<p>I am going to be a freshman in computer engineering this fall and, I was wondering, how the gender situation REALLY is at Tech. I plan on living on East campus and I am very social person (I plan on joining a frat and partying every opportunity I can or at least as much as CE allows me to). For someone that is a "normal" college student by all other, non-techy university means (i.e. someone that is not a recluse or spends his free time playing video games), how difficult is it to meet girls? For those that party, do parties generally represent the dreaded ratio? And do you commonly or ever hang out with girls from Georgia State?</p>
<p>It’s not difficult to meet girls. I have very bad pick-up skills and I got more dates my freshman year than all of high school combined. Just try to avoid doing stupid crap like huddle around one girl when there’s already four other guys surrounding here and you should be fine. As for Georgia State, two of my good friends have girlfriends who are students from Georgia State.</p>
<p>ok, so bright shiny truth. I’m a girl CompE myself, and i will admit that you shouldn’t plan on meeting girls in major-related classes, b.c i’m usually the only one in mine. but if you join and go out of your way to be social, the ratio usually evens out nicely - parties are 50-50 :)</p>
<p>By the way, hows the party life?
I too am a sociable person and am anti-geek. I don’t wanna be stuck in a whole studying with no free time. I want to party whenever I possibly can, and join a frat.
Just wondering how the party/social life would be for a person like me.</p>
<p>I’m biomed engineering major by the way, and I hear that that major has the most girls out of any engineering.</p>
<p>I’m going to be doing Computer Engineering myself, and I’ll let you know that I saw a little table with the gender breakdown for each major. Right now, the Class of 2010 Computer Engineering is 112 guys, 3 girls! It’s getting better though. At this point, it’s about 8 or 9 to 1, but hey, that’s better than 37:1.</p>
<p>Statistically speaking, </p>
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<li>Computer Science major has worst guy gal ratio.<br></li>
<li>Best ratio for engineering are BME and Industrial engineering.<br></li>
<li>Of course, if one studies College of Science or study in college of Liberal art, majority of students are female.</li>
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<p>^You forgot about Enviro. 55 girls, 54 guys in the undergrad program right now.</p>
<p>The ratio is as bad as they say. The parties are even worse. I personally can not stand the girls at tech, they all have what we guys at tech call TBS (tech ***** syndrome). Because of the terrible ratio everyone with long hair gets hit on ; this causes the girls to develop an over confidence/ arrogance which is referred to as TBS. You will find girls at Tech but on many occasions you will have to reduce your standards and put up with the attitude. I’ll advice you go to Uga, they have waaaaaaaaaaay more attractive girls than tech. Warning: You might not want to come back to tech after a trip to UGA.</p>
<p>Okay, the party life isn’t miserable. My friend put it as this…“a drinking school with an engineering problem”. Fall semester is definitely a lot more lively (due to football, I’d imagine), and spring is still pretty alive, but it’s not as intense as football season. I’d recommend rushing (even if it’s for fun…or the food), and if you like it, join. It makes it easier to have access to social events (date nights, mixers, parties, formals). Otherwise, it’s still easy to find people to chill with, you’ll make friends with the kids on your hall, people from high school, or people in your classes. Not everyone is weird and socially awkward;]</p>
<p>Join a fraternity…a good one. You’ll be able to tell the good ones (ie the ones with the most good looking women around) during rush. Best decision I ever made…it opens up your network to so many more people. Now after the first year or two fraternity life gets kinda old because it’s the same parties with the same chicks that you or your brothers have already hooked up with. But thats when it comes in handy to have met all these people before because then ya’ll can go out and hit up ATL with a posse and have a good time. Don’t meet girls in your classes, they don’t want it from you.</p>
<p>There’s still plenty of opportunities to party and meet people without joining a fraternity but greek life is just such a better social enhancement that I must recommend it. Not to mention that it’s probably going to be your brothers who get you to join their extracurricular clubs/groups, and most of the campus leaders are greek. We help our own…</p>
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<p>It’s really annoying when people “QFT”, but that’s the case here. It’s important to make sure you that pledge a good fraternity that matches your interests, though. Take some time to walk around and meet people before making a decision, and make sure you talk to people not in that house about their perception (particularly women). </p>
<p>You want to avoid joining a house with a bad reputation or a house where you don’t fit in (each house tends to have brothers with some things in common).</p>
<p>If your going Greek avoid Pike, they still have a bad rap over that roofies thing they pulled in the 90s. Personally I had a very strict no frat guy rule while at Tech, I had a few bad experiences. Math pick up lines go over well, the girls will understand them and think your funny for using them, just don’t use them seriously, more like opening a conversation with a nerdy joke.</p>