<p>Read what the definitions have to say about GA tech... it's not this bad is it?</p>
<p>Here are some for example...</p>
<p>The lack of happiness.
There are two times that a Georgia Tech student is happy: when they get in, and when they get out.</p>
<p>A black hole for all things good in nature. It consumes all things good. Students consume large quantities of beer and liquor to help cope with the daily onslaught of anal reemage from the faculty and staff. Is also notorious for having hidious members of the female sex.
John entered Georgia Tech with a 1510 on his sat and a 4.0 GPA but graduated with a 2.3 and a drinking problem.</p>
<p>A drinking school with a engineering problem
At Georgia Tech 100% of the student body drinks 60% get engineering degrees.</p>
<p>Well at least most of GA TEch’s get engineering degress and dont drive semis. Never mind a drunk semi truck driver is about as bad as a alcoholic engineer who designs or checks the truck!!! But I surely hope that the definition is wrong. :-D</p>
<p>Most students that go to Tech did not have to work in high school - it was easy for them. Unless you’re a genius, Tech isn’t easy and you have to work to succeed. Given that situation, there are two ways students respond: either they hunker down, put in the effort, challenge themselves, and grow academically or they give up, complain, and blame everyone but themselves for their own failure.</p>
<p>It’s the people that fall into the second group that post on websites like that.</p>
<p>Tech will not be a nanny. I don’t think they require you to live on campus and I don’t think they ever had nanny rules for girls, even when other schools did. They think you are an adult and if you don’t accept responsibility as an adult, they won’t have to put up with you for long. I have known top notch students who restricted hard partying to weekends and did well. And I have known some ill-prepared students (Tech tends not to admit them any more) who worked hard and still did not make it. As for the girls, give a look at their dance team and cheerleaders.</p>
<p>Plenty of people are having a great time at GT. They just don’t have time to sit around and post junk on newsgroups about it. Go visit and talk to people.</p>
<p>I am a second year computer science major at GT, and I was almost scared off by rumors like these. Don’t be. You don’t have to drink yourself to death to be happy, and most of the professors are actually really nice. If you put in just a little effort into managing your time, you can be successful and have plenty of fun. I would know, I’m doing it now (3.9 GPA, involved in clubs, have a boyfriend, etcetc)</p>
<p>So good to hear from students like you maea!!</p>
<p>My son has applied for CE and has been deferred. He is extremely sharp and is very keen on Gtech, so he keeps reading and laughs when he reads the kinds of things some people say!! </p>
<p>What is the difference (besides hardware/software) between the CE at Engineering and CS at the college of computing? I would love to hear from a student, thanks.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of this drinking problem thing. GT is a great challenging school for people who are smart and willing to work hard. Also, my opinion is that 95% of the girls in engineering/science are not attractive. I’d have to make my way towards the management building for eye candy. Anyway, this is what UGA is for!</p>
<p>Drinking on campus in the 80’s and 90’s was much worse than it is today. The fraternity parties were not monitored, the GTPD ignored public intoxication, and GT administration almost encouraged alcohol at events.</p>
<p>The most visible changes: fraternities are required to have a police officer check ID’s at the door and use a wrist bracelet system for alcohol at parties, the school no longer actively promotes alcohol, and GTPD will now arrest students for public intoxication. The results: Tech is no longer a “drinking school with an engineering problem.”</p>
<p>This may have been the plan, but this does not occur. Incoming freshmen are encouraged, but not required, to take an online alcohol awareness class. Fraternities or sororities caught permitting underage drinking are put on social probation and required to take alcohol education courses, but police officers do not check IDs and the Greek system does not utilize wrist bands. Although GTPD has always been able to arrest people for public intoxication, I have never heard of this occurring unless the student is intoxicated to the point of needing medical attention. Police have even been known to drive drunk students back to their dorms with nothing more than the warning that they shouldn’t be getting intoxicated. I would say drinking issues at Tech are not any worse than at most other colleges, and are likely better than the problems faced by many institutions. The idea that any significant portion of the student body is so depressed and defeated that they drink to escape the academic load is ludicrous.</p>
<p>CE is civil engineering, as previously mentioned, but I assume you mean ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering). The fundamental difference really is just hardware vs. software. </p>
<p>IFC policies require for any event (party): 1) 10% of the chapter (up to 5 people) must be listed as sober monitors for any events, 2) a licensed and insured security company must be present to monitor the event (at least two guards - almost always off duty GTPD or APD), 3) the guards must pass out wrist bands to individuals that provide ID proof of age, 4) non-affiliated sober patrols will periodically sweep through the event to ensure that the sober monitors are sober, the guards are still present, and only people with wristbands are drinking. </p>
<p>GTPD doesn’t arrest drunk kids walking through campus, but they will arrest people yelling or causing a disruption (this used to not be the case) outside of a house. They will also patrol around parties and breathalyze anyone that gets into the driver’s seat of a car.</p>
<p>Kind of unrelated, but does anywhere on campus sell alcohol? Just curious because my alma mater didn’t even allow the full fledged restaurants on campus to carry the stuff.</p>
<p>Not really. Ferst Place (student center 3rd floor) is a fine dinning restaurant that is not always open, but does have a liquor license (I believe for beer and wine only). Students very rarely eat there. There is also alcohol at catered events - so alumni meetings, MBA “get togethers” in the college of management, alumni tailgating at the Alumni House, etc. but none of those are open to the public.</p>
<p>The nearest college hangout with alcohol is Rocky Mountain Pizza, which is across the street from the West Campus dorms. If you just want to go buy beer, there’s the BP on North Avenue (next to the North Avenue Apartments) or Publix three blocks from the college of management. For something stronger than beer and wine, you can go to Moe’s liquor store across the street from Publix. There are also small restaurants along West Peachtree and on West campus, but those aren’t really college places (more like happy hour for midtown professionals). </p>
<p>But if you really want to drink, you can go off campus to Buckhead, Virginia Highlands, or even some of the restaurants at Howell Mill.</p>
<p>About a year ago, I was also looking at the piles of negative comments on various sites about Georgia Tech. It almost scared me into not coming here, but I decided a Georgia Tech degree was too valuable to give up. However, my experience has been nowhere near what I read.</p>
<p>Let me give you a little background information. I’m not a genius by any means. Honestly, Tech was a bit of a reach for me. My SAT scores were 570 reading, 720 math, and 540 writing. My unweighted high school GPA was a 3.875 which put me in the lower-top 10% of my graduating class (~740 students). My statistics probably put me a hair away from being rejected, but Tech accepted me.</p>
<p>Now, let me tell you about my experiences at Tech. I currently have a 4.0 GPA with 22 credit hours (6 from the of Summer 09’ and 16 from the Fall of 09’). Making A’s is not nearly as hard as most of the sites out there will have you think. It just takes a solid study plan. My golden rule thus far has been to study however many credit hours I am taking that semester each week (I would study 16 hours a week my fall semester). That came out to ~2 hours each day. This may sound like a decent amount, but you don’t spend 8 hours a day in classes at college like you did in high school. I had plenty of time to socialize with friends, join clubs, and do other non academic things.</p>
<p>One of the most criticized things about Tech I have seen/read is the student body. Not everyone hides in their room 24 hours a day and studies. There are attractive females here (granted most of them already have boyfriends). I won’t lie though. The ratio is awful. Some of my classes have nearly a 10:1 guy to girl ratio. However, if you are an attractive guy (I’ll let you decide what this entails), you can find an attractive girlfriend. </p>
<p>About the alcohol that has been discussed in this thread. Yes, people consume alcohol here. Point out a college campus where alcohol is not consumed. Hardly any students here don’t go on crazy binge drinking sprees. Also, very few students here drink because they are depressed. Students here drink, but most are level headed and drink in moderation.</p>
<p>I guess I’ll sum up my post with a couple points.
Good grades at tech are not impossible. (4.0 here, and I’m not a genius by any stretch of the imagination)
The Student body here is not nearly as bad as people will make it out to be.
The entire student body does not sit in their dorm room and drink the pain away.
This post is my opinion. </p>
<p>I’ll be happy to answer any other questions.</p>
<p>Awesome post farmergregor! I am really pushing for Tech, unfortunately my GPA isn’t exactly like your HS GPA, but I think I have a chance with (anywhere from a 3.5-3.57 applying Early probably) and ~1300-1400/2000-2150.</p>
(3.9 GPA, involved in clubs, have a boyfriend, etcetc)</p>