<p>Typo on Georgia Tech in my first post......sorry:)</p>
<p>I am a junior at a public school in Tennessee. I would like to know my chances of getting into Georgia Tech for business and Virginia Tech for business.</p>
<p>Stats:
GPA: 3.95 unweighted
Top 10% of my class.
ACT: 26 (hopefully will improve)</p>
<p>About 15 Honors classes and will have 4 APs by the end of my Senior year (my school only offers 6)-A's in all AP</p>
<p>ECs:
-Volunteering at Hospital in the summer
-Work part time at Chick-fil-A
-Attended National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine at UCLA
-Will Attend TN Govenor's School for International Studies and willl take class in Macroeconomics.
-International DECA Competitor for creating a business
-Lettered in Band, Bowling, Football
-Writer for School Paper
-Member of Mock Trial for 3 yrs.
-Battle of Bands charity event for INTERACT
-Member of NHS
-Member of BETA
-Member of DECA and FBLA
-Received the Billy Mitchell Award in Civil Air Patrol and was the Cadet Commander of my local squadron. (equivalent of an Eagle Scout)</p>
<p>I am sure there are others...these are the ones I can remember.</p>
<p>Please be honest and tell me what I need to work on...I know the ACT needs improvements, but anything else would help.</p>
<p>VT has a beautiful campus and is located in a wonderful, clean area. I have never been to GT, but VT’s atmosphere is very nice. Plus, the food there is amazing and the people are generally helpful and courteous.</p>
<p>But GT is a much higher ranked school that will lead to more career opportunities. You’re comparing basically the #27 school to the #4 school.</p>
<p>Companies will travel internationally to hire from a Top 5 school, they’re travel across country to hire from a Top 15 school. If your goal is to live in Virginia or a surrounding area for the rest of your life, VT is a fine. If you want more mobility and access to non-engineering fields, more engineering firms, and better academic programs, GT is a better option. </p>
<p>If you like VT’s location/atmosphere but want a GT-quality school, there are other options.</p>
<p>I’m curious, what’s GT ranked #4 in? I didn’t know that they were that good, but I agree that VT lags academically behind GT. I’ve never seen GT’s campus, but Blacksburg is gorgeous.</p>
<p>It ranks Top 10 in many specialties, including #1 in Industrial Engineering (for 17 straight years). It’s also an overall Top 10 public university.</p>
<p>I know GT is great for engineering and is a solid public university, but is VT really that bad? I had no idea; do their students actually get good jobs after graduation? </p>
<p>Is U.S. News a truly credible source? It says that Yale is 40th in engineering, but I’ve heard better things than that implies.</p>
<p>I know someone in the business program at VT, and this scares me. Please get back to me on this one!</p>
<p>VT isn’t a horrible school. It’s a well respected university and many people would kill to attend there. It’s just not at the same level at Georgia Tech. In turn, Georgia Tech isn’t at the same level as MIT or Harvard.</p>
<p>Yale is 40th in engineering because it’s not really an engineering school. Their department is small, doesn’t pull in many grants. Most of the Ivy’s are weak in engineering. It doesn’t make them bad schools, but a degree from Georgia Tech or UC Berkeley goes farther in engineering circles than Yale (though a Yale degree goes farther in non-engineering circles).</p>
<p>VT students do land jobs. They have a 12% unemployment rate (those not going to grad school or employed at graduation). Georgia Tech has a 5% unemployment rate. VT has a median salary of $45,000, while GT has a median salary of $55,000 (though that is skewed because a higher percentage of VT grads work in rural areas). </p>
<p>Look at it this way: if you told someone you were going to UNC, they’d say “Wow, that’s great”. If you told someone you turned down Harvard to go to UNC, they’d say “Are you kidding?” Does that make UNC a bad school? No, it’s still a good school.</p>
<p>Thanks for clarifying, G.P.Burdell. I am interested in biomedical engineering but I’ve heard that Ivies are fairly strong in this regard. What’s your take on this? Also, since Yale has asmall engineering department, does that make it an easier department to get into, then say, pre-law?</p>
<p>I don’t really know much about the Ivy’s admission process outside of MBA admissions. Many of the Ivy’s do well in biomedical because it’s an emerging field and they tend to have good medical research programs.</p>
<p>I do know that for biomedical, GT is the #2 school in the country.</p>
<p>Thanks G.P Burdell, and I again didn’t know that GT was that highly ranked for BME. I thought that the top few programs were at Johns Hopkins, MIT, UMich, UC Berkely, etc.</p>
<ol>
<li> Johns Hopkins University (Whiting)</li>
<li> Georgia Institute of Technology</li>
<li> University of California–San Diego (Jacobs)</li>
<li> Duke University (Pratt)</li>
<li> Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li> University of Washington</li>
<li> Rice University (Brown)</li>
<li> University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li> Boston University</li>
<li> Stanford University</li>
<li> Washington University in St. Louis (Sever)</li>
</ol>