As a background, I’m from Mass trying to do a double or combined major in CS and Business/Econ. Money is thankfully not an issue for me, so I don’t hold it as strongly as a factor in my decision. Career wise, trying to get into IB and definitely plan to go to grad school. I’m trying to decide which college will allow me to get better opportunities in the job market and grad school admission. Also, as of now I am planning on applying as a transfer to schools like Penn? Any thoughts?
Georgia Tech is definitely a stronger school for computer science. Besides its rankings, I think the critical advantage is that with a much larger faculty, they have a rich set of elective/track choices to offer that Hopkins cannot with its smaller faculty.
I don’t have direct any insights for the other questions you have asked. Neither of them seem highly ranked for business.
JHU. JHU CS is strong too and while they aren’t really an IB target, they have a famed investment management class. But are you a transfer? In HS? You should have had to decide by now.
Unsolicited opinion…if you go into any college with the intent of transferring you will be doing that school and yourself a disservice. If you have one foot out the door from the start it will become very hard to develop meaningful friendships, become actively involved in campus activities etc. Then if the transfer doesn’t work out you will be stuck in a place that you have not developed meningful attachments to. Keep in mind that the the tippy-top schools don’t take a ton of transfers so the odds will not be in your favor. IMO you should go to a school with the idea that you will stay for four years and if you ultimately decide to throw in a transfer application and see what happens that is fine.
Got off the waitlist from GT and Hopkins so now trying to decide by today