Small, safety engineering school?

[Anonymous]

16:37 here. I’ll add that my DC applied for a STEM major, but not engineering. Applied RD and would’ve needed financial aid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think some people on this thread are assuming that if they know kids who had those scores and didn’t get in that means NO kids with those scores got in, and certainly none with lower scores.


That’s just not true. An application package depends on many factors, including the number of kids applying to any particular engineering program (there is usually more than one) at that school that year. It may depend on things not directly related to classes and scores also. People who have kids with a 3.5 and a 1200 aren’t bragging to people who think a 1500 is the score required to go to any school in any subject.

You are correct, though OP is looking for safeties. If a student with a 1500 doesn't get in, it isn't going to be a safety for the 1200 kid either (even though the 1200 kid might indeed get admitted and the 1500 kid might not).

[Anonymous]

I don’t know how your daughter might feel about attending a single-sex school, but Smith College has a great engineering program and an acceptance rate of 30%. I don’t know if it would be a safety, but 1/4 of the kids admitted have an SAT score that is less than 1370. Maybe worth looking into?

https://www.smith.edu/academics/engineering

[Anonymous]

Clarkson

[Anonymous]

WPI

[Anonymous]

Did anyone recommend Clarkson or WPI?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UMBC
Towson
VA Tech
ODU

private:

Clarkson
Lehigh
Bates


BTW, lots of students think they want to do engineering but then find out they don't. There is something called information systems that is the business side of science (computer science though) and it's a good alternate to engineering if it does not work out.

VA Tech engineering is extremely difficult to get into. Not a safety for even high stat students.

Her stats are in the green-ish (60/40) for our school for VA Tech. My son got in with a little bit higher GPA but lower test score.

That honestly shocks me. My son has a 3.7 UW and a 35 ACT (36 on Science, 35 math for a 36 STEM composite score) and I was under the impression that he has almost 0 chance of getting into VT engineering.

I'm guessing PP was looking at general stats? Maybe not engineering specific which would be much higher. Just a guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:gettysburg, lafayette, drexel, wentworth...

Lafayette would be a reach w/ these stats I think. Definitely not a safety.

Try York College.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s so hard to get into any engineering school now. Unless it’s so bad that you wouldn’t want to attend. DD was accepted by Cal Poly SLO. She applied thinking it was a safety. It turned out that SLO’s acceptance rate was only 8%.

oof someone didn't do their hw on SLO. Yea, SLO is hard to get into for eng/cs.

I think you both have it wrong. Cals are for California residents. They are very hard to get into from OOS . But it still comes down to - do you really want to do engineering at Cal Poly SLO?

SLO is an excellent school for engineering. Where have you been? But, agree it is much harder to get in OOS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know how your daughter might feel about attending a single-sex school, but Smith College has a great engineering program and an acceptance rate of 30%. I don’t know if it would be a safety, but 1/4 of the kids admitted have an SAT score that is less than 1370. Maybe worth looking into?

https://www.smith.edu/academics/engineering

It's definitely not a safety.