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By: This is Difficult at Exposay

This is Difficult at Exposay — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:33:50 +0000

[...] with tour guide Kyle, member of Exposay. Also, Wednesday the 15th, I’ll be paying RPI a visit. I’ll announce more visiting dates as they’re [...]

By: Ricky

Ricky — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:49:52 +0000

I’m not worrying yet. I’m worrying about not knowing about whether to focus on tech schools or universities.

I’m highly leaning toward the latter, but that sways depending on whom I talk to, since I’ve been talking to plenty of geeks at the Academy recently.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:42:34 +0000

I think I’ve said this to you before, Ricky, but it bears repeating: Don’t worry about the scholarship money too much at this point. My safety schools made a big deal about merit scholarships and my need-based aid from Amherst turned out to be the same or more than any of them. (Of course Amherst has a reputation for being generous, as you know, but most aid packages computed with the fasfa will be somewhat similar.)

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:15:40 +0000

So I’ll add UConn to my list, maybe

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:52:56 +0000

Oh, yeah, good (i.e.- The name doesn’t start with SUNY) public universities tend to offer more in scholarships while costing less. UConn is 15 grand less than RPI, and I got 19 grand a year in scholarships/grants. All the while having someone who worked on a nobel prize winning team teach me basic chem. They go a little crazy at pulling really good faculty, too.

By: ProfMike789

ProfMike789 — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:47:59 +0000

How the frick did you frickin get this scholarship?!?
Since I’m a-lookin’ for a Doctorate in Mathematics (or Philosophical Mathematics if they have it) I’d a-go there in a heartbeat if I had that there scholarship. Is it transferrable? lol jk

Seriously though. I want that mon-ay.

I was also thinkin’ aboot Columbia, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, U. of Rochester, Colgate, and NYU (to go hang with my kind of crowd… HAHA)

Cornell has the luxury of freeze-your-ass-off the other colleges just don’t seem to offer.

I also haven’t counted out colleges in Canada & Britain…
but I haven’t researched any, either.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:46:03 +0000

You’re better off at a university. More of a choice of majors, in case what you thought you wanted to do isn’t really what you want to do. Also, any major you can do at a tech school will get you hired no matter where you go. Look at it this way- University for your 4 year degree, tech school for any grad work. Besides, the people at a tech school are, uhhh… Well, they go to a tech school. Yeah, socialization isn’t the point of college, but without a decent social life, you’ll go completely loco faster than you can say “integration by parts”.

By: RRosenkranz

RRosenkranz — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:24:34 +0000

Honestly, if it were me, I’d go. But you are you and not me. The way I see it is you were given an oppritunity to attend one of the most top rated engineering schools in the country.

It’s up to you where you want to go, but one advatage is you will enter the work force with money in your pocket. What other universities/colleges are you looking at? Another advantage is this shows you will get excepted to other top schools.

If you’d like, my dad is an engineer and would love to debate the topic, I can ask him if you’d like.