(09-05-2021 05:22 PM)random asian guy Wrote:  

(09-05-2021 01:28 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(09-05-2021 01:22 PM)random asian guy Wrote:  Doesn’t GT have easy majors? Not everyone there has to major in engineering and hard science. Also, there are other schools that are even harder to get in than GT.

GT doesn't have a liberal arts offering beyond a few technology related minors. Liberal arts is where dumb football players usually hide. Google the "Stanford Easy A List" that the football team use to pass around. Harder for the student doesn't necessarily mean harder for the football player. Stanford has plenty of places to hide a neanderthal playing football. At GT the best cover you'll get to hide is the business school.

While this hinders building up a football program easily, it is also why GT has the second best ROI on tuition versus starting pay in the country to only the Colorado School of Mines. It's also why the average GT graduate is a millionaire ... they don't produce Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies majors at GT. You won't find former GT football players emptying the garbage after their career is over. And I think that's peachy with everybody at GT. Let WVU and Ole Miss fight each other over who can hang the bar lowest. GT has another way, and it can still work at the highest levels athletically.

Well, looks like GT does offer BS in technology related liberal arts.

https://admission.gatech.edu/liberal-arts

BS in History, Technology, and Society

African American Studies, Health and Medicine, Global Health, Sociology, and Sports Society.

HOWEVER, even though you can slip by real calculus, you are going to get at least a semester blasted with its dumbed down Calculus for the Biological Sciences or Survey of Calculus.

https://hsoc.gatech.edu/sites/default/fi...ree_20.pdf

Georgia Tech Core (36 hours)
Computing Requirement (3 hrs)
Students complete either CS 1315, CS 1301, or a computer programming course approved as satisfying the general education requirements in computer literacy.
Wellness Requirement (2 hrs)
All undergraduate students attending Georgia Tech must satisfactorily complete a wellness requirement (APPH 1040, 1050, or equivalent).
Humanities And Fine Arts (12 hrs)
HTS students take ENGL 1101 and 1102 and six credit hours in a single foreign language. ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102 must be completed in the student's first 30 credit hours at Georgia Tech. Applicable language classes may not be taught in English.
Social Science Electives (3 hrs)
The state of Georgia requires all students to take a course on the government and history of the United States. Any one of the following courses will fulfill this requirement: HIST 2111, HIST 2112, INTA 1200, POL 1101, or PUBP 3000. This course must be taken in addition to the HIST 2111/2112 class taken to fulfill the HTS core requirement. HTS students satisfy the additional required nine hours of social science courses with their HTS classes. Note that credit is not given for both INTA 1200 and POL 1101.
Mathematics (8 hrs)
Students must choose one course to fulfill Area A2 of the general education requirements (1501 or 1552 or 1555 or 1712) and one course or course sequence to fulfill Area D of the general education requirements (1502 or 1551 + 1553 or 1551 + 1554 or 1551 +1564 or 1550 + 1553 or 1550 + 1554 or 1550 + 1564 or 1711). Course(s) to fulfill Area A2 must be completed in the student's first 30 credit hours at Georgia Tech.
Science (8 hrs)
Students take two of the following eight courses: BIOL 1220, BIOL 1510, BIOL 1520, CHEM 1211K, CHEM 1212K, CHEM 1310, CHEM 1311 & 1312, EAS 1600, EAS 1601, EAS 2600, PHYS 2211 or PHYS 2212. The courses need not be taken as a sequence.
History, Technology, and Society Core (32 hours)
Students acquire a grounding in history and sociology by completing following sequence of courses. All classes must be taken for a letter grade and students must earn at least a C in the class for it to count towards the HTS core.
• HTS Non-US requirement (two courses, selected from a menu),
• HTS Science, Technology, or Medicine requirement (two courses, selected from a menu),
• SOC 1101,
• HIST 2111 or 2112, and
• HTS 2101.*
They also take one economics course from the following: ECON 2100, 2101, 2105, or 2106.
Students complete two HTS 4000-level research seminars (four credits each) in their junior and senior years.
* Note that HTS 2101 is a pre-requisite with concurrency for HTS seminars. HTS 2101 must be taken before or at the same time as an HTS seminar.
History, Technology, and Society Electives (24 hours)
HTS requires that students complete an additional 24 hours of HTS electives, in the following configuration:
• 9 hours selected from any School of History and Sociology classes,
• 3 hours selected from any School of History and Sociology HISTORY classes (no special topics courses),
• 3 hours selected from any School of History and Sociology SOCIOLOGY classes (no special topics courses), and
• 9 hours selected from one of the seven available areas of specialization.
One class (three credit hours) with a D grade can be used to fulfill HTS electives.
List of all HIST, HTS, and SOC classes
Non-Major Cluster (12 hours)
Students are required to complete a 12-hour non-major cluster--12 hours of coursework in one field/one course prefix (e.g., 12 hours of BIOL) or 12 hours that all apply to the same interdisciplinary certificate or minor, through they may have different course prefixes.

Now as I put on my advising hat to counsel young people my prescription would be as follows:

If you are indeed limited and should not be at GT, take these math classes at Georgia State or one of the two year schools in Atlanta and get the credit transferred. This is one way Duke gets around a few things for its athletes - they can take courses at NC Central or NC A&T, or UNCG.

The ONLY comparative advantage at GT is that you will be up against fewer stupendous writers. Perfect English combined with actual writing style and good opinion is the mainstay of the liberal arts at UNC and Duke.

You can skip over to the transfer articulation site for GT and see what they will take from a Community College or another lower level university.

By far GT is the most academically rigorous of any ACC school.