<p>^^^funny...</p>
<p>i'm facing something similar. i'm debating between purdue, michigan, and upenn for engineering.</p>
<p>^personally, I'd go to Michigan.</p>
<p>^ How is the Georgia Tech lifestyle?</p>
<p>What life!</p>
<p>It's ok. Food's bad. Assignments are somewhat long. Seeing other freshman partying every day saddens me, haha. I skipped almost all of the intro classes, and I'm taking 17 hour. Plus research. Almost no time left for social or sexy fun, ha. Especially under ECE. And the handful of girls (the ones that look like girls) that are in ECE, in my classes, are about 3 or 4 years older than me.</p>
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<p>Uh Woodruff has amazing dining. </p>
<p>No comment on the rest :) . Honestly I think ECE is as bad as it gets so you overly pessimistic (I am ECE as well). My friend is in HCI over in the college of computing and there are a lot of normal girls (i.e. not FotB or shut-ins) because the classes are soft sciences.</p>
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<p>If you decide to do BS/MS here that could change. I'm taking 13 grad credits and I sleep in until noon every day and go out every other night.</p>
<p>Tech's lifestyle is what you make of it. I see people partying everyday and having fun all the time. Not everyone just studies like crazy or anything, and things do go on campus, you just gotta find out about it yourself. It's really not as bad as people make it sound sometimes.</p>
<p>Well, I'm just a freshman so...</p>
<p>i really like the food at gt, even at brittain. cant wait till next year for better dorms tho.</p>
<p>social life has been bad for me so far but its def not bad for everyone</p>
<p>Sounds like you want some smaller schools....try Rose Hulman for a smaller engineering school</p>
<p>GT's ECE is a lot of work. If you want to do well you'll be shut-in your room most of the time studying. That is what a majority of the people on campus do. I usually just chilled on Fri nights and most of Saturday. The rest of the time was playing "catch up" on assignments because that's all you can do at GT. You will NEVER be up to date in all of your classes at once. If you really want to party and have fun you'll have to drive up to UGA for the weekend. That's what I would do to experience a normal college life.</p>
<p>Firstly, Furman Univeristy in South Carolina is not an engineering school. Its a VERY small liberal arts school.</p>
<p>Secondly, you need to find a school that is a combination of the criteria that you mentioned. I agree with the posters above who said that you need to go to the school that is the best fit for you. That way, you will be excited to be there, and will work hard and excel at what you do.</p>
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<li><p>Grinnell, Hendrix, Furman, Wake Forest, Boston College do not offer engineering programs. The 3-2 engineering programs are a waste of an extra year and can end up in bad transitions since you will be forced to find new friends at the 2nd school.</p></li>
<li><p>Tulane and BU are not reputable engineerng schools.</p></li>
<li><p>Georgia Tech and Purdue are very good. For more of a social life, look at Michigan. If you want a smaller school, I would look at Rose-Hulman and Harvey Mudd.</p></li>
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