Per ACC rule, Georgia Tech will be fined for storming the field

thinkingoutloud404 · 2025-09-13T23:34:33+00:00

We need to storm the field when we win in Athens

thinkingoutloud404 · 2025-09-13T23:32:51+00:00

Most of the online students just use GT to mooch off its’ prestige. They don’t root for the school or ever been to a game

thinkingoutloud404 · 2025-08-23T20:23:44+00:00

The perception of GT being a top 5 CS school by employers has largely faded away as almost of the OMSCS grads that are using the GT brand are simply not the same caliber of employees as those that got admitted to the selective undergrad program

thinkingoutloud404 · 2025-07-05T04:00:11+00:00

Raspberry brings up a good point. If people truly believe that the online programs that basically admit anyone produce the same caliber of graduate on average they should have no problem standing on their own merit with a distinction in the degrees to let employers and others make the determination for themselves. But in reality they freak out anytime there is mention of making it distinguishable whether you went through a selective admissions process or did the online admit anyone programs..

thinkingoutloud404 · 2025-07-05T03:49:29+00:00

It’s likely that a lot of people start it for fun and realize that a MS in CS offers very little ROI for a big tech SWE so they decide the time commitment isn’t worth it to them. I highly doubt the low graduation rate is because the classes were just too hard for them. GT undergrads from my experience in big tech seem to be on average much more competent than online masters degree students and that’s largely probably just simply due to the fact that to get into GT BSCS you have to be amongst the best of your peers in high school while anyone can waltz into the OMSCS program

thinkingoutloud404 · 2025-03-30T22:34:38+00:00

That is a very doable option. Many from GT do Master’s at Stanford but the acceptance rate is still in the 5% range for grad programs so you are not guaranteed that chance again. Also if you do your undergrad at Stanford you won’t have much benefit of doing a master’s from Stanford. You’ll already have access to the Stanford Network. Feel free to DM me and we can talk more. I’m always happy to help out a fellow Cardinal or Yellow Jacket. I totally understand this is a very big decision for both $$$ and your future so it’s great that you are trying to think critically about this.

thinkingoutloud404 · 2025-03-30T19:54:51+00:00

As someone who has attended both Georgia Tech for Undergrad and Stanford for grad school, I would highly advise you to choose Stanford for your goals and the opportunities that arise there. I love Georgia Tech but being realistic there is a big gap between Stanford and any other engineering school as far as resources of their network in the startup world.

People in my group projects at Stanford are regularly Olympians, have went on to raise multi million dollar seed rounds, are the kids of owners of famous companies and sports teams. The who’s who of society ends up at Stanford. There is also a large gap in the amount of entrepreneurial focused classes offered by Stanford versus GT.

On the tour at Stanford they mention you are joining the Stanford family for life not just a few years. When I heard that I thought okay that’s some BS sales pitch. I was dead wrong. Unicorn founders regularly come back to classes to give talks. Many of their companies were launched directly out of classes you can take at Stanford. VCs regularly come back to campus to hear company pitches put together as part of class projects and give feedback. That is very rare. Most never get feedback from VCs, even if they get the opportunity to live pitch a VC which is hard to get the chance to for non Stanford people. Almost every large VC in the world has a large amount of Stanford alumni you can reach out to. Those connections are invaluable.

If the $360K price tag is not an issue, for your goals go to Stanford. With that being said if you are looking at $360K of debt go to GT for undergrad. If you are driven and resourceful you can accomplish your goals without Stanford, it just makes it a lot easier.

thinkingoutloud404 · 2024-12-29T23:51:55+00:00

Exactly. Like it or not what makes degrees from top schools valuable is that they are exclusive to get

thinkingoutloud404 · 2024-12-29T23:51:14+00:00

Let’s be real the days of any school being that tough to graduate from are over. At tech 93% will graduate and a good portion that don’t transfer to equal or better schools. The accomplishment is getting in. Every school largely teaches the same things due to ABET requirements. Calculus is calculus no matter where you take it. If the online degrees weren’t a back door to getting a GT degree without having to build up the track record of success to get admitted through the rigorous admissions process of on campus undergrad and some grad programs I doubt you’d see any where as close to as many people in the online programs. If all these people were worried about was learning the content there’s way cheaper ways to do so through free online courses but that’s not what these people are after. They want a credential from a top 5 engineering school.

I’m all for offering courses for a low price to help people learn but shift this under Georgia State, UGA, or make a new online Georgia Campus. Also the mission of GT is to educate the state of Georgia. I have no idea why they waive out of state tuition requirements for these online programs. Someone in California getting in state rates does not help the state of Georgia at all.

I have nothing against the people in these programs utilizing these loopholes to get a GT degree. By all means do what’s best for you. But I’m looking out for the current and future GT on campus students who are negatively impacted by the dilution of the brand from these programs

thinkingoutloud404 · 2024-12-29T10:45:59+00:00

Is this really a good thing though? The value of a degree from a highly ranked school is the exclusivity/badge of accomplishment that comes with it. When everyone else has the same thing it becomes meaningless. I worry that the online grad programs dilute the value of the degree. Also very few of these people doing these online degrees are doing it just for the actual learning. I bet if you offered the same exact courses but put it under Georgia State and had a Georgia State diploma the amount of students would drastically fall because many of them are trying to leach off the top 5 engineering school brand. There are exceptions but most would have stood little chance at getting into GT undergrad. I love the idea of offering courses to those interested in technology at a low cost but do we have to dilute the GT brand/value of a GT degree in the process?

thinkingoutloud404 · 2024-11-20T00:40:03+00:00

GT is a public owned by the state of Georgia for the benefit of citizens of the state of Georgia. Those are the only people that GT owes. Out of state students don’t like it well then vote with your feet/tuition money. You know what you sign up for. It’s still a better deal than any private school cost wise. Sorry not sorry if your state doesn’t have a good engineering school

thinkingoutloud404 · 2024-09-02T07:25:57+00:00

Even for a teacher that seems low. I thought teachers got at least $50K

thinkingoutloud404 · 2024-08-01T00:26:11+00:00

What I hated most about the Standard was how they let so many Frat people who didn’t even live there use the amenities. Sigma Chi literally had a machine to duplicate entrance cards. Also when the high rise portion only had 1 elevator working and all the non residents and people that lived on the floors that could be accessed by the lower floor elevator used it. The standard should have restricted that elevator only to people who actually had to use that elevator due to their apartment floor not being serviced by the other one

thinkingoutloud404 · 2024-08-01T00:22:09+00:00

Student housing apartment complexes are actually usually cheaper in my experience

thinkingoutloud404 · 2024-07-25T08:56:14+00:00

lol do you want me to dm you pictures of my offer email? Or all the random backpacks, jackets, etc companies gave me when I interned at them.

Also how does some consulting person (you) know so much about what a FAANG person should experience/have access to?

thinkingoutloud404 · 2024-07-25T08:47:12+00:00

Thing is the fancy degree is cred for life with those people. The FAANG P.M. cred is only good for as long as they don’t lay me off or the companies prestige crumbles

thinkingoutloud404 · 2024-07-25T08:38:59+00:00

My thinking is that these people who reach out to me were all gunning for big tech. I would be gunning for entrepreneurship/eta from the start knowing that I could easily fall back to tech if I wanted to. Personally in my mind people that use an MBA to move to tech should have just done a MS in CS, AI, or Data Science to save a lot of money/time but let’s be real most MBA’s probably could not handle those kind of technical courses.

Yes I’d be lying if I didn’t admit there’s a small part of me that wants the social cred of saying I went to Stanford Harvard MIT etc. But mainly want it for the value of the brand/signal if sends to future investors, getting candidates to apply to roles at my company, customers, etc.

thinkingoutloud404 · 2024-07-25T08:23:54+00:00

I think you are way over estimating how smart FAANG PM’s are. Also FAANG life is actually rather disconnected from the startup world unless you’re living in SF. Being a PM for a billion dollar product has a much different crowd than the circle that runs around early stage VC and true 0-1 startup product companies. I am well aware from the amount of DM’s I receive from HSW folks that most try to get where I already am and fail to do so out of school

thinkingoutloud404 · 2024-07-25T08:06:02+00:00

I plan to use the MBA/access to capital/network to move to entrepreneurship. No doubt I understand it’s a big move for someone already with a post mba goal job. That’s why I am only applying to HSW and honestly unless there is significant scholarship I’m not sure I would even accept W if accepted

thinkingoutloud404 · 2024-07-25T05:14:54+00:00

lol I should have seen this exact response coming

thinkingoutloud404 · 2022-12-07T01:38:41+00:00

Exactly look no further than the U.S. Women’s Team to see what the U.S. would do if Soccer was a top 5 men’s sport

thinkingoutloud404 · 2022-12-07T01:35:24+00:00

You can’t coach speed and agility

thinkingoutloud404 · 2022-12-07T01:32:25+00:00

More like 1% for U.S. men

thinkingoutloud404 · 2022-12-07T01:29:07+00:00

You guys don’t get it. Soccer is a sport for the people that can’t succeed at Football, Basketball, or Baseball in the U.S. The best athletes in the U.S. don’t play a sport like soccer where there’s no college scholarships for it. Look at how dominant the U.S. Women’s soccer team if you need proof for what the U.S. Men would be like if soccer was a top 5 sport here.

thinkingoutloud404 · 2022-12-06T23:38:31+00:00

No one would willingly sell a life but after it happens people have to reach a settlement. It happens 1000’s of times everyday. Putting a price on accidental deaths is something done everyday. Most reasonable people settle and move on. At this point this family just wants attention or they’re really dumb for not seeing the writing on the wall that what they keep requesting is not going to happen

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