In addition to UCLA, I am looking at Georgia Tech and UT. After talking to about 5 recent graduates and current students from each school, I have learned that GT has by far the better professors, outcomes, and research and internship opportunities as well as having a better reputation across the engineering world. I really like UCLA, but it is difficult to find reasons to go there as an engineering student. (I am out of state and the cost of UCLA [$65k] is also concerning in comparision to GT and UT [$50k])
Maybe you should just go to GT.
@am2007 I really do want to go to UCLA. Talking to some more students at UCLA I found that it has a lot of opportunites, but you just have to look for them. I think I had a small sample size of experiences which magnified my opinion of each school.
Which UT?
UCLA is an extra $15,000 per year times four years. That is a very expensive price for an attractive location. Every reputable university has a lot of opportunities.
@DadTwoGirls University of Texas at Austin.
I know, especially during these times 15k per year is a bit hard to swallow.
Can’t understand why you’re even thinking about spending $15K/year more for the inferior experience
@mikemac look at my reply to am2007’s comment. At this point, I have aknowledged that the information I got is rather subjective and from too few sources. The only thing now is $15,000 and a better reputation at GT (in the engineering world). However, to me UCLA seems like the best environment for me and I like their student population.
Have you signed up for the Samueli Virtual Q&A sessions? They’re offering a lot of them and the link was sent to your email from the school. That could help.
Yes, I’ve attended all those sessions. I would say I have done my due diligence on all of these schools. Of course there is some information I will never know/be able to get until I actually attend these schools. I suppose the purpose of my post was to get some inside advice/experience.
@Luke1047 I meant the personalized ones with engineering ambassadors which are students and not discover engineering. Those can give a more student centric perspective in answering your questions.
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@10s4life Yes, I’ve talked to a bunch of engineering students from UCLA. I have ultimately picked UCLA.
@Luke1047 Congrats that’s awesome!