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Post by 09042014 » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:48 am

yellowjacket2012 wrote:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 1EDLBO.DTL

This article limits it to undergraduate, explicitly, but what's to stop that short of law?

Edley's leading the charge here, I'm assuming he would vehemently say no to an online Boalt JD prospect - there are far too many lawyers for that idea.

For what it's worth, I got my Georgia Tech Master's degree, virtually online - we had a remote campus where most of the profs were at for some odd reason, sometimes in France, sometimes in Savannah, GA - and we were video-taught graduate courses in EE - not sure why that can't be done in law from private homes. It'll change the notion of gunners though, that's for sure.

If I understand correctly, one can earn a Stanford Master's in EE - entirely online.
How selective is that GT masters program?

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Re: Online Boalt degree?

Post by legalease9 » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:51 am

The main problem is that the ABA doesn't accredit online law schools, and a T6 like Berkeley isn't likeley to smash its reputation by opening an unaccredited side-school.

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Post by 09042014 » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:54 am

yellowjacket2012 wrote:Its ranked in the top 5 in the country - you gotta have a 3.5 undergrad in EE at minimum to get in, which is not easy to do, a 3.5 at Ga. Tech is the highest possible graduation honors if I remember correctly. Stanford's even more competitive obviously.

Its easy to "get in" to the undergrad program at Tech, really hard to "stay" in the undergrad program with above a 3.2 (you get honors at that GPA), and hard to get into the Masters program.
Yes GT's reputation precedes it, I was just curious if the online program was easier than their traditional grad school.

Out of my league, I only pulled a 2.8 at UIUC.

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Post by 09042014 » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:58 am

yellowjacket2012 wrote:You actually could get into GT MSEE with a 2.8 if you were a woman. GT gives women engineers a big bump. Are you a woman? I'm really not trying to be sexist here, this is really possible.

If you're a woman, I think you need basically a pencil and above a 500 on the GRE Math, and GT will let you in.

If you're a dude, I think the average is a 760 GRE Math which is pretty easy to do, and a 3.5 undergrad.
No male. It's no wonder being a woman helps, at UIUC our class in ECE was 6% female.

I don't think a MSEE would help my law career enough to justify a year and more loans. Also I doubt I can get into a reputable program.

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Post by ggocat » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:38 am

legalease9 wrote:The main problem is that the ABA doesn't accredit online law schools, and a T6 like Berkeley isn't likeley to smash its reputation by opening an unaccredited side-school.
I'm not saying this contradicts what you posted, but NYU offers their LLM in Tax online.

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Post by worldtraveler » Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:43 am

yellowjacket2012 wrote:at GT, I had classes of 40 dudes, 0 women.
There was one class with 108 students, 2 women.

In general, GT EE women aren't exactly Maxim material.
I know an EE who went to Georgia Tech. He freaks out at the mention of sex and won't talk to women, ever. Perhaps this ratio helps explain why.

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