China and National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore which both offer the courses for the BME major which is the chosen major of my son. The reasons for our excitement are as follows:
Both PKU and NUS in Asia have the prestige status like Harvard and Stanford in USA. Having a study experience in either or both will definitely enhance someone’s resume.
It helps us remedy the disappointment that our son didn’t really learn Chinese well although we put him through the Sunday’s Chinese school for 10 years. A semester or two study in China and/or Singapore should substantially improve his Chinese language.
Financially, it can save us about $7.5K per semester.
It provides a new playground for him to acquire more friends who will definitely serve as the important connections in his future career.
And more…
If you can, please help to give us a little more color regarding following questions:
Will the credits owned from the study abroad program be enough to cancel out the equivalent number of credits required for the graduation in GT?
Can a student take two semesters of the study, such as one semester in PKU and another semester in NUS?
If 2 is yes, again, will the credits owned be sufficient to cancel out the required credits in a year stud?
I was worried about the same thing, but when I went, everyone, the school and students pushed that you can and the goal is for people to graduate in 8 semesters. That is different than 4 years, it is largly because people do co-ops or semester long internships (difference is coop is 3 semesters at the same company). My dad was very worried for the same reasons, I am OOS, 50k a year is not shabby, but Georgia Tech releases you from housing for internships, coops and study abroad, basically whenever you’re not going to be there, you don’t pay housing or tuition (study abroad you pay in state rate). I have absolutely no problem with that as coop and internships are basically just moving half a year of your work life in the middle of your college life, as you are paid for it and not paying tuition. That was one of the big factors for me to find out before committing, but I just got all the info, feel satisfied and committed.
@Motheshow You said: I’d say most people who don’t co-op and use summers to intern (so taking classes every fall and spring) graduate in 4-4.5 years on average. And Those who co-op 5-5.5 years."
Is this 4-4.5 years on average with freshmen showing up with ~7-10 AP credits?? Basically starting as almost “sophomores”? If so, is this 4-4.5 years then because the classes are so hard that students stick with 12 credit hours per semester?
@CSinPA I didn’t use any of my AP credit for Pre med reasons, which forced me to take 15-19 hours a semester.
Remember at Tech an engineering degree is around 130 credits. So if a student is of sophomore status( around 30 credits) then they would only need around 12-13 credits a semester to finish in 4 years.
I would say most do the 12-13 credits due to the difficulty of Tech, even then an absurd amount of people I know lost hope/zell.
P.s be careful taking AP credit if it is important to the major, because Georgia Tech Chemistry and Physics for example are much more intensive and cover more material than AP.
@Motheshow Your “p.s.” is a good point. Fortunately the only AP credit for Computer Science major/courses is AP CS so, my son will use all the AP credits that he can! (Chem/Phy/Math/SS/Hum/Engl)
