The Georgia Institute of Technology

-Georgia Tech is well known for engineering mostly in the South. Even worse, a non-engineering degree from Tech is worthless in any other part of the country. No one seems to what kind of school Tech is, other than that it has a football/basketball program.

-Coursework is quite challenging if you're the sort who likes to mix a social life with your academic life. If you want to do well, expect to spend 10+ hrs/wk on classwork and study on top of everything else.

-Greek life provides somewhat of a social scene by helping out with the men/women ratio. Other than that, expect to go downtown for a decent night life. The male/female ratio is completely out of whack...unless you're a female student.

-You will know within the first week of a common saying that in your dorm room, the guy on your left and on your right will drop out by the end of the first year. Attrition rate is very high during the first two years. The people who'd hung around until graduation will most likely find a decent engineering job. Other than engineering and CS, don't have high expectation if you move out of the South, i.e. NY, New England, West Coast, etc.,.

-Professors are hit and miss, some will help, some are elusive, some will brush you off with indirect answers or refer to a graduate assistant, some just plain don't care if you pass or fail. All will expect your highest intellect to be devoted to their class, just as you are expected to hold your own with some very smart kids.-Overall, if engineering is your cup of tea and you have the patience of working through 4-5 yrs of challenging work, you will certainly learn a few things about engineering. If you are the liberal arts or management type, I suggest another school that is more rewarding and better known in these categories.

4th Year Male -- Class 2001

Perceived Campus Safety: A, Useful Schoolwork: F

Ga. Tech is not one of those schools where someone is going to hold your hand and root you on while you study. There are no free rides here, and not a whole lot of support. You may have been the resident genius in high school with a 1600 SAT and a 4.0 GPA, but once you come to Tech, you will be average at best. This place will tear you down, humble you, and then your successes will buoy you up again. If you want it bad enough, you will learn more here than any other University in the Southeast (and believe me, I know, because I transferred to Tech from another University) Why do you learn more at Tech? Because you pretty much taught it to yourself. The pace is what is so mind boggling, it never lets up. Rarely do people at this school graduate on a 4 year plan. Only a few people actually do graduate in 4 years (they are the 190 and above IQ's with organizational skills Bill Gates wishes he had, not the run of the mill 160 IQ's that Tech gets a lot of). You have to be more than smart; you have to be high energy, and great at managing your time.

If you want to go to an impressive school where they hold your hand and guarantee you an A for your efforts, then go to Harvard. If you want a degree in the Sciences or Engineering fields, and you want to beat out every other applicant for the jobs you apply, go to Tech, and stop whining.

5th Year Female -- Class 2003

Education Quality: A+, Perceived Campus Safety: D+