fricfrac76.DeleteThis@netzero.net wrote in message ...
> Hello,
>
> I've been accepted to Kettering University in Flint, Michigan. (I've
> also been accepted to UW-Madison, UF, UMCP, & Georgia Tech).
Georgia Tech is good for engineering (and little else) but there is a
huge downside.
http://www.studentsreview.com - More than 50% of the Georgia Tech
students surveyed on this MIT student website say they wish they had
gone to another school. The uncensored comments are overwhelmingly
negative. Students at comparable engineering schools - MIT, Stanford,
Duke and Carnegie-Mellon, and others – seem to like their schools
fine. At U.S. News & World Report, GT ranks at the bottom for freshman
retention, % graduating in six years, and student satisfaction, based
on alumni donations.
http://www.princetonreview.com - In 2002, based on 100,000 interviews
at 345 schools, Georgia Tech rates #2 for the "least happy" student
body in the country, and #4 for professors who "squeeze the life out
of the material." In 2003, Tech was #3 for lousy professors. Tech gets
low rankings in half a dozen other negative categories, as well.
http://www.assessment.gatech.edu/eReports/Negative%20Publicity%20at%20...rgia%20
Georgia Tech's on internal report on the Princeton Review showed GT
students significantly less happy with the quality of their education
and their college experience, than their peers at similar schools.
http://www.geocities.com/gtsux2002/ - This website, by Georgia Tech
students, says it all in its name. The Washington Post article on
Georgia Tech (see links page) is textbook on how Tech treats its
students.
http://www.police.gatech.edu - Georgia Tech is unsafe. For nine years
Atlanta has been ranked by Morgan Quinto in the top three most
dangerous cities in the country and Georgia Tech is located smack in
the middle of one of the city's most dangerous crime areas. In 1999,
Tech was ranked in the top 20 most dangerous college campuses in the
country. A series of articles in the Georgia Tech student newspaper –
The Technique (July 12, Nov. 1, 2002 & Jan 31, March 14 & 21, 2003 -
http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/technique/ ) detail rising campus crime,
including students robbed at gunpoint in dorms and women sexually
assaulted in the student center.
http://www.blackenterprise.com/ExclusivesekOpen.asp?id=106 Black
Enterprise magazine – Jan. 2003 issue – Based on interviews with some
200 African-American professionals and academics, BE picks Atlanta as
a top destination for African-American college students, but redneck
Georgia Tech fails to make the grade. BE lists four Atlanta schools –
three traditionally black schools and Emory - as recommended in the
top 50. BE names half-a-dozen engineering schools as minority
friendly, but not Georgia Tech.
Business Week magazine – Oct. 21, 2002 issue - While Business Week
names its top 30 MBA schools, Georgia Tech was deleted from its
recommended list. It is the only school in the 2000 list to be removed
from the 2002 list. US News followed suit and dropped GT from its top
50 in April 2003. To see how Georgia Tech compares with other business
management programs, go to
www.bschool.com/ussbys.html and see a
side-by-side comparisons of the best business programs in the nation
and world. Georgia Tech does not make a single list, including those,
like Financial Times, that rank the top 100.
Finally, Georgia Tech has raised its out-of-state costs to almost
$25,000 in the last two years, while slashing its operating budget.
That means higher prices, more crowded classrooms, fewer class
offerings and more classes taught by grad students. Tech brags that it
takes five or more years to "get out" – as if from boot camp, making
it more expensive than most private schools. Considering that
Princeton Review ranks GT in the top 20 for lousy professors, dorms
like dungeons, bad food and poor quality of life, out-of-state
students do not get what they pay for.
>> Stay informed about: Tough Choice: Kettering + Scholarship vs. University of Fl.. 
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