Profs, grades, and shafts

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kg01 said:
Hey, look at the positives. You all 'got out'..

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we did. But we lost a lot of good men (and women) out there. Survivor's guilt bro. ;)


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gorcone said:
Yep. One of you three will graduate....

I made it.....and I do not know about the two other guys.
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In FACET, the guy to my left was from Bowden and was a mortician's apprentice before coming to Tech. The girl on my right was the valedictorian from a small Middle Georgia HS. After our Summer Quarter, he went back to Bowden and she transferred out to Middle Georgia. So, I felt I couldn't let them down by not making it out. Actually, he may have made it through Fall Quarter before leaving.
 
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tmhunter52 said:
Damn, that brings back bad memories…😳
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Found out they don’t do that in FASET anymore. My daughter was part of a FASET group of all transfers, most of whom were there from the Conditional Transfer Pathway program for kids of alums and other family members and such. While the kids were off doing their thing and all the families were eating lunch they asked if we remembered that and of course we all nodded and they told us they have stopped doing that as it’s a pretty negative message and they want the students to start off feeling like they belong there. It worked for us but times have changed.
 
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Randy Carson said:
look at the guy to your left...now look at the guy to your right...
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The guy to my right was a friend from another HS in my area, and salutatorian of his class. The guy to my left was valedictorian of his class from Ohio and a President's Scholar. Then there was me...

The funny thing was, my friend ended transferring to UPenn/Wharton after the first year, and the other guy quit college altogether after his sophomore year to go back home and run his family's business.
 

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jojatk said:
Found out they don’t do that in FASET anymore. My daughter was part of a FASET group of all transfers, most of whom were there from the Conditional Transfer Pathway program for kids of alums and other family members and such. While the kids were off doing their thing and all the families were eating lunch they asked if we remembered that and of course we all nodded and they told us they have stopped doing that as it’s a pretty negative message and they want the students to start off feeling like they belong there. It worked for us but times have changed.
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They do it at convocation now.
 

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roadkill said:
GT’s academic prestige is probably higher now than in the days of “look to your right…” and drownproofing. I’m not complaining, although I wouldn’t have minded experiencing today’s academic environment. Maybe I wouldn’t have to repeat eMag and Thermo courses today. The problem I would have is that I likely wouldn’t be admitted now with my high school grades and test scores. GT has become more selective on the front end, as opposed to during a student's matriculation.
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Has there been grade inflation in Georgia high schools so kids can get the Hope? SAT is more representative of academic preparation.
 
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roadkill said:
GT’s academic prestige is probably higher now than in the days of “look to your right…” and drownproofing. I’m not complaining, although I wouldn’t have minded experiencing today’s academic environment. Maybe I wouldn’t have to repeat eMag and Thermo courses today. The problem I would have is that I likely wouldn’t be admitted now with my high school grades and test scores. GT has become more selective on the front end, as opposed to during a student's matriculation.
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Totally agree about not getting in today! I just retired from my second career (high school teaching). I have taught a few kids who were accepted and/or attending GT. These are the kind of students who were thinking (or perhaps their parents were) about their secondary education in elementary school. I didn't even start thinking about that until maybe my junior year of HS.

I always tell the ones who are discouraged about not getting in that I only got in bc I was in state, the population was 60% of what it is now, and I was only competing with males to get in, which cut the competition in half again. It was truly a different world back then. I can recall though our FB team having incredible G/W/G uniforms and no uniform debates. Imagine that if you can or will,
 

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g0lftime said:
Has there been grade inflation in Georgia high schools so kids can get the Hope? SAT is more representative of academic preparation.
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You have to ask? I’m in Albany and have had dealings with both the local school system and Albany State. The Hope is a Ponzi scheme for a community like Albany. They give out 3.0’s in high school so the kids can take the money straight to ASU so the school can brag about growth. Meanwhile, the local school system graduates illiterates with 3.0’s so the Hope can be funneled straight to the college. At the end of the process, the student has little marketable skills but the school system and Albany State can point o metrics about graduation rates, GPA’s, Hope, etc. It’s all a joke. Then the local school system hires the college graduates as teachers who are semi-illiterate. It’s why towns like this are simply dying and being totally subsidized by government schemes. For GT students it’s a win though because we save huge money with Hope and graduate with skills to get jobs.
 
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gtee91 said:
There were hard things in EE but the dread of facing those Physics tests when they were just sadistic for no good reason was definitely weed-out games. Of course the modern student apparently doesn't have to deal with this kind of person
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g0lftime said:
Has there been grade inflation in Georgia high schools so kids can get the Hope? SAT is more representative of academic preparation.
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I can say from experience the grade inflation didn't matter when it comes to GT. I know kids with a 4.2 that didn't make it into Tech.

Don't know if anybody had G.P. Neitzel back in the 90s but he was my Fluids professor in 2018 just before he retired. Studied my *** off and went through five pages of work on one particular test. Got it back - it was a 0. Not even a partial credit. The Tech experience is alive and well for the modern student.
 
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gtee91 said:
I later had Dr Wiley for a class...he did not like Stanford at all...he told us that Stanford hated engineers and so unless you were a Physics major, he made it his mission to fail you. He was a different breed of cat.
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I was told that if you get a Physics prof whose name started with a W (Wiley, Wike, or Woodward) that you were OK. That said, Wike shafted me out of an A and I told him so to his face.
 
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