Small schools with engineering that offer good merit
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Another SO for Clarkson, gave DS a really nice offer and he was not a hooked kid in any way.
URochester on the other hand disappointed us with aid for my other very strong student. |
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| If you're willing to send them to the west coast, my son (3.5 gpa) was accepted at Denver with 27k merit. They have 5k students and engineering. |
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| Bucknell. Gave terrific aid and cost what a state school would have for us. |
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| Engineering professor here. Bucknell is known for their quality undergraduate teaching in engineering. |
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Any more info on Lafayette, Union, U Vermont, U Rochester (is it really that skimpy on merit?), Pitt, Drexel or WPI? Thanks!
Girl interesting in engineering w/ 3.9+ UW, 4.7+W, 35ACT Also, anyone w/ experience at Manhattan College? Would love to hear more about that! |
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Wow, that's great! But, how fratty is the campus? I've heard that it has heavy drinking and kind of a bro culture. Read about the LGBTQ house being harassed by the frat. Is this exaggerated? How is the student climate? |
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| Rose-Hulman. |
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| Union college. |
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| Trinity in Connecticut |
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| Clarkson. Try for the Honors Program. |
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| Sweet Briar apparently has a very good engineering program. Women’s college |
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| Agnes Scott (women’s college) gives lots of merit and has a 3-2 engineering program with Georgia Tech. |
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My son got $24,000 of merit per year from WPI (he is a HS senior now). Good, not the best stats. He has a 93 UW average with 6 APs and a few honors classes. Robotics ECs with some leadership. This is the only small-ish school he applied to. I was really surprised!
At WPI, you can also compete for a FIRST robotics scholarship that looks pretty generous, if the student has participated. But, I think my kid is going to another school. He does like WPI, and knows of students having a great experience there. |
Anonymous
No one should do a 3-2 program unless they change their mind about their major after they start undergrad. A 5th year is expensive and the program is never as good as just studying engineering from the start. |
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| Sweetbriar |