This is very much a question for April. I think you should go visit the schools you get into an make a determination for yourself. Your experience will be unique from everyone else's. You're also in-state. Is money an issue for you? Do you feel the "prestige" of other schools is worth the lifelong debt? Ultimately it's up to you to decide.
#GT/Stanford/MIT/Cornell
uneven hill
hazy falcon
Our EE program is good for most fields and we feed into a lot of large industries that I think you can safely eliminate Duke. Cornell, Stanford, and MIT you will want to wait on aid package
This also depends a lot on what industry you wanna get into, for some fields we definitely beat those.
First year swap for free
Functionally declaring major is for stat tracking purpose
You can swap into CS now I think
As a first year
Not sure, CS keep changing it
Either way, most majors are really easy to swap in, first year just skip most of the paperworks
You should explore by taking classes
Not by switching major lol
That's so much work just to explore
Take EE classes, take ChemE classes, see which you like
You can apply for permit if it's an upper div class
Major matters for upper division courses
But most 1000-2000 level are open or very easy to get into if you communicate with an advisor before registration
Like a blanket override for you to take a class
Either it's not from your major or you somehow don't meet prerequisite
who knows
some people can, some people won't know until their 3rd year
that's life
Delay grad and swap major, yeah
It's better to delay grad than grind through to work in a field that you don't like
What's another year of college vs 30 years of unfulfilling work?
Why do you like EE anyways?
In terms of what? Placement rate?
Our ECE curriculums are pretty good
We have pipeline into most major part of semiconductor, a LOT of people in this school go into Apple
We have a very solid analogue electronic curriculum with some star professors
We also have the best chip design club in the country rn
If you're interested in that
Us and Cornell
In the AI side yeah, but ur EE so that's not a concern for you anyways
uneven hill
another thing is you can search up the required classes for each major at gt
hazy falcon
^
uneven hill
then see which ones you would be most interested in
a lot of people go into majors not knowing what it entails unfortunately
hazy falcon
Based on like sheer placement rate and pay, EE and CompE are our best eng majors
Unless CS count, then CS eeks out, but I assume ur not interested in HW
I meant to say SW
Software
Very basic stuff
uneven hill
they are but you're not gonna be making big bucks like in ECE or CS
I made this a while back but I think it will be helpful for you
What courses do I need to take?
ME/NRE: https://me.gatech.edu/mechanical-engineering-curriculum
AE: https://ae.gatech.edu/undergraduate-curriculum
EE: https://ece.gatech.edu/electrical-engineering-degree
CompE: https://ece.gatech.edu/computer-engineering-degree
MSE: https://mse.gatech.edu/undergraduate-program/bachelor-of-science
ChBE: https://www.chbe.gatech.edu/undergraduate-curriculum
CE: https://prod.ce.gatech.edu/academics/undergraduate/bsce
EnvE: https://prod.ce.gatech.edu/academics/undergraduate/bsenve
ISYE: https://www.isye.gatech.edu/academics/undergraduate#curriculum
BME: https://bme.gatech.edu/academics/undergraduate-programs
General Georgia Tech Catalog: (great resource!!!)
https://catalog.gatech.edu/programs
https://catalog.gatech.edu/coursesaz/
Contains information about every single program and course.
hazy falcon
i mean if u think ur good, you should aim higher than median
top ECE grads are in the upper 200k range
hazy falcon
ehh
CompE is a bit of hardware, a bit of mandatory comparch, and a bit of software
EE is primarily hardware
twilit parrot
CompE is a bit of hardware, a bit of mandatory comparch, and a bit of software
Personally, I feel that CompE, as a field of engineering, is one of the least "unique." If you look at the curriculum, a third of the threads are EE, a third of the threads are CS, and two of the three CompE threads are just fancy CS stuff (cybersecurity and software system) And CHEA is pretty much just applied EE.
Not saying that CompE is bad, per se, I think that its pretty neat, but it's just not "unique."
not really. BME is a bit more focused on the med part. You'll find more medical stuff than mech or ee stuff.
twilit parrot
Our EE program is good for most fields and we feed into a lot of large industrie...
I mean, for MIT or Stanford, the higher cost might be worth it if they want to branch out into fields like quant/startup/other fancier stuffs that make more money than traditional engineering jobs. Cornell is good if they give good aid imo
if you dont want to go to either school then you prolly shouldnt apply
I mean, have you visited those schools and made sure you don't like them?
I mean georgia tech is pretty much equal with CMU in terms of meche and ee
Caltech is a give or take but it is pretty focused and a bit small so if you don't like that then ig not
i mean, applying is fun, if you get in it is bragging rights ig
its a grindy tech school with a bunch of sweaty nerds\