Reach/Target/Likely list for an engineering student who wants to stay close to home

[Anonymous]

My kid, with strong stats and EC's, is hoping to study engineering within about 2.5 hours of home (Rockville). He'd specifically like a school that has has a variety of engineering disciplines, and that allows students to transfer between disciplines. He'll need somewhere that's either in state (Maryland), meets full need, or gives good merit.

Can you help us think of schools to explore that we might be missing, and to rank these schools that we've found as Reach/Match/Safety? If you know anything specifically about a school that might help us, we'd appreciate it.

Here are the schools we know about.

Catholic University
Delaware
Drexel
GMU
GWU
Johns Hopkins
Princeton
Rowan
TCNJ
Temple
UMD
UVA
Villanova
VCU

[Anonymous]

Give him a nudge to apply further out. He should have the confidence to at least be a 4 h drive from home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Give him a nudge to apply further out. He should have the confidence to at least be a 4 h drive from home

He has a good reason for wanting to stay close. It has nothing to do with confidence.

[Anonymous]

I didn’t realize Catholic has engineering?

[Anonymous]

If he has the stats to consider Princeton, why not Penn?

[Anonymous]

UMBC has a very solid engineering program. It is much more residential than it used to be.

[Anonymous]

He wants schools where there is an option for civil engineering, which neither Penn nor UMBC has, which is why he didn't include them on the list.

[Anonymous]

I don't think TCNJ has engineering? But if you are willing to go to NJ, I think Rutgers has engineering. And Stevens is a very good smaller engineering program (probably beyond your range, but not by much).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think TCNJ has engineering? But if you are willing to go to NJ, I think Rutgers has engineering. And Stevens is a very good smaller engineering program (probably beyond your range, but not by much).

Replying to myself. Apologies. Didn't know that TCNJ has engineering but it does. My bad. TCNJ is a great school not on many radars. Not comparable to Ivies, etc. but a good school.

[Anonymous]

it's a little further but VA Tech

[Anonymous]

OP, Your college counselor will help you with categorizing schools in the next few weeks when you have your first one-on-one meeting. This can sometimes change in June-September of 12th if you DC’s grades had a drop or test scores rise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think TCNJ has engineering? But if you are willing to go to NJ, I think Rutgers has engineering. And Stevens is a very good smaller engineering program (probably beyond your range, but not by much).

We made the list by scouring the ABET website. All of these schools have accredited programs in multiple engineering disciplines including Civil.

We set our cut off at 3 hours. If the google maps directions from our house was 2 hours and 59 minutes or below we included it. I agree that those would be good fits otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Penn State Harrisburg and UDC also both have civil engineering programs.

[Anonymous]

Old Dominion University in VA has a very strong engineering program. You may want to take a look at West Virginia University as well. Maybe also consider Loyola MD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think TCNJ has engineering? But if you are willing to go to NJ, I think Rutgers has engineering. And Stevens is a very good smaller engineering program (probably beyond your range, but not by much).

Replying to myself. Apologies. Didn't know that TCNJ has engineering but it does. My bad. TCNJ is a great school not on many radars. Not comparable to Ivies, etc. but a good school.

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Why are you disguising your DC’s gender? “It” “she” “he”—- no one can identify you from your vague posts about an undisclosed private school. So silly.