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<blockquote data-quote="forensicbuzz" data-source="post: 864885" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>You're painting with a pretty broad brush and coloring outside the lines of this conversation. No one ever said anything about the best fit for a kid not being somewhere else. My comment was that a kid saying "I'm not going there because Tech doesn't have my major" is bull****. There's a path to essentially any career through Tech.</p><p></p><p>You can get a degree at Tech that will prepare you for ANY career path you want. It may not be the "conventional" path most people think, but, for instance, Chemical Engineering is probably the best pre-med undergraduate degree one could have. I know because that's how I started Tech. The problem is that it's so hard to maintain a high enough GPA to get into med school that very few people choose that path. I agree there are some highly specialized majors (like Fine Arts) that really don't fit with Tech, but, for the most part, these kids aren't coming in looking for that. Your argument falls flat because no one is saying that every kid should go to Georgia Tech. The comment was that using limited degrees as an excuse for our poor recruiting is a cop-out. It is. </p><p></p><p>Now, if you want to talk about the difficulty of programs, that's a different argument and may be valid. The fact that whatever program these athletes are in they're going to be challenged by top-level students around them in their classes is a different argument, as well. It comes down to whether the student-athlete wants to put in the work necessary to get through Tech. I've heard too many student-athletes say that with the support they get, it's just a matter of doing the work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="forensicbuzz, post: 864885, member: 198"] You're painting with a pretty broad brush and coloring outside the lines of this conversation. No one ever said anything about the best fit for a kid not being somewhere else. My comment was that a kid saying "I'm not going there because Tech doesn't have my major" is bull****. There's a path to essentially any career through Tech. You can get a degree at Tech that will prepare you for ANY career path you want. It may not be the "conventional" path most people think, but, for instance, Chemical Engineering is probably the best pre-med undergraduate degree one could have. I know because that's how I started Tech. The problem is that it's so hard to maintain a high enough GPA to get into med school that very few people choose that path. I agree there are some highly specialized majors (like Fine Arts) that really don't fit with Tech, but, for the most part, these kids aren't coming in looking for that. Your argument falls flat because no one is saying that every kid should go to Georgia Tech. The comment was that using limited degrees as an excuse for our poor recruiting is a cop-out. It is. Now, if you want to talk about the difficulty of programs, that's a different argument and may be valid. The fact that whatever program these athletes are in they're going to be challenged by top-level students around them in their classes is a different argument, as well. It comes down to whether the student-athlete wants to put in the work necessary to get through Tech. I've heard too many student-athletes say that with the support they get, it's just a matter of doing the work. [/QUOTE]
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