#UW-Seattle CS vs. Georgia Tech CompE vs. UCLA Pre-Stats Data Science vs. UMichEngineering

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proud thorn
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Personal Details:

Domestic Student from WA
Full Pay - Price considered but not the main concern (no debt parents paying everything)
Best for industry/career
Work Hard Play Hard + Collaborative Culture

Georgia Tech 53k/yr with everything
Pros:

collaborative Culture
Relevatively cheap compared to other options
Top 5 engineering program
Great opportunities and connections
Threads
Good flexibility

Cons:
Farther away from tech hubs like seattle
Farther away from home
More expensive compared to in-state option (53 vs 38k)

UCLA 85k/yr with everything
Pros:
More socially active
Good food
Decent Stats program
Near bigger tech hub

Cons:
competitive and cutthroat
Very expensive
Program is not top top
Placements a bit spotty from what I've heard

Michigan 85k/yr with everything
Pros:
More socially active
Engineering flexibility (FYE program)
Great football (this is just a plus)
Overall strong school, great alumni network

Cons:
expensive
Program is good, but GT is better for eng
Far away from tech hub

UW-Seattle CS 38k/yr with everything
Pros:

Tech Hub
Strong CS brand, im in the top branch at the school
In state so not as expensive as other options
know a ton of people, closer to home

Cons:
Not sure if i want to do CS
Limited flexibility (cant switch easily)

Overall i think since I applied to different majors its up to what I want to do in the end, and even after more research I genuinly do not know. I haven't really done too much in high school so probably good flexibility across STEM is pretty important.

tawdry copper
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Congrats. No bad options. Take the cheapest, either Gatech or uw

proud thorn
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i have kinda narrowed it down to those two, but i just left the other on just in case

tawdry copper
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Btw Georgia is a hub for aerospace so Gatech is not objectively worse than uw for their respective majors

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Never been to Georgia myself but I liked uw

proud thorn
tawdry copper
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Overall i think since I applied to different majors its up to what I want to do in the end, and even after more research I genuinly do not know.
The struggle

proud thorn
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i think UW its hard to transfer out of CS unless i want a general a&s degree and I want to explore hardware and software to have a degree of optionality

proud thorn
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i think im slightly leaning GT right now

tawdry copper
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Yeah ME and CS are both challenging to get into from other majors

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Since you have narrowed down the schools and the majors, you can create a course plan and see how much room you have for non-required electives

proud thorn
tawdry copper
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Have you tried working backwards from job postings? Like go to Lockheed or Amazon or Chevron or openai or bytedance's job site and look at what's interesting?

proud thorn
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Most of the compe stuff I’ve noticed is embedded LLP

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And CS is pretty much accepted for any roles

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(I’m in Seattle tho so it’s pretty tech focus)

tawdry copper
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Are you near an engineering library? You can also look at some of the magazines for some of the cool projects in both fields.

proud thorn
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I’ll also do some more research into the compe threads at Georgia tech

tawdry copper
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Idk the online equivalents. Ieee spectrum is the ee version

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I nearly went with mechanical because of a fascinating article on detergent bottles lol. Reduce material usage but keep the strength so they can be shipped on pallets.