<p>Son is considering attending Georgia Tech. Please share your positive and negative experiences. </p>
<p>He has been accepted to the Computational Media program but is also interested in exploring other fields such as Chemistry, Computer Engineering, and Cyber Warfare.</p>
<p>Any info on average financial aid packages - merit based aid would also be valuable info.</p>
<p>Positive Experience: Great school but tons and tons of work for engineering/CS. Got a B.S. in Computer Engineering and graduated in 2003. To this day, every once in a while, I have a terrifying dream that I'm back in school taking a test for a class i didn't attend that I need to graduate. All that studying messed with my sub-consciousness.</p>
<p>Negative Experience: Too few (attractive) girls. Weed out classes. Some teachers are more interested in research than students (this wasn't always the case but it happens from time to time). Didn't realize that I would be graded against other students in my classes vs a standard grading scale. For example, in one class I got a 23 on an exam, which turned out to be a B, because only 7 kids out of like 35 got above 25 (think 33 was the highest score). So the professor decided that the B range for that exam was from 20-25. Also, most final exams were NOT cumulative. Most of my professors made the final exam up entirely of previous test questions that rocked the class. So while you still had to study everything that was covered by the course, 9x out of 10 the easy/semi easy stuff that you would be relying on during the final exam, to counter the ridiculous stuff, wouldn't appear. So the end result was that you studied like crazy for the exam, every topic covered, all the problem sets, and you'd get to the exam, look at the problems and think w.t.f ? GT is all about making you think outside the box.</p>
<p>I had HOPE scholarship the whole time and it pretty much covered everything except for my books. I think you got $150 for books but that didn't buy much. Didn't bother applying for other scholarships since, at the time, this covered my tuition.</p>
<p>You might want to try posting in the GT forum too:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/georgia-institute-technology/%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/georgia-institute-technology/</a></p>
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Negative Experience: Too few (attractive) girls.
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<p>Haha yea that's how my school is too. On the bright side it is encouragement to go out and meet new people outside of your school setting.</p>
<p>Top notch engineering and CS. If he decides he doesn't want to do stuff like that and go in another direction he's outta luck as far as notoriety since GT isn't like MIT with top notch business and social sciences along with engineering. Definitely weeder classes, I got this answer from a student when I toured there</p>
<p>They have a really good up and coming business school that's what I plan on if I have an epic failure in engineering.</p>
<p>"too few girls" is always the concern at engineering schools.</p>
<p>These are great comments - does anyone have any examples of some of the tests for Calc., chemistry, physics? My son is taking AP in all of these and it would be interesting to compare/contrast content and difficulty.</p>
<p>Also, any suggestions on a great dorm? From reviews it sounds as if the West side is nicer/quieter but it would be great to get specifics.</p>
<p>I dont go to GT, but a lot of people of friends from HS went there and I have not heard anything negative about it. They say its a great school, and it has a very good national reputation. </p>
<p>Most financial aid goes to Georgia residents. IF you are not a georiga resident, I have heard that it is very difficuilt to get aid because its extremely competative for those few funds.</p>