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<blockquote data-quote="gthxxxx" data-source="post: 528211" data-attributes="member: 4310"><p>As I understand, the philosophy of GT for most of its history was to apply lower threshold filtering at the entrance with more stringent filtering during one's higher education. From what I've heard and somewhat supported by acceptance rates reported by U.S News, this is opposite compared to most top 10 engineering schools that are highly selective at admissions (and probably more lenient grading curves?). I personally agree more with GT's way, since it's extremely difficult to evaluate high school students across the nation. However, it does seem both from my experience and word of mouth that GT is easing up on the weed-out culture... which is contributing to the overpopulation of GT and straining of its services in my opinion since fewer students are dropping out.</p><p></p><p>Edit: One quick comparison I'd like to add is MIT's student-faculty ratio of 3:1 [1] vs GT's of 22:1 [2]. One can do a quick rundown of the other top engineering schools, and GT is by far behind in this aspect.</p><p>[1]: <a href="https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-2178" target="_blank">https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-2178</a></p><p>[2]: <a href="https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/georgia-institute-of-technology-1569" target="_blank">https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/georgia-institute-of-technology-1569</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gthxxxx, post: 528211, member: 4310"] As I understand, the philosophy of GT for most of its history was to apply lower threshold filtering at the entrance with more stringent filtering during one's higher education. From what I've heard and somewhat supported by acceptance rates reported by U.S News, this is opposite compared to most top 10 engineering schools that are highly selective at admissions (and probably more lenient grading curves?). I personally agree more with GT's way, since it's extremely difficult to evaluate high school students across the nation. However, it does seem both from my experience and word of mouth that GT is easing up on the weed-out culture... which is contributing to the overpopulation of GT and straining of its services in my opinion since fewer students are dropping out. Edit: One quick comparison I'd like to add is MIT's student-faculty ratio of 3:1 [1] vs GT's of 22:1 [2]. One can do a quick rundown of the other top engineering schools, and GT is by far behind in this aspect. [1]: [URL]https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-2178[/URL] [2]: [URL]https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/georgia-institute-of-technology-1569[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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