<p>My son was rejected from UGA Honors Program, but accepted at Georgia Tech (summer admission). He's smart enough to qualify for the Georgia HOPE scholarship for either school, though. Majoring in business, public policy and/or politics. Now he's weighing the UGA vs. TECH options.</p>
<p>QUESTIONS:
1.Does this imply that Georgia Tech, allegedly a very competitive school, is more lenient with admissions than UGA's Honors Program? Or that the Honors Program is becoming more elite?
2. Would Georgia Tech be a complete mismatch for him since he's not an engineering major?</p>
<p>Any objective thoughts on the matter would be appreciated!!!</p>
<p>UGA’s honors program is primarily based on numbers. Tech’s summer program is typically geared for incoming freshmen with lower stats-either GPA or SAT. So it’s likely that your S has either a low SAT or GPA.
Tech in general has a better rep, and some of the non-eng programs are rated higher than UGA’s, for example the business program. Also, and tech degree has the edge of technology, which could be a very distinguishing and helpful factor in the future.</p>
<p>Ga Tech is known for not being too difficult to get into, the problem is staying there. They accept students knowing that many will not be able to do the work and will end up flunking out after two semesters. My daughter has been a student there for the past three years and knows many to whom this happened. A student really must be totally committed to his studies to be successful at Tech and for those who are not willing to put the work in will be shown the door. As they tell students at orientation “look at the students to your right and to your left, two of you wont be here at graduation”.</p>
<p>Well the honors program at any school is going to consist of the top quartile of the students matriculating there. I wouldn’t be surprised if getting accepted to Tech is easier than being the top 25% at UGA.</p>
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<p>The business school is fairly well-respected: on par in the US News rankings to its science programs. I know next to nothing about the public policy school but being in Atlanta I’m sure it is at the very least well-connected to the local government. I know a few months ago delegates from North Korea came to Tech to have a conference on the politics of the Korean peninsula and (among other things) talk about its nuclear program.</p>
<p>GT is, for what it is, excellent and renowned. But it’s important to know what it is. It’s a campus dedicated to technology. It appears to have non-tech programs but when you look at the curricula in the various schools, you find that it has a Communications department but not an English department, a History department that offers only a degree in History of Technology, a music program focused on “music technology” that’s housed in the School of Architecture, and as ThatMom points out, everyone will be held to a high math and science standard. If that’s what you’re looking for, going there under the HOPE Grant is one of the great deals in American higher ed, but if it’s not . . . it’s not.</p>
<p>Thanks for all your posts, my friends! I think we are all leaning toward UGA. The big worry is that professor/student interaction will be nil. He also got a substantial scholarship to Hendrix College in Conway, AR, which we visited. We loved the personal, welcoming nature of the school and the high caliber of academics and student dedication, but my son felt the campus was small. Indeed, compared to either Tech or UGA it is! The point being, we’re realizing that there is no one college that fits EVERY parameter, particularly when finances are a major issue.</p>
<p>Even though i not from GA, but i lived there for one year. Still, i’m more toward Georgia Tech. As a school, GT’s is well-respected.If he is going to do business, GT’s school of management is constantly at the top 50’s. And I also believe that GT, being a technical school, has an edge in the technology-based business world today. UGA is a decent school and all, but its student body is twice as much as GT’s.</p>
<p>Also, UGA undergraduate business school is a separate school. Everybody who wanted to be business major has to enroll college of liberal art first, then apply for business school after two years. I believe that there is SAT-like entry exam as well. Keep that in mind.</p>
<p>I vote for Georgia Tech in this case because Tech is located in the midtown business district and it has stronger co-op/internship program than UGA.</p>
<p>By the way, Tech used to weed out school. Since it changes from quarter to semester system and has a new freshman orientation program, it got a lot of better. Also, from stat, college of management rarely flunk out any student.</p>