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The University of Oregon charges based on credit hours so more or less its an identical price for any degree (sans scholarship). I've always been under the impr

by tmpz22 6y ago

The University of Oregon charges based on credit hours so more or less its an identical price for any degree (sans scholarship). I've always been under the impression this this is the norm. I'm glad your school offered reduced rates for some degree paths but I think it is an outlier.

filoleg 6y ago
Unfortunately, they didn't reduce the rates. It was the same tuition price per semester, regardless of credit hours (as long as you still stay full-time, because the price for part-time is half). Which meant that people who graduated in quicker time spent less money. The cost was also the same for all undergrad degrees. But it wasn't much of a concern at GT, because of the statewide Hope/Zell Miller scholarship covering the tuition based on the credit hours (and not on the actual semesters, you just have to have GPA high enough to qualify, which wasn't that high at all). So if you wanted to speedrun it and risk your GPA, you could do that. But if you wanted to take it slower, that scholarship allowed you to do so, because they paid regardless of how many years you took to graduate, as long as you were full time (with some nuances around part-time that aren't worth getting into right now), had high enough GPA, and you werent over the total cap of credit hours needed to graduate from your program.
- taormina 6y ago
  You can call a 3.0 GPA "low" but it's also Dean's List at GT....
  - filoleg 6y ago
    My bad, I didn't mean "low" as in "bad". I meant "low" in terms of what people would consider "impressive". 3.0 won't get you into any respectable med school, and 3.0 is also pretty much a very bare minimum required to get into a decent grad school program. While keeping 3.0 at GT might be a fairly difficult task, it is more than doable, and it wouldn't be considered by most GT students as some ungodly achievement. For comparison, the average GPA for fraternity members at Georgia Tech for Spring 2020 was 3.7 (which is higher than the average GT student GPA, but not by some crazy amount, and I think is a pretty good proxy for showing that 3.0 is not something that only a small number of students can achieve).[0] 0. https://fraternity.gatech.edu/51879_GATech_Guide.pdf https://fraternity.gatech.edu/51879_GATech_Guide.pdf

by tmpz22 6y ago

filoleg 6y ago

Unfortunately, they didn't reduce the rates. It was the same tuition price per semester, regardless of credit hours (as long as you still stay full-time, because the price for part-time is half). Which meant that people who graduated in quicker time spent less money. The cost was also the same for all undergrad degrees. But it wasn't much of a concern at GT, because of the statewide Hope/Zell Miller scholarship covering the tuition based on the credit hours (and not on the actual semesters, you just have to have GPA high enough to qualify, which wasn't that high at all). So if you wanted to speedrun it and risk your GPA, you could do that. But if you wanted to take it slower, that scholarship allowed you to do so, because they paid regardless of how many years you took to graduate, as long as you were full time (with some nuances around part-time that aren't worth getting into right now), had high enough GPA, and you werent over the total cap of credit hours needed to graduate from your program.

taormina 6y ago
You can call a 3.0 GPA "low" but it's also Dean's List at GT....
- filoleg 6y ago
  My bad, I didn't mean "low" as in "bad". I meant "low" in terms of what people would consider "impressive". 3.0 won't get you into any respectable med school, and 3.0 is also pretty much a very bare minimum required to get into a decent grad school program. While keeping 3.0 at GT might be a fairly difficult task, it is more than doable, and it wouldn't be considered by most GT students as some ungodly achievement. For comparison, the average GPA for fraternity members at Georgia Tech for Spring 2020 was 3.7 (which is higher than the average GT student GPA, but not by some crazy amount, and I think is a pretty good proxy for showing that 3.0 is not something that only a small number of students can achieve).[0] 0. https://fraternity.gatech.edu/51879_GATech_Guide.pdf https://fraternity.gatech.edu/51879_GATech_Guide.pdf