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[ShooterMcGavin]

Well when I said in an earlier post that people change schools/aren't prepared for schools all the time, and that that was not an exclusively Tech thing, and Kyle comes back with "I guess it has nothing to do with the curriculum here", then it DOES make him just as much of a pompous ass as all the people that give that school that reputation. Reputations don't just materialize out of nowhere.. Tech's reputation of being a bunch of snobby pricks didn't come from nowhere, just like UGA's party school reputation didn't come from nowhere.

your denial that curriculum has something to do w/it doesn't make kyle an asshole...kyle w/the personality he has makes him a pompous asshole for the record, tech DOES NOT have a reputation of being a bunch of snobby pricks, far from it, most ppl there are hardcore nerds so get ya shit right

I'm not denying the fact that Tech is a difficult school... but Kyle is being an ass... earlier in this thread he called me a dumb whore... he doesn't know me, and he doesn't know that I got accepted to Tech. So yeah... this dumb whore is just as smart as he is I guess. I chose not to go to Tech because I liked the wide array of majors at UGA better, and I'm glad I made that decision... I went to UGA intending to major in International Business, minoring in Spanish, and wanting to go on to law school. With that program, yes, Tech would have been a better school for me to go to, but I liked the electives and stuff I could take at UGA, and I thought UGA was a better fit for me. I'm glad I did that, because I took Art History as an elective, and realized that I really didn't want to do law school... art was something I had loved for my whole life, and I decided to pursue an art education. When I looked at what I wanted to do, Tech was once again a candidate... they have an Industrial Design program, as does SCAD... I applied to SCAD and re-applied to Tech (I had been at UGA for 2.5 years). I got into Tech again, even with their harder admission criteria than it was in 2002 when I graduated HS, and also got into SCAD. I looked at both programs and decided that SCAD was the one that was a better fit for me.

why feel the need to defend your decision not to go to tech? i mean who really cares? who are you trying to prove yourself to? and once again, kyle calling ppl names should not be a reflection upon the institute which he attends, i think you're just correlating those two since it's easier to play down tech's reputation that way

I'm not trying to say Tech is an easy school, but there are hundreds of colleges out there that are much more academically rigorous.. Check on Princeton Review... not listed on the Hardest To Get Into list, which has the likes of MIT, Brown, Harvard, etc on it... definitely not on the party school list, which uga is #12 on

The lists Tech IS on, according to Princeton Review?

#2 - Class Discussions Rare
#9 - Low Marks on Professors (based on student feedback)
#14 - Professors Make Themselves Scarce

It is on the list of Best Colleges of the Southeast, which isn't surprising.

Academics aren't the sole purpose of college life. It's the whole experience that makes college what it is.

And by the way, Kyle, if you still think I'm dumb, consider this... Princeton is #2 on the list of Hardest To Get Into.... I got accepted there, too... Dad couldn't afford it at the time. Might wanna find out a little more about someone before you judge them to be a dumb whore. I know all I need to know about you to know that you're a pompous ass. K thanks.

but yes, you really kinda are, all these arguments have been for other schools, how well they're tailored to different ppls goals in life. you know what, that's wonderful, really, but the fact is, tech is a good ass school for engineering/math/science. you can quote the princeton review all you want but by the same standard, i can quote to you how many yrs in a row now tech has been in the top whatever public schools as rated by us news and world report, and how many times their engineering programs show up in the top 5.

easy to get into? maybe compared to some, but you know what's one thing they probably don't take into account? how easy or hard it is it GET OUT, with a degree. and just to clarify, academics ARE the sole purpose of life for some ppl, don't generalize what YOU think other ppl want in their college experience.