<p>Thanks for the great information! Both of your comments were very helpful.</p>
<p>@jym626 @cobrat @ veruca your information with great value! very very helpful!
a lot of thanks! </p>
<p>Cobrat-
I live here. I know students currently and recently enrolled at Tech, and faculty who teach there. My son spend a summer attending classes there. I attend events on campus and interact with students and the admissions office. This is current information, not anecdotal information from students who attended in the past, possibly even decades ago. But of course, what you heard from relatives who worked with a few past grads carries so much more weight. :-@ </p>
<p>jym626,</p>
<p>I also know some students who are there or who graduated within the past couple of years. All are engineering/CS majors, turned down offers from topflight places like MIT, and while doing well…felt it was a hard slog through their undergrad years. </p>
<p>Veruca’s account of her student staying up till 2 am studying every night sounds about right. </p>
<p>No one said it was not a hard slog. Engineering is hard. My engineering s’s (neither were Tech grads) had many a late night as well. If I read veruca’s post correctly, her dau was up til 2 am studying the week before spring break. Not every night. But engineers work crazy hours no matter where they attend. </p>
<p>Tech had the reputation of being competitive and cut-throat. That is not the sense I get now from currently enrolled students and recent grads. Things have reportedly become more collegial and cooperative.</p>
<p>My son and I visited Georgia Tech and a couple of things stood out. The male:female ratio is high on males, low on females, as mentioned. The other thing is our tourguide told us that a guy she knows did a “crazy thing” and bought a bicycle. I guess biking is considered odd or unsafe around GA Tech? Is this true? Seemed an odd comment, as a mom, I would sort-of expect students to have bikes, and rode my own bike every day when I was a student in Boston. Oh, and the other thing that stood out about GA Tech — I loved their swimming pool with the slide! and the mascot! (learned never to call it a bumble bee. :-)</p>
<p>The swimming pool was originally the Natatorium for the 1996 olympics, and has since been upgraded. So its a pretty nice structure.</p>
<p>That is a peculiar comment about bikes. Plenty of cyclists around, though there are too many drivers in Atlanta that don’t expect to have to share the road with pedestrians or cyclists.</p>
<p>And yes, the yellow jackets are not bumble bees 
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<p>@jym626 I think I am talking about a different pool, not the lap pool. We saw that one too. The one I am thinking of looked made for fun only, and is either partly open air or next to a big glass wall.</p>
<p>I think you are talking about the Crawford pool with the waterslide</p>
<p>Many inportant replies will help us to make a decision!
Thanks a lot! </p>
<p>We decided to go to GIT.</p>
<p>Yay! Go Jackets !</p>
<p>My niece is there in her freshman year, working very hard but finding a good social life too. </p>
<p>I believe there’s an organization of women engineering students on campus who are there to welcome and encourage more women into engineering. That’s separate from the sorority structure, I believe. Maybe your D can reach out to find them? Best of luck in her great new adventure at Georgia Tech!</p>