@gearmom It’s bad judgement to apply to a school that doesn’t have her desired major. And yes it was a Reach, she’s fortunate to get into both schools really. Should I direct you to the admissions threads for both schools and show you those whom were Rejected/WL?
@Whovian18
Tell them that all of Emory’s engineering degree’s are 5 years. A 3-2 program. Calculate them the total expected cost, and that the two years at Tech would be at least 14,000 IF YOU ARE ABLE TO KEEP ZELL MILLER, it would be around full instate cost otherwise for those two years. That’s around $70,000 total instead of $56,000. Again GTech can work if you really work on scholarship applications.
@VANDEMORY1342 Her desired major from the start of this was CS which Emory has. In fact YOU chanced her. Post #35 is the first time she mentioned EE.
I’m not the one suggesting that she did only got in because of demographics or QB rather than her own qualifications.
We already know Emory has a 3+2.
@Whovian18 You could get a degree in CS at Emory and be very successful. Finding an extra 7k a year is high though @VANDEMORY1342 thinks you can find this through scholarships.
I just looked up rankings of computer science programs. I found several rankings that don’t completely agree with each other. However, Emory is ranked very high on each of the rankings that I looked at. Georgia Tech is ranked even higher. Certainly Georgia Tech is very well known for many technical fields and has a very good CS program. However, Emory is also very good for CS.
I have worked with many software engineers for many years. A few went to MIT or Stanford, but most of them went to schools that are lower ranked on the rankings compared to both Emory and GT, and yet are nonetheless well paid and doing very well. I have never heard of ABET certification for CS. I googled around a bit just now and didn’t find evidence that the majority of the very best CS programs in the world have ABET certification.
@whovian18, you could do very well with a CS degree from either school. Assuming that you take your studies very seriously, keep ahead in classes, and that nothing unexpected happens, to me the only actual likely way that you could go wrong would be to get part way through university and run out of money and have to drop out. Assuming that this doesn’t happen, then you very likely will get a job paying at least $60k per year regardless of which of these two very good universities that you go to. However, living on $60k per year will be easier if you do it without any debt. Getting a full ride to a school as strong as Emory is a BIG DEAL, and is going to make things a lot easier for you down the road.
Don’t expect CS at either school to be easy – it won’t be.
“Emory’s computer science programs is not the best”
If you mean that it isn’t ranked #1 in the world then of course, neither is GT. Emory is however ranked quite high and you could do very well with a degree from there.
Your parent tax filing status has NOTHING to do with financial aid awards. Both of your parents will need to provide their incomes.
@thumper1 Really? I thought filing separately meant something, like I could qualify for more money
Filing separately, if they are married, means they will not get all the tax credits for college!
@DadTwoGirls
It’s for not necessarily ranking. GTech is her “dream” school. Scroll up to her recent post if you missed it.
@VANDEMORY1342 funny how many other parents agreed with my comment on the other thread.
OP-- at this point, you know the options. Your parents’ money is theirs to spend as they see fit. It seems that your options are to go to a school of which they approve, or find a way to finance the school of your dreams. Option #2 rarely works out for 17 or 18 year old kids who want to go to school full time and live at school, much less study abroad.
Most of us on this thread have no agenda-- we’ve offered the best advice we can for you.
But finances are always a concern. They need to be a part of any conversation about where you can apply, where you can attend. Don’t believe for a second that filing separately is the answer to college funding-- don’t you think that all of us would have caught on to that by now? Many of us have more than one kid we’re trying to educate-- trying to stretch our incomes to pay all that tuition keeps many of us up at night.
I’ve never been a fan of the “dream school” idea-- as though there’s only one place in the country that’s an ideal fit for you. I think you’ve got a whole lot more potential then that. My daughter has heard a lot about “blooming where you’re planted”-- about choosing a school that’s a good fit in the big picture, and making a life for herself over the next 4 years there. After a couple of rough days this year, we’ve put down a deposit on a school that’s low on prestige, but where we’re confident she’ll indeed bloom.
At the end of the day, you know your options. At this point, the conversation is going in circles.
Emory is not a LAC but a major research university.
(LACs do research anyway - in fact they’re the place most likely to have undergrads involved in research).
Look into
- research done at Emory in CS ; contact the professors (“Dear Dr.x”) to ask about ways in which undergrads can be involved in research
- ways in which students can cross register with GTech.
Is that $7,000 full cost of attendance before loans?
List all costs and financial aid for both.
Isn’t Quest Bridge like an an ED app?
^No, questbridge is a super duper selective program for top lower income students that comes with a fullride. The student has zero direct costs - the credited costs are for books, transportation,insurance, and would not be paid to the school, which inflated them to shelter more of the student’s scholarship (due to the new tax law passed recently, students will have to pay taxes on room& board scholarships but the can deduct the coa published for books hence higher listed book costs than necessary).
Note that I doubt Georgia tech provides similar sheltering for Zell Miller recipients so the difference in cost is actually larger than 7k v.14k.
Don’t get hung-up on prestige. As a computer professional myself, I can tell you that it won’t make a bit of difference. Employers are more interested in what you know rather than where you went. In fact, most CS graduates end-up in IT and never look at a math problem their entire career. It happened to both my dad and my brother, and both of them make 6 figure salaries. Just go with a school you can afford and you’ll be fine.
Nope. Tax filing status has nothing to do with financial aid eligibility.
Your parents are married…right? If that is the case…the FAFSA will REQUIRE both parent incomes and assets on the form. It will be an inconvenience for YOU to do the FAFSA if your parents are married and filed separately. You will not be able to use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, and the school will likely require a tax transcript from BOTH parent returns to verify that your entries are correct. So…order those 2017 tax transcripts now…so you will have them.
Did you think if they filed separately that you ONLY needed to use ONE parents income? If so…that is NOT true.
@coolguy40 So even though Emory is a liberal arts school, it would be best for me to go there since it is a lot cheaper?
@Whovian18 Emory is NOT a liberal arts school. Go look at @MYOS1634 's Post #48.
Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. Our neighbor’s daughter went to her dream school MIT and her life is heck and her parent’s won’t let her leave because it is MIT. Emory is truly prestigious and you’ve been selected to attend. Unless you can find extra money, make it work. Start the five stages of grief and move on. A door closes and a window opens.
But even if Emory was an LAC, plenty of top students attend LACs and major in CS and get great jobs.
@Whovian18. That’s correct. for CS, going prestigious is really not beneficial because the degree is employable. You don’t want large amounts of debt hanging over your head, especially if you want to start a family in the future. Including myself, none of my family members ever went anywhere prestigious, but we had no trouble finding jobs and all of us are doing well in our careers.
^Except Emory is plenty prestigious to top it off!