First of all big congrats on Cornell. I was crushed when they rejected me, luckily it was my one rejection.
I am currently having to choose between Georgia Tech (nearly free) and Emory (50k/year). I'm not a math/engineering person, while that background would be nice I see myself as an Econ major. I hate to hijack the topic, but I'm in a tough situation as well...
Would YC prefer a non engineering grad from Emory or GT?
You should go to GT without a doubt, literally NO DOUBT in my mind. I'm not even saying GT is better than Emory, I know people at both and are happy, but if the difference is between 200k+ in debt (don't forget rising costs over 4 years!) vs 10-20k, take the smaller one! Imagine you come out of college making 60k a year, by the time you subtract taxes, rent, food, healthcare, car, cell phone bill, ISP bill at home, you will spend 10 years paying off that debt. It will NEVER be worth it. Seriously break down average pay for your degree, guesstimate your bills after college, and figure out how much it will cost you. My girlfriend and I both make over 60k, we had only a combined 50k in loans, and it is still will take 2 years to pay off. If you are doing it alone with 4 times that amount, forget it.
Second, more people know GT than Emory anyway. I only know Emory because a neighbor went there.
Third, if you get a graduate degree, it will completely over run your undergrad degree anyway. My dad went to a shitty (so shitty it no longer exists) state school in west virginia, and got C's. He then went to work for 10 years, then got an MBA from a good business school. Now he is the CEO of a 160 million a year company. Does anyway care about his undergrad degree? Hell no. Do they care about the MBA? Definitely more than the undergrad, you can't sit at most of the interviews if you don't have an MBA. But the only thing they REALLY care about is his performance ON THE JOB.
Remember, your undergrad degree only gets you the first interview. It might seem huge from high school, but you will eventually realize that teachers only hype it to motivate you in high school. it doesn't matter that much in the business world.
thanks, the major thing pulling at me is that I just see Emory as so much more conducive to my personality. I don't think I would stand out at Emory like I would at GT. I suppose I just need to push myself.
All you need to have a great four years are 5-10 people like you. In a school of thousands the problem is not are there 10 people I can be friends with happily, but in FINDING those 10 people. Join the clubs that interest you and meet those people and you will have fun anywhere.
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First of all big congrats on Cornell. I was crushed when they rejected me, luckily it was my one rejection.
I am currently having to choose between Georgia Tech (nearly free) and Emory (50k/year). I'm not a math/engineering person, while that background would be nice I see myself as an Econ major. I hate to hijack the topic, but I'm in a tough situation as well...
Would YC prefer a non engineering grad from Emory or GT?
You should go to GT without a doubt, literally NO DOUBT in my mind. I'm not even saying GT is better than Emory, I know people at both and are happy, but if the difference is between 200k+ in debt (don't forget rising costs over 4 years!) vs 10-20k, take the smaller one! Imagine you come out of college making 60k a year, by the time you subtract taxes, rent, food, healthcare, car, cell phone bill, ISP bill at home, you will spend 10 years paying off that debt. It will NEVER be worth it. Seriously break down average pay for your degree, guesstimate your bills after college, and figure out how much it will cost you. My girlfriend and I both make over 60k, we had only a combined 50k in loans, and it is still will take 2 years to pay off. If you are doing it alone with 4 times that amount, forget it.
Second, more people know GT than Emory anyway. I only know Emory because a neighbor went there.
Third, if you get a graduate degree, it will completely over run your undergrad degree anyway. My dad went to a shitty (so shitty it no longer exists) state school in west virginia, and got C's. He then went to work for 10 years, then got an MBA from a good business school. Now he is the CEO of a 160 million a year company. Does anyway care about his undergrad degree? Hell no. Do they care about the MBA? Definitely more than the undergrad, you can't sit at most of the interviews if you don't have an MBA. But the only thing they REALLY care about is his performance ON THE JOB.
Remember, your undergrad degree only gets you the first interview. It might seem huge from high school, but you will eventually realize that teachers only hype it to motivate you in high school. it doesn't matter that much in the business world.
thanks, the major thing pulling at me is that I just see Emory as so much more conducive to my personality. I don't think I would stand out at Emory like I would at GT. I suppose I just need to push myself.
All you need to have a great four years are 5-10 people like you. In a school of thousands the problem is not are there 10 people I can be friends with happily, but in FINDING those 10 people. Join the clubs that interest you and meet those people and you will have fun anywhere.
> Would YC prefer a non engineering grad from Emory or GT?
Stop conforming. Immediately.
Why would anyone align their college decision with YC?
edit: presumably, this was tongue-in-cheek(?)
T'was not a very serious question.