<p>Looking to add one more college that is known for its engineering reputation. Son has applied on Nov 1, waiting for the decision and now has one more college to add to the list if on Dec 16th he gets rejected from GT.</p>
<p>On his list are many reaches like Rice, Vandy, USC, UT, Carnegie, WashU and matches/safeties are U of Miami, Santa Clara and GTech. Have one last slot for Stanford (the plan is to swap Stanford with one last option if he gets rejected from GT).</p>
<p>He is very keen on GT, and will visit in March. Want to do Computer related major.</p>
<p>He already has a varied list of schools and now he is looking to add one more and so I thought of asking here so he can research. He is US citizen applying as int'l. B/B+ GPA, 35 ACT, perfect SAT math scores total 2170. 2 SAT subject Math/Phys 800/790. AP scholar.</p>
<p>He wants to avoid cold weather (except CMU) and get a well rounded college experience. Does not want to consider Purdue/UIUC/Colgate/Case/VT........please advise.</p>
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<p>would avoid gatech then. its kind of a lopsided oval.</p>
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<p>That depends on your definition of “well rounded”. I’ve heard that Bud Peterson is pushing to add law and medical colleges in order to make the institute more “well rounded” (there is even land allocated for both if the Regents ever give permission). But how will either of these affect the life of engineering students? I don’t really think it will.</p>
<p>But back to the OP… Let’s see: a good engineering program, in a warm climate… the schools that come to mind are UF, TAMU, UCLA, Duke, and Cal Poly SLO. You can probably throw out TAMU (less “well rounded” than Tech in all regards), and Duke is a reach based on the listed reach schools. What about the other three?</p>
<p>Add a med school? The joint BME department with Emory seems to be pretty successful already. Expanding the liberal arts college would be a lot cheaper. Law school might not be a bad idea though because then Tech can perhaps get better representation in the state government.</p>
<p>I don’t really have any more suggestions; GP pretty much nailed them, as there aren’t that many great schools in warm climates.</p>
<p>What I meant by well-rounded was that he can get a good college experience (not community college) with the programs, diversity, city life and sports at Gtech, I think GT fits his overall requirement. It is indeed more techy than the others on his list, and he knows that.</p>
<p>Plus he is really keen on GT from what he has read so far and we know a couple of kids there who are happy. He is also aware that he will have to work really hard at GT.</p>
<p>What about other colleges such at University of Richmond, William and Mary, James Madison, Furman?</p>
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<p>The push is to take Tech’s reputation from being a “top engineering school” and a “top public school” to just a “top school”. That’s a very difficult thing to do when you’re a highly focused engineering school, so the goal is to make the school more visible nationally. The quickest ways to do that are the professional degrees: 1) MBA, 2) JD, 3) MD. We’ve already seen Tech’s reputation rise substantially with the addition of the MBA only 5 or 6 years ago, the goal is to increase that even more with a JD or MD. </p>
<p>The JD makes more sense, especially with a lot of focus on patent law. To get a JD, GT has to fight UGA, who wants to keep it’s status as the #1 public law school in Georgia (they are still upset about losing the #1 business school standing to Tech). An MD, on the other hand, is more attainable. Tech only has to fight the Medical College of Georgia, and can argue that a GT-Grady partnership will benefit both sides.</p>
<p>Tennessee would be a good safety. It does not have the same reputation for engineering, but they are investing in engineering pretty heavily and there are opportunities to coop at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory closeby. The computing opportunities at ORNL are world-class.</p>
<p>Did not apply to any UC’s and now the date has passed.</p>
<p>I think he wants to keep Stanford on the list. It is his super reach dream school and want to give it a shot.</p>
<p>DH is a GaTech BME, and UGA law grad-practices patent law in a AMLaw 100 firm and loves using his ME training every day in both patent prosecution and litigation. Patent law is one of the few areas of law that has survived the economic downturn-remember that many Fortune 500 companies rise and fall on the strength of their intellectual property. Tech has one of the most succesful “incubator” programs in the nation-The Tech Research Institute ( name?) has provided intellectual capital and $ for start-up of some ground-breaking companies. Husband also coaches a mock trial team at Tech-their team has done well against other nationally ranked teams who have law schools as part of their universities. </p>
<p>We have twins at Furman University and D just completed a transient semester at Tech. She has a long term interest in Architecture but wants a liberal arts undergraduate degree. Like her dad, she loves the students and the "vibrant’ nature of the culture and student life at Tech. In her opinion, the liberal arts college has a way to go to mirror the feel of liberal arts programs like Davidson or Furman, but Tech is committed as GP says, to rounding out it’s reputation in that area.</p>
<p>FWIW, I spent several years working and teaching at the Medical College of Georgia-their new campus which will open in Athens will be welcome in Georgia-they turn out excellent physicians with actual “bedside” skills and diagnostic capabilities. Over the years I have worked with several former engineers who went to medical school. The Tech school of Biology currently has some similar types of faculty working in their Ovarian Cancer Institute.</p>