Which one is easier to get into for engineering majors?
Do you live in either MI or GA?
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Probably about the same. Both have admission rates around 25% for engineering but sub 20% for OOS residents. OOS tuition is a little less at GT. Apply EA to both for best chance of admission. Both are very statistics driven (GPA/ACT-SAT), I’d be pleased to go to either one. Both are very challenging intellectually, IMO, Michigan has a better support system in engineering. Both have a great startup/new technology focus too. The GT EA date is 10/15 and Michigan 11/1.
Agree, they are probably close. Apply to both and see what happens.
BOTH schools are extremely difficult to get into for engineering, at Michigan people got rejected with a 33 or 34 just by applying into engineering and same story for Georgia Tech, alot of people I know would apply to the College of Letters and Science or apply as an undecided student just to get into the institution and then transfer into Engineering. Sorry for such a late reply. I hope this help’s the future students who are to look at this chat.
I know it’s an old thread, but regarding post #3, OOS tuition is not a little less at GT. It’s a lot less. Over $12k a year less. Michigan is among the most expensive public schools in the country for OOS students.
Chardo, it depends on how you look at it. $12,000 is definitely a lot of money, but relatively speaking, assuming you are OOS with no FA or scholarship, GT will cost $200,000 over four years while Michigan will cost $250,000 over the same span. I agree it is not “a little less”, but I also do not think it is “a lot less”. To those who can afford one without too much hardship, the other is not significantly more or less. To those who cannot afford one without going into a lot of debt, the other will likely not be much more reasonable.
GT is only 42k per year, well below 200k total.
For GA residents that have the academic qualifications for GT, tuition is nearly free with the Zell Miller/ Hope scholarship. MI residents pay $14-$17K in-state at Michigan. Michigan also offers FA to OOS students. For GT current OOS COA are $47-$50K total. So the cost differential can be murky.
I currently pay the GT OOS bill. Tuition is $32k. Room and board varies (son lives in frat house). Total is nowhere near $47-50k.
My D2 is a Junior at GTech. She had acceptances to UMich as well. The COA differential is around $11k per year. There is no reason to pay that much premium (more so in %age terms) to study Eng or CS at UMich. I would have paid that premium only for Stanford or MIT and she did not get into either.
As @Chardo has mentioned, I pay around $32K per year tuition and she shares an apartment with fellow students (Square on Fifth @1k/mon for her).
The official GT OOS cost of attendance (which is used in calculating financial aid and is shared with the federal goverment) is $47,612. Of course, like must COA’s, you can look for ways to reduce your cost (such as getting roommates, doing your own cooking, limit your flights home, etc.)
https://www.finaid.gatech.edu/current-cost-overview
UM OOS COA is $59,784 (lower division) to $62,972 (upper division).
“There is no reason to pay that much premium (more so in %age terms) to study Eng or CS at UMich.”
Assuming some one would be equally happy at both places…
“Which one is easier to get into for engineering majors?”
Once again a discussion goes awry.
Gator88NE, the GT tuition you mentioned is only for Freshmen. For “all other undergraduate students”, the cost is $50,164. Also, those figures are for the 2016-2017 academic year, while the Michigan’s are for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Chardo, I appreciate that there are ways to cut costs, but I was going on the cost of attendance as reported by official GT and Michigan sources.
According to both their websites, GT costs roughly $200,000 for four years, while Michigan costs $250,000 for the same.
“There is no reason to pay that much premium (more so in %age terms) to study Eng or CS at UMich.”
Actually, there are many reasons to pay that premium, assuming one has the means, and assuming Michigan is a better fit. But I agree that if costs are a concern, as they are to most families, or if both schools are equally appealing to the student, paying that premium makes little sense.
This post was made last Oct. and the OP has not been back since January.
Alexandre, maybe you should trust the folks who actually write the checks. My spoiled non-freshman doesn’t cut costs, and I’m paying about $42k all in for GT, not counting travel.
I trust you Chardo, but by that reckoning, Michigan is also much cheaper than advertised. We are still talking $170,000 vs $220,000. Either way, Michigan is not much more expensive than GT. It is not slightly more expensive either. There is a difference, but relative to each other, the difference is neither excessive, nor it is insignificant.
^^ agreed @Alexandre @rjkofnovi. For my D2, GTech was a better fit than UMich. I could have easily paid the difference if she had chosen UMich (or UCB) for that matter.