2006 high school grads - final college decisions

[robot180]

I am wondering what everyone's final college decisions are and to see if anyone else is going to the same college as me. (I found one person already)

I am going to Georgia Tech to major in Computer Science.

[Timothy D. Ginn]

Congratulations on getting in and making your choice. I'm sure you'll have a great time (I suppose I'm biased toward Computer Science programs, though, being in one myself... going on 3rd year at Queen's University at Kingston (http://www.queensu.ca/). If anyone here is going there I'd love to know and answer questions/what not, feel free to PM or e-mail me).

I'm not sure at what point newly admitted people are allowed to register, but, you could try checking Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/) (many Universities/Colleges have FIRST Alumni groups now and there's threads on Chief Delphi about some of them).

[dubious elise]

I am headed off to The University of Notre Dame in Indiana in the fall and I couldn't be happier. I plan on majoring in either biology or microbiology.

[nehalita]

Off to MIT and planning to do Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science).
Excited as ever.

[MARK]

I'm also off to MIT, but for Mechanical Engineering. !! !!! !!!! ! ! :D

[phrontist]

University of Kentucky - Electrical Engineering

[Adam Shapiro]

Has anyone decided on Cornell as of yet? I know there are a number of people considering it. It's an amazing school, especially for engineering. I'd be happy to chat with anyone interested about it.

[JamesBrown]

Rensselaer for Computer and Systems Engineering.

[Crebb]

Virginia Commonwealth University for mechanical engineering. Only school I applied to.

[Kyle Love]

No Purude yet???? What about Michigan??????

[phrontist]

No Purude yet???? What about Michigan??????

What about it? Who wants to go to school in the frozen north? If you're going to freeze, you might as well live in some groovy canadian city... ;)

[Foss@Team176]

Most likely i will be up in Potsdam, NY at Clarkson studying aero and mechanical engineering

[CyberWolf_22]

I am going to Rice University next year to major in Electrical Engineering.

[Corey Balint]

I'm going to Northeastern for Engineering (undecided).

[Vu2000]

I'm off to MIT too... wondering if we saw each other at CPW. Anywho, I'm open to any major right now, but learning towards either course 2 (mechE) or course 16 (aeroE), but am looking into chemE as well.

Edit: Hey Mark, I did see you. Weren't you with your 3 other classmates, siting in back of me during closing ceremonies at Kresge.

[Salik Syed]

hey I may be going to MIT as well, i was at CPW ... dunno if you saw me or not ... but i was playing guitar at the CPW student welcome thing thursday night

[ScoutingNerd175]

Syracuse University, Electrical or Chemical Engineering. I'm leaning toward Electrical. I am so exited. (My mom got me a large stuffed Orange, It's so happy!) :)

[nehalita]

Wow we have a lot of FIRSTers going to MIT here... is anyone planning to join team 97? I was over there during the cool projects open house (during CPW). Was anyone there?

[MARK]

yeah vu2000. that was me.

[robot180]

That must be the ultimate life...spend all four years of high school in FIRST, learn all of the secrets, apply to MIT, get accepted, join team 97, and be successful as an engineer.

HAHA, I thought I would throw a twist in it: go to Georgia Tech instead of MIT and join an Atlanta team, like 1040, instead of team 97.

[Vu2000]

As of right now, I'm not sure if I am mentoring next year. I need to take some time off and focus the first semester at MIT (there's a reason why they have pass/no record). I will probably help out next year, and then if things go well my first year, I will definitely be a dedicated mentor by sophomore year.

Mark, if I can remember right, I botched your name a couple of times too during the closing ceremonies :)

[slickguy2007]

Wow we have a lot of FIRSTers going to MIT here... is anyone planning to join team 97? I was over there during the cool projects open house (during CPW). Was anyone there?


If you can find the time.... ;)
Congratulations on getting into MIT Nehalita, you deserve it.


GO 1403!!!

[CourtneyB]

Lincoln college in hickville illinios for 2 years then off to purdue for sports marketing major ;)

-Courty-

[Jizvonius]

HAHA, I thought I would throw a twist in it: go to Georgia Tech instead of MIT and join an Atlanta team, like 1040, instead of team 97.


I would suggest joining 1002 that works directly with Tech on campus. btw, check your PM's.

[RoboMadi]

I"m sort of jealous..... Alot of FIRSTers are going to MIT, while i got wait listed for it. agh agh! :(

Anyways, MIT is still the first pick if in any case they reply back, but so far I'm heading to George Mason University (Engineering Undecided).
I do got into Virginia Tech, Boston University, and WPI too.

[Rabbit222]

I wish I got accepted into MIT or Northeastern. I was so close to getting in, but congrats to those who have! However I decided to attend Penn State to major in manufacturing engineering. My major is industrial robot specific. :D I also plan on starting a few teams in the area, if I have time.

[Jaine Perotti]

I applied to only three schools, and was accepted into all of them: RPI, WPI, and University of Miami. All three of them gave me a considerable amount of financial aid/grants/loans, and all three have excellent engineering programs. However, I decided upon the University of Miami for the same reasons that I decided NOT to apply to the Ivy League schools and places like MIT and Caltech.

I believe that I am as bright as any of the people who choose to go to the really prestigious schools, and had it been my goal throughout high school, I could have gotten in and attended those schools. But I am not in love with academics. I am not the type of person who develops a strong passion for receiving perfect grades and test scores. I enjoy learning, but I am not very good at playing the "school game". Managing my time is difficult for me, as is staying organized (gosh darn ADD). Always having a 4.0 average is not my talent, and I never felt the desire to make it the central focus of my high school career. Of course, I always maintained good grades throughout high school (A-/B+/an occasional C), but they weren't perfect. Certainly not the kind of grades that Yale or Harvard would be looking for.

I used to feel bad about the fact that my transcript never seemed to match up with my true potential. However, I now realize that the fact that I DON'T obsess over my GPA means that I would probably HATE being in an environment where every other student was the class valedictorian. This is why I decided that schools like MIT and Princeton were not the right settings for me.

The other reason why I decided against the engineering powerhouse schools because I was interested in being a part of a small engineering program where my professors would know me by name. The University of Miami turned out to be perfect in this aspect because of the size of it's engineering program - only about 200 students in the freshman class. After speaking to many people, and making several visits, I found the atmosphere at the UM College of Engineering to be friendly, nurturing, and almost familial. Not to mention that the engineering program is one of the top 100 in the country. I loved the fact that while I would be working alongside qualified professors and bright students like myself, I would rarely find myself in a high-stress, high-competition situation. Students work TOGETHER on hands on projects, not against each other. Plus, I was enthused by the fact that there has always been 100% job placement for engineering students, and many opportunities exist for hands on undergraduate research.

So, thats my story. I am proud to be a Hurricane and I am totally enthused and excited about the coming four years. My advice: just because a college has a fancy name attached to it, doesn't mean it is the right place for you. If you are not the type of person who enjoys playing the academic "game", look for a college that will nurture you, instead of push you to be a perfect academic.

-- Jaine

[Greg Marra]

I will be a member of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (http://www.olin.edu) (wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olin_College)) Class of 2010.

It's a (relatively) unknown engineering school (although less so among FIRSTers), mostly because it is so new that it is only graduating its first class this year. There are a few other threads about it kicking around on CD if you do a search.

I fell in love with the school's amazing sense of community among students and professors. The small size of the school makes it basically a giant family, where everyone is willing to help each other out and professors get to know you extremely well. I don't think it's the perfect environment for everyone, but I think for someone like me it will be wonderful. The ability to guide my own education instead of falling into a track like I might in the larger, less personal, engineering programs at other schools is really nice.

[Vu2000]

Go Greg! Olin has a large percentage of FIRST'ers, and your the next to join the wonderful school. Plus, Woodie Flowers is a distinguished partner for the college in academics, so this should be a big indicator of the academic program at Olin.

[Dillon Compton]

Congrats to all the MITers, and Greg, good job with Olin- I was going to apply, but I decided not to. Actually, the only "engineering" school I appled to was WPI.

Was accepted at WPI, Hampshire, and Hofstra Honors College.

I'm going to Hampshire College, with the intent to focus on biomimetical engineering & organic computing in robotic systems. They have a fun (albeit small) shop there, and a first-year student just modded an old bridgeport and turned it into a 3-axis CNC. I'll probably be taking some/all of my intro to engineeringish courses at UMASS Amherst or Amherst College, as they both have more "standard" curricula, but I'll be doing most of my Cog. Science and Comp. work at Hampshire, I imagine.

For those of you who dont know, which is probably most, Hampshire College is part of the "Five College" consortium; students at Amherst, Hampshire, UMass Amherst, Smith, and Holyoke are allowed to take courses at any of the colleges for no additional charge. Additionally, every student at Hampshire designs their own major, so you are literally free to do whatever you want with your education.

[Daniel Morse]

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, mechanical engineering

[Sscamatt]

Rochester Institute of Technology - Industrial & Systems Engineering

[Avarik]

University of California Berkeley
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

[pez1959]

I'll be headed off to Winthrop Univeristy in Rock Hill, SC. I plan to double major in Mathematics and Computer Science.

[Ebolagirl]

Yup, so I'm staying in state and going to Texas A&M because that's all I can afford without taking out a billion dollars in loans. But I don't mind, the campus is beautiful, the people are really really nice, and the city isn't huge. I love the atmosphere in College Station. As of now I'm going to be majoring in microbiology, but they also have biomedical engineering, which really interests me too.

[thatphotochick]

as of right now, i'm taking a year off and i might go to college after that. college isn't really for me, but i'll probably actually realize i'll die without it. i'm gonna see if i can help out with my team next year, otherwise i'll just be hanging out and working.

[Scott Shaw 237]

Western New England College for Mechanical Engineering. It's a fairly small campus located in Springfield, mass with a great Engineering program. I loved the school ever since I set foot on campus.

[whakojacko]

School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. Time to get used to cold weather again :(

[Pat McCarthy]

Kettering University for me.
Probably a GM co-op as well. :cool:

[Liz Smith]

School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. Time to get used to cold weather again :(

Yes! Carnegie Mellon! :D Its not that cold...

[Jon236]

Congratulations to all of you graduating this year! Just curious, is anyone (like here at CD) keeping track of where all the grads are going, and whether FIRST influenced their choices?

This is the concrete data that all of us out there trying to get $$ for FIRST activities really need. To show that FIRST does make a difference (we know it does, but we need to prove it to others!).

Jon Mittelman
Team Mentor
Team 236

[nehalita]

Congratulations to all of you graduating this year! Just curious, is anyone (like here at CD) keeping track of where all the grads are going, and whether FIRST influenced their choices?FIRST hasn't influenced my college choice but it has influenced my prospective major choice (from chemE/physicsE/biomedE to EECS or MechE). I've wanted to go to an institute of technology since elementary school...

[Richard Wallace]

Congratulations to all of you graduating this year! Just curious, is anyone (like here at CD) keeping track of where all the grads are going, and whether FIRST influenced their choices?

This is the concrete data that all of us out there trying to get $$ for FIRST activities really need. To show that FIRST does make a difference (we know it does, but we need to prove it to others!).

Jon Mittelman
Team Mentor
Team 236A little off-topic: FIRST commissioned a study a few years ago aimed at getting some data of this type. I got a copy of the summary a few months ago. It did not include a copyright marking, so I guess it's OK to distribute it here (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1828).

[hamrhead226chik]

That's cool.

The same goes for me. FIRST influenced my soon-to-be mechanical engineering major but it didn't influence my college choice. I can't wait though to go to the University of Michigan. :ahh: GO BLUE! :cool:

[KelliV]

I will be going to Columbia College Chicago for Documentary Television.

[FIRSTbrinabot]

I am super excited to be attending WPI next year!!
I will be majoring in Mechanical Engineering and either doubling or minoring in Economics Sciences or Engineering Management.

I anyone else is going to be a freshman next year let me know (aim: brinabot 1302) ...it would be cool to have some friends before the year starts :)

*Sabrina /\ ( ) [ ]

[melissa]

So it's been a struggle to decide between WPI and University of Delaware...but seeing as its time to decide in what like 9 days? I've decided UD for engineering undecided. So if any of you are going next year as well, my sn is MOE365girl, it would be cool to have some friends before I go! :D
~Melissa

[Pat Fairbank]

I've just been accepted to my first choice university, the University of Waterloo, in the Mechatronics Engineering co-op program.

[BoyWithCape195]

Clarkson University- IE&M

[coastertux]

I'm going to Penn State (University Park Campus) next year for Chemistry

[Salik Syed]

Stanford Class of 2010
Studying CS

... turned down MIT ... it was a tough decision

[UngsFree]

Rochester Institute of Technology - Mechanical Engineering Technology (anyone else going there? be nice to get to know some people before moving up there at the end of august.)

[527point]

university of delaware - mech-e

[Bridgette]

I'm going to Northeastern for Electrical Engineering.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Northeastern University - Computer Engineering

I will be living with Corey Balint. Oh, the horror.

[Daniel Brim]

Northeastern University - Computer Engineering

I will be living with Corey Balint. Oh, the horror.Nice to see all of the people going to Northeastern. As I said in the other thread, I will be there as well.

[JamesBrown]

I'm going to Northeastern for Engineering (undecided).

Northeastern University - Computer Engineering

I will be living with Corey Balint. Oh, the horror.

I'm going to Northeastern for Electrical Engineering.

Nice to see all of the people going to Northeastern. As I said in the other thread, I will be there as well.

Looks like 125 will have pleanty of extra help next year.

[Corey Balint]

Looks like 125 will have pleanty of extra help next year.
Yeah, add Three Students from MORT from last year, and two more from this year...looks like 125 will do a killing of some sort.

[Li Jianliang]

I will be attending UC Davis~
PM me if you're going there, too! ^_^

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Yeah, add Three Students from MORT from last year, and two more from this year...looks like 125 will do a killing of some sort.
Let's see what is coming to 125 next year...

Just from 2006..

2 Championship Finalists
2 Division Wins
1 Chairman's Award
4 Regional Wins
2 International Awards (1 Driving Tommorows Technology 1 Innovation In Control)
5 Regional Awards (2 Driving Tommorows Technology, 2 GM Industrial Design, 1 Innovation In Control)


Hmm. :)

[Daniel Brim]

Let's see what is coming to 125 next year...

Just from 2006..

2 Championship Finalists
2 Division Wins
1 Chairman's Award
4 Regional Wins
2 International Awards (1 Driving Tommorows Technology 1 Innovation In Control)
5 Regional Awards (2 Driving Tommorows Technology, 2 GM Industrial Design, 1 Innovation In Control)


Hmm. :)This should be fun :) Anyways, it's also an interesting connection for me. I'm on one team that won the 2001 championship, and will hopefully be involved with another.

[Emily Pease]

Wow, that's great that there are so many FIRSTers coming to NU! I just graduated with my BS in Electrical Engineering but I'm still involved with team 125 as much as I can; I just can't quit!

Just out of curiosity, did you find out about Northeastern from FIRST?

If anyone has any questions about NU or Team 125 or Boston in general, feel free to PM or email me!

[Daniel Brim]

Wow, that's great that there are so many FIRSTers coming to NU! I just graduated with my BS in Electrical Engineering but I'm still involved with team 125 as much as I can; I just can't quit!

Just out of curiosity, did you find out about Northeastern from FIRST?

If anyone has any questions about NU or Team 125 or Boston in general, feel free to PM or email me!Yes I did hear about it through FIRST. Expect a PM soon ;)

[MikeJ675]

Rochester Institute of Technology-Mech. engineering(automotive)

I'll miss 675, but I'm sure there are more teams like the one I'm on near RIT.

[vtrehan]

I got accepted into the University of Waterloo - Electrical Engineering Program (Coop)

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

Well after a completely crazy directional turn-around I'll be attending Northwestern University to double major in Biomedical Engineering & Chemical Engineering.

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