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<p>I tend to disagree. I know a few guys that are not that fit in the Corps, and plenty more that are not that smart. Guys in the Corps have a bad reputation of being stuck-up and ignorant – a reputation that isn’t necessarily untrue.</p>
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<p>Haha, you sound like Hemingway…</p>
<p>I kind of got that impression as well in my short time here so far, though since I didn’t do my undergrad here, I don’t really have much evidence for or against that stereotype. It was just a hasty first impression on my part.</p>
<p>Hah, maybe. I haven’t visited A&M in forever but I know plenty that go. Maybe I just have a thing for the military people.</p>
<p>My impressions over the last three years of being around members of the Corps are two-fold. There are some nice guys, and there are some stuck-up ignorant guys… generally the latter is more common. I have some strong negative personal experiences with a few that may be heavily weighing my opinion, but I also know many who share this same opinion. I believe it’s generally because people in the Corps think they are better than us “non-regs”, maybe because of TAMU’s history. I have much respect for the military, as well as have family in the military, and they don’t seem to act this way… just my two cents.</p>
<p>gstein, could it be just a TAMU Corps thing or is this observed at other schools?</p>
<p>To my knowledge, the only other school with anything similar in function and scope to the A&M Corps of Cadets is the Corps of Cadets at Virginia Tech. From what I have heard, they have a similar reputation, and are a much smaller force on campus. I don’t know of any other major school with a Corps of Cadets.</p>
<p>CSmajor5,</p>
<p>Can you offer some insight between GT and Texas A&M? I am struggleing to decise whihc to pick by tomorrow. Is GT much better tha Texas A&M so it justify the distance from home? Will GT serve better change in emploeement or grade school?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
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<p>Haha, asking the wrong person for advice fail. CSmajor5 has shown a consistent inability to answer questions objectively.</p>
<p>Boneh3ad,</p>
<p>Can you offer seom suggestions?</p>
<p>Well you didn’t really give much information. Major? Career goals? Conventional thought would say GaTech is the better school, as it is ranked higher (the only criteria that CSmajor5 uses) and it has been a research institution for longer. However, Texas A&M has really played catch up in recent years, so they difference isn’t nearly as great as it once was. There won’t be any real appreciable difference between the two in most cases. Honestly, it may come down to your own personality, as the two schools are VERY different in character and environment. I myself had to make that choice (though for grad school) and it was difficult to choose between the two there as well.</p>
<p>Ask yourself what is important to you in a school, and then look at which school meets those needs the best, as career-wise, it won’t be too much different. If you ultimately want to live in Texas, stay with A&M. If you ultimately want to leave Texas, GaTech would give you maybe a tiny advantage, but TAMU certainly won’t leave you stuck in Texas.</p>
<p>Yeah… you should seek advise from UIUC graduate when you are trying to decide whether to attend Texas A&M or Gatech… </p>
<p>I will be as unbiased as possible and from my POV is that Texas A&M is NOT UT Austin. If you are in state for Texas and trying to decide whether to attend UT Austin or Gatech, I would suggest you go to UT Austin. You will have equal/similar opportunities for job positions from both schools and research opportunity for graduate admission. It doesn’t make sense for you to fork out extra money for the miniscule difference on the outcome between Gatech and UT Austin. The big major corporation companies will recruit from both and will earn you a good name on your resume when you look for your initial entry level job.</p>
<p>While I was pursuing my CompE degree at Gatech, there was ECE seminar class (one credit pass/fail) which invited major corporations every week to come and talk about the company and what careeer path he/she took within the company. One of the speaker was Texas Instrument which you all know as one of the largest producer in digital/analog Integrated Circuit and fabless semiconductor. The most of EE graduate that Texas Instrument recruit were from UT Austin and second = Gatech. It’s no suprise to see that TI recruit more Gatech students even though Texas A&M is within the state of Texas. </p>
<p>If you compare the companies visting at career fair for UT Austin/Gatech to Texas A&M, you will see clearly how Gatech and UT Austin offers better in terms of job opportunities. </p>
<p>Well like Boneh3ad pointed out, what major and career goal do you have in mind? If you come to Gatech, you are stuck with engineer major where as Texas A&M might offer some other major beside engineer. But as far as engineer degree, I suggest you go Gatech over Texas A&M.</p>
<p>Hey I made a similar choice. I had the choice between A&M, UT Austin, Georgia Tech, and Colorado School of Mines. I chose A&M due to proximity to home and cost of education. </p>
<p>A&M had an atmosphere that fit me better than UT’s, and I do not see that big of a difference between the quality of education or job opportunities.</p>
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<p>As opposed to a guy who has spend his entire school career at GaTech and knows nothing else besides GaTech and the USNWR rankings? Academic inbreeding often does not breed people well-versed in other schools besides their own.</p>
<p>On the contrary, I graduated with my BS from UIUC and am working on my PhD at TAMU. I can tell you right now that yes, if he wants to be a EE, GaTech has the better program. I can also tell you that if he wants to be just about anything else, it is far less of a difference than you think. TAMU, quite frankly, has a fairly modest EE program, especially when compared to what I was around when I was at UIUC, but just because TI likes UT (which isn’t even relevant here) and GaTech more, doesn’t mean that some other company may feel the opposite.</p>
<p>The fact of the matter is, while I only know a little bit of what I am talking about outside of Aerospace and Mechanical departments, you don’t have a clue what you are talking about unless it is in Electrical or Computer engineering/science, or it was told to you while at GT. This has been prove throughout your entire tenure on these forums. Heck, you say schools are bad simply because you don’t know anything about them. How trustworthy/objective is that? To top it off, you just cited one single data point and act like it covers the entirety of recruiting at the school.</p>
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<p>Some companies that recruit at TAMU:
BAE Systems
BASF
Bechtel
Boeing
BP
Chevron
Cisco
ConocoPhillips
Dow Chemical
DuPont
ExxonMobil
General Dynamics
HP
IBM
Lockheed
LyondellBasell
National Instruments
Raytheon
Rolls-Royce
Schlumberger
Shell Oil
Sikorsky
Texas Instruments</p>
<p>That is just a partial list of who is already signed up for the Fall 2010 Career Fair. That is a pretty good selection of companies, and is fairly similar to those that I saw at UIUC and those that I saw when I was researching GaTech about a year ago.</p>
<p>So how exactly is this clearly inferior to the companies at GaTech and UT?</p>
<p>Not pile on, but I have worked for Boeing, Lockheed and currently General Dynamics and have not noticed that one university’s number of graduates clearly outnumbered other universities. Granted, I work in INTEL where “do you have a Poly?” takes precedence over school reputation but still…</p>
<p>If anything, I see a whole truckload of U-Maryland (including the branch campuses), John Hopkins and U-Virginia with a splattering of everyone else. I mean, I rub elbows with a couple of Michigan State grads (we trashed-talked during the NCAA Tourney), a few Drexel grads, some Penn State grads and even a U-Wyoming grad. One of the tech managers is from the engineering powerhouse of Loyola College of Maryland.</p>
<p>Not to say 20 years in the industry trumps anything that folks say on this board because I know NOTHING about funded M.S. programs but I think some folks will need to get in the workforce for a few years to see how the industry REALLY works as it pertains to hiring, recruiting, and grad school admissions.</p>
<p>Hmm, I don’t see Qualcomm/Analog device/Intel and etc.</p>
<p>@anggieengineer
I highly doubt you got admission letter from UT Austin/Gatech. If you indeed chose Texas A&M over UT Austin, you are one hell of mamas boy who choose to be with your family (who needs to be tucked in bed every night) over your career outcome/quality of education. Stop lying to yourself and to the forum.</p>
<p>@Boneh3ad
Well first of all, I didn’t know you were pursuing PhD at TAMU. You should give more information regards to TAMU.</p>
<p>So let me ask you a question? If you got admitted to Phd program from UT Austin/Gatech/UIUC and TAMU, would you choose TAMU over UT Austin/Gatech/UIUC? </p>
<p>You went to UIUC undergrad and since you cant get into UIUC grad school, you decided to go to TAMU instead. Well least I didn’t downgrade my undergraduate degree by going to grad school lesser rank like you have done.</p>
<p>Gatech and TAMU both are great engineer schools but I think Gatech is better in terms of degree power just like UT Austin’s degree is better known and recognized within Texas than TAMU. If you want to know more about specific major and what type of research opportunity you can find at Gatech, let me know what major you want to pursue. I will tell you in more detail.</p>
<p>Dude, aerospace and mechanics at A&M is damn good. Everyone knows that. A lot of people have conflict over A&M and UT because they’re rivals and at my school people do choose A&M for whatever reason over UT. It’s not really thought of as this terrible school in rank, no more worse than UT. They’re kinda interchangeable to me except one’s in the middle of nowhere and the other’s in Austin.</p>
<p>Get over it, did you really only go to Georgia Tech for rank? I didn’t even apply to schools I figured I wouldn’t be happy at personally, which included GT. If your happy there than great but there’s no need to try to bring down other schools people. Unless you are unhappy. Which would explain a lot. Just type something with the letter “e” to hint, no need for you to say it out right.</p>
<p>I bet most companies do not look at these detailed rankings when they recruite. The reputation and alumina network play a bigger role.</p>
<p>Excuse me, I am top 1% of my graduating class of over 1000, and I certainly did get admission from Ga. Tech and UT Austin, chemical engineering to be exact. Seriously, quit embarrassing yourself and your school by making foolish comments like this. I would love to take you seriously, but instead you are acting like a jerk. I have no reason to be lying to a bunch of people I do not know.</p>
<p>Can we just all ignore CSMajor5 already? Has he ever contributed anything valuable to any of these threads?</p>
<p>I am embarrassed for Georgia Tech if he is actually in the program.</p>
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<p>Wow, what a brilliantly asinine post! I think you may have outdone yourself this time!</p>
<p>Let’s make this clear, the grad schools I got into are:
Illinois
Purdue
Georgia Tech
RPI
Maryland
Texas A&M
Cornell</p>
<p>Would you like me to fax you the acceptance letters to prove it? I may have a few still laying around somewhere.</p>
<p>So, if I got into UIUC/GaTech and TAMU would I choose TAMU? Yes. Why? Because for starters, they don’t do anything like the kind of research I do here at either school. My advisor is one of the top minds in the world in my field of study, which is a claim that none of those schools except Purdue could make, and I wanted out of the Midwest for a bit.</p>
<p>I didn’t stay at UIUC because, when working on graduate degree, except in very specific circumstances, it is usually not a good idea to go to your undergrad institution. This concept is known as academic inbreeding, and has a propensity to produce engineers who lack the breadth that can be gained by going to different schools to get different perspectives on a subject.</p>
<p>You really are a sad character. I feel bad for whoever eventually has to work with you in industry, as your narrow mindedness no doubt makes you horrible to work with in a team setting, and even if you are technically brilliant, that is not even close to being able to make up for a complete lack of any tact or inability to get along with others.</p>
<p>US News ranking is far from everything. In fact, it is a VERY obtuse measure of school quality. It is so inherently subjective that, while it does place many schools in roughly the right place, and tends to get more accurate near the top, it is far from being the end-all decider that some people, you being one of the worst, like to claim. If you want to base your opinion of a school and an individual based solely on one possible (and flawed) formula that a magazine came up with, then be my guest. That is your loss, and you will likely lose out on many potential friends and life experience as a result of it.</p>