<p>hey you guys. i've been accepted to both cmu and gatech. but i have no idea where to go. I want to be at a school with a great reputation, great engineering, and a great job afterwards. what is a girl to do?</p>
<p>i've been to a precollege program at cmu for the past two summers, i know a lot of people there (faculty and students), and i absolutely love it there. where as with georgia tech i'm an instate student with great FA, been accepted to the honors program, summer program, but i don't know it well and the student's general consensus from the school is that they hate it.</p>
<p>i really don't want to regret my decision for the rest of my life. </p>
<p>Look at the GT graduate admin building. At the top of the stairs, on the cornice, you will find a the name of the original building. </p>
<p>OK. Analysis. Why would GT offer a ‘honors’ for engineering? Is there more than intellectual difference between nonhonors vs honors at this school? Why? </p>
<p>CMU does not have a ‘honors’ program other than opportunities, if the student wishes them. </p>
<p>BTW. The College does not make the future. It may offer different futures but the determinate is YOU.</p>
<p>For every person who says they hate it at GT, there’s someone who will say they hate it at CMU. CMU also charges an assload of money.</p>
<p>If you get decent financial aid from CMU, then go, but I wouldn’t take more than 40k in debt to attend there; they’re not as well known for MechE</p>
<p>The GT Honors program isn’t engineering specific - it’s for all majors. It’s also not anything exceptional. Honors program students get their own dorm and a few capacity controlled courses. You can graduate with honors without being in the honors program.</p>
<p>I should also point out that Georgia Tech doesn’t just offer good financial aid in-state. It’s free (provided you meet some GPA/SAT qualifications that everyone admitted to GT should meet).</p>
<p>I am a student at Georgia Tech, and would definitely recommend it. I know many people who are Mechanical Engineering majors who are doing really well. One really great thing about Tech is that it has a great internship/co-op program with good relations with many companies who hold numerous on campus interviews for students (one of my friends is ME and is a co-op at Exxonmobil and got an offer from Lockheed Martin as well) as well as an internship fair and a career fair each semester.</p>
<p>I am also in the Honors Program too, which is sort of BS as it’s new, isn’t really something to boast or really anything prestigious but you get to live in the honors dorm where I met a lot of cool people my freshman, you get to take these ‘seminar courses’ and you get to take ‘honors’ level courses for classes such as chemistry/physics/english/calculus (not recommended as it is proof-based). If I had to make the decision again I would probably do it for the people I met (although I’d rather not take honors calc II again).</p>
<p>All in all both are tough schools that will make you work for that engineering degree. For me, I am a biomedical engineering student, and Tech is not as bad as people make it out to be, I feel that it has that reputation because lot of instate people from like southern Georgia or middle Georgia are unprepared for the academic rigor of a world class institute like GT. Even with my biomedical engineering coursework, I have time to get involved with student organizations, do research, and spend time just hanging out with friends or partying on the weekends; I really love the environment here.</p>
<p>One last resource, I will really take this with a grain of salt but look at this [Carnegie</a> Mellon University - ACB](<a href=“collegeacb.com”>collegeacb.com - This website is for sale! - collegeacb Resources and Information.) it seems that CMU is every bit as difficult (if not more difficult) than GT and has their share of struggling students who sort of hate it there too.</p>
<p>The decision is up to you. I would definitely advise you to visit Georgia Tech to get a feel of the campus/people/environment and see it for yourself. If you have any other questions feel free to email me at <a href=“mailto:david.deng@gatech.edu”>david.deng@gatech.edu</a> and I will be happy to reply.</p>
<p>^thank you.
yeah i thought about that too… a lot of students think college is going to be like the movies
i visited tech and it didn’t feel quite right, but i was sore from a tennis match the day before so i think me not liking it on that particular day was inevitable. </p>
<p>can anyone tell me about cmu’s mechE program?</p>
<p>I had a few friends that went through it, and they all had a pretty good time. If you’re interested in robotics there’s a ton of various classes for specializing in it, as well as lots of professors offering research positions with it. I can’t say a whole lot about the MechE program since I only took the intro class (I majored in Materials Science & Engineering at CMU). If you have any general questions about the school/college of engineering, though, I’d be glad to help.</p>
<p>CMU is more of a national-global university. Higher income foreign students since they are full cost. It is also private and thus its mandate is to its enrollment. </p>
<p>GT may also be a national-global university but its mandate is to the residents of Georgia. The quality of instate students will depress the total enrollment</p>
<p>DS did ME at CMU. Four years should not be a problem for a well prepared but with no AP credits. AP credit is very difficult to get at CMU because the course level is so high. If you are accepted to CIT, they feel that you are capable of doing the work. The work will be challenging and teamwork is highly recommended, if not mandatory in some courses. Obtaining a position with a prof by your junior year or sooner should not be difficult with good grades and initiative. I recollect that something like 20-25% of ME double major. Approximately equal proportions of undergrad to grad. Also 20-25% do a 5th year masters at the same undergrad tuition. </p>