<p>so i hear that since gt will have a budget cut that could be up to 600m in the worst possible situation. how is that going to affect the student interms of both academics and student life beside the cost of school going up? only thing i could think of is maybe jacking up the football game price but whatelse is there? </p>
<p>also, im oos and got admitted but my parents, who hold the money, are not sure whether i shud go to gt. although i strongly think that they want to keep me close to home so that they could continue their more than 18 years of control over me, they say that i wont be able to keep my gpa if i go to tech as i (and my rents wish as well) intend to go to grad school. im aware that tech is not an easy school to maintain my gpa but is it that rigorous that if im seeking to go to top grad schools, id be better off by going to private schools would be bit easier to maintain gpa?? (im not saying that all the private schools are easy to maintian gpa.. but i do know that they would care more bout my gpa than a public schools would do)</p>
<p>please share you opinion. and if u r especially a native korean going to tech ur opininon on academic rigor would be very valuable to me</p>
<p>The following is pure my analysis from reading from ajc and other newspaper Take as it is.</p>
<p>1) GT does NOT have to cut $600 millions dollars. That figure is for ALL USG colleges (including UGA, etc). Also, according to ajc, the worst scenario is highly unlikely. It is more like to be $350 millions to $400 millions all totally for USG. I am not sure Ga Tech’s portion (probably $80 millions, that’s my guess). The final result is will be in April. </p>
<p>2) Do private schools give higher grade than Tech? It depends on colleges and degree. Small engineering schools like WPI, RPI are just likely give poor grade. Also, GaTech average GPA is around 3.0, raise from 2.7 in the 90s. It is much easier to get good grade nowadays at Tech than it used to be. Of course, small liberal art colleges give a lot of As.</p>
<p>3) Ga Tech has large number of Asians (25%+) and/or Koreans student and professors (due to large Korean population in North Fulton, Gwinnett county). It is fairly well known in Asian countries due to its Engineering reputation. Sometimes, it refers as together with CalTech and MIT as three top engineering specific schools.</p>
<p>4) Do you need financial aids? If I were you, I would compare all all packages and schools before making decision.</p>
<p>I don’t think it will be $80 million for Tech. The last I heard, with the $300 million additional cuts, Tech’s share was $38 million. Extrapolate that and you get $76 million worst case, more likely close to $40-$50 million.</p>
<p>How does that affect students? Well, Tech has already shown that at it’s share of $300 million, there is no impact to students (furlough days for employees, etc). Above that, students will start to be impacted. At first it will be decreased staff (maintenance, support staff), then faculty. Student activities are mostly funded with the Student Activity Fee, so those activities will be safe from cuts - students would only see the difference in less maintained facilities, higher class sizes, and increased fees.</p>
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<p>Perhaps you should consider self-funding your education. You are an adult, now.</p>
<p>Jim, be careful about the small liberal arts private school thing. The top liberal arts colleges are known for being tough, where it is really difficult to get an A. Take Swarthmore for example. It supposedly has a rigor comparable to that of schools like Tech, primarily because of workload along with very harsh grading practices. Also, ikkim, the new 3.0 average isn’t bad compared for a public school, especially for one with top engineering programs. Typically publics have lower GPAs due to almost complete lack of inflation (I guess) and perhaps the mere number of students. I would think it would be more difficult to keep the GPA of a class of 3500 high than it would be 1000-1500 (top private school graduating class sizes). Also, teaching styles are normally very student oriented at private schools. However, don’t take that as “you don’t have to work”. Graduating averages at most southern top privates (like my school, Emory along with Duke, and Vandy) are like 3.2-3.3_ which says a lot given the number of humanities/social science majors. Many of those departments are even tough, and sciences probably compensate for departments with higher average GPAs, so it’s no walk in the park. I imagine the same could be said at most top privates for engineering also (Emory doesn’t have it so I can’t say first hand or by observation). It’s going to be hard. Top schools outside of the Ivy league seem to have much less inflation than expected.</p>
<p>thanks for ur replies!</p>
<p>to jim: no we dont need it… although it would ve been nice to have some financial aid, im not entitled to it (im actually international as well) i have gotten some 10k scholarships but the schools that gave me money arent the one i necessarily want to go (maybe trinity university, if i can convince my rents once again lol). i heard i could ask for scholarship in like 2nd yr for some schools if i have good academic performance so im kinda counting on that lol. </p>
<p>to gp: well one thing i didnt tell is that im international student with no working visa. of course im very aware that im 18 but i dont think anybody can do that like walking the park. i dont wanna go to college in my native country even if that was a cheaper solution because it would be destroy my life if you know how korea is doing right now. and i love colorado college (one that my rents want me to go); i just dont like how close it is to my home and im not sure if doing 3+2 or 4+2 engineering at LACs would be worth it because i heard it’s freakin tough (well but if you know more about these programs, i d appreciate ur inputs).</p>
<p>to bernie: yeah i know. im going to try hard as possible (or hopefully my motivation would be burning on high octane 5 month from now on) but as you stated, i do think id need a student-oriented care because i messed up alot because i didnt understand the high school system, didnt and still dont really have excellent studying skills(more of my fault but i do think teachers shud be helping me on this in a way if i ask to), and i dont see why not it could happen again in college so id need a bit of safety measure. plus, i do think that all colleges’ purpose shud be really caring the students… not just letting them on a field full of vultures and dont even give **** about it. and, like other typical people, im going to aim really high on grad school (stanford… lol i can dream high)
lol and ive applied to emory but… not gonna get in haha (i was even suprised how i made it into tech) but if i do, i know id go to emory for sure.</p>