<p>So I have a bit of a predicament that I'm sure a lot of my peers are familiar with: deciding on the school. </p>
<p>I've narrowed it down to two, MIT and Georgia Tech. Now...the catch is that, after all scholarship money is taken into account, MIT would cost me ~12k a year (family could pay for it no big deal...but I'd be doing ROTC, which I want to do anyways, but could take away from the college experience). Now, Georgia Tech would be absolutely free.... </p>
<p>I want to do aerospace engineering. MIT is ranked #1, Georgia Tech is #2. I want to serve in the military anyways, so doing ROTC isn't a big deal (and I might do it at Tech anyways). But is MIT worth the 50k a year more than Tech? </p>
<p>yes.
My op mit is very tough to get in, git not so much. by already getting into mit you have already shown that you are probably atleast decently intelligent (probably more so, but there always a few who slip through the cracks) /hard working. MIT is a big name and 50k though is a lot, still is not as bad as it could be.</p>
<p>I’m a community college student, planning to transfer to Georgia Tech (if I can’t get into Berkeley). I’ve toured the campus twice, and I absolutely adore it. It’s ridiculously modern, with incredible stuff everywhere, nice housing, great location, interesting people, etc. I even plan to take on debt to live on campus just because I want to soak it in in full.</p>
<p>That said, if I got into MIT, there is literally 0% chance I would go to GT. Not that it’s worth it in some objective way, but because it’s worth it to me. </p>
<p>Both are top schools, you seem to have no worries about money…go to the one seems cooler imo.</p>
<p>MIT is the number one engineering university in the world. I don’t even know how you have doubts especially for the price you are going to pay. You are so lucky.</p>
Would I pay $50k/yr more for MIT than GT? No way.
Would I pay $12k/yr more? Much more likely.</p>
<p>But that’s me, with my assets. If I had $10 million in the bank, I might approach that price differential in another way. So I can’t make your financial choices for you.</p>
<p>I think there are a few questions you should ask yourself:</p>
<p>1) How sure are you about ROTC and eventual military service? What is that interest based upon?</p>
<p>2) If not in the military (or after your service) what kind of career would you want?</p>
<p>3) How do you feel about the two schools? Boston vs. Atlanta? What kind of “college experience” are you looking for?</p>
<p>If you’re thinking strictly in terms of return on investment, I’d probably say GT only because the military does not give a crap where you went to school if it was not one of the military academies, only how many bake sales you “spearhead” while you’re in. </p>
<p>In all honesty though, MIT is MIT, and you just can’t quantify the value of going to what is easily among the best overall schools in the world.</p>
<p>I know GT has a much higher washout rate (probably not as much of a concern if you got into MIT), but it means at MIT you’d have fewer classmates worrying about not making the cut.</p>
<p>Also, if you go ROTC, won’t your tuition be fully covered, plus you’ll be paid a stipend?</p>
<p>So are you saying that Georgia Tech is free regardless of whether you do ROTC and MIT is 12,000 only if you do ROTC, othewiser MIT is a lot more than that? If that’s the case you really need to be sure you want to do ROTC. If you are absolutely sure about ROTC then pick MIT otherwise if you aren’t sure then pick Georgia Tech.</p>