How would you rank these colleges for engineering?

[Anonymous]

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-engineering

USC produces outstanding outcomes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who puts UMBC, MIT, Brown, GW and Loyola Marymount is the same list for anything, let alone engineering? It’s like randomly grabbing college names out of a bag.

Please explain the thought process behind this list OP.

+1

Troll fail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brown
Caltech
Chapman University
George Washington University
Harvard
Harvey Mudd
Johns Hopkins
Loyola Marymount University
MIT
Princeton
Santa Clara University
Stanford
UMBC
UMD - CP
USC (California)
University of the Pacific

Guessing you're in-state in MD so the only schools I put pick over in-state tuition and engineering program at UMD-CP are: Brown, Stanford, Caltech, MIT, JHU, Harvard, Princeton and possibly Harvey Mudd. Don't waste your money at the others and have your kid play club at UMD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brown
Caltech
Chapman University
George Washington University
Harvard
Harvey Mudd
Johns Hopkins
Loyola Marymount University
MIT
Princeton
Santa Clara University
Stanford
UMBC
UMD - CP
USC (California)
University of the Pacific

Guessing you're in-state in MD so the only schools I put pick over in-state tuition and engineering program at UMD-CP are: Brown, Stanford, Caltech, MIT, JHU, Harvard, Princeton and possibly Harvey Mudd. Don't waste your money at the others and have your kid play club at UMD

NPC’s at most of the schools come in near or below UMD for us.

— OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Civil? Structural? Mechanical? Environmental?

Mechanical

As a mechanical engineer, this would be my personal ranking (not just based on ME programs):

Stanford
MIT
Princeton
Brown
Caltech University
Harvard
Harvey Mudd
USC (California)

I wouldn’t really consider the rest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who puts UMBC, MIT, Brown, GW and Loyola Marymount is the same list for anything, let alone engineering? It’s like randomly grabbing college names out of a bag.

Please explain the thought process behind this list OP.

I listed every school that has an NCAA team for my kid’s sport, plus a 4 year engineering program, except military academies and state schools which reportedly don’t give OOS FA. I then added the two public schools in my state with the strongest engineering programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Civil? Structural? Mechanical? Environmental?

Mechanical

As a mechanical engineer, this would be my personal ranking (not just based on ME programs):

Stanford
MIT
Princeton
Brown
Caltech University
Harvard
Harvey Mudd
USC (California)

I wouldn’t really consider the rest.

Not Hopkins?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brown
Caltech
Chapman University
George Washington University
Harvard
Harvey Mudd
Johns Hopkins
Loyola Marymount University
MIT
Princeton
Santa Clara University
Stanford
UMBC
UMD - CP
USC (California)
University of the Pacific

Guessing you're in-state in MD so the only schools I put pick over in-state tuition and engineering program at UMD-CP are: Brown, Stanford, Caltech, MIT, JHU, Harvard, Princeton and possibly Harvey Mudd. Don't waste your money at the others and have your kid play club at UMD

NPC’s at most of the schools come in near or below UMD for us.

— OP

Got it, we were in a similar situation with DC. I would stick with my previous list and then throw in the schools that your DC likes the coach, likes the team, and will get playing time. For a recruit, this actually isn't a very long list. Get ready for tons of emails, texts and phone calls. You'll find out fairly quickly which schools are interested in your DC. Start with filling out the "recruitment questionnaire" for each school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Civil? Structural? Mechanical? Environmental?

Mechanical

As a mechanical engineer, this would be my personal ranking (not just based on ME programs):

Stanford
MIT
Princeton
Brown
Caltech University
Harvard
Harvey Mudd
USC (California)

I wouldn’t really consider the rest.

Not Hopkins?

Nope, but I know people who had a good experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Civil? Structural? Mechanical? Environmental?

Mechanical

As a mechanical engineer, this would be my personal ranking (not just based on ME programs):

Stanford
MIT
Princeton
Brown
Caltech University
Harvard
Harvey Mudd
USC (California)

I wouldn’t really consider the rest.

I wasn’t going to respond to OP’s rando list, but This. This is the right list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a strange list…waste of anyone’s time to rank a bunch of randomly aggregated schools.

It seems really random, but what they have in common is that except for the two in state schools, they're the schools that offer my kid's sport, and engineering, minus some schools where we think he wouldn't get enough financial aid.

Recruitment for his class starts in the summer, and he needs to be ready to make decisions about which coaches he wants to talk to. So, trying to get a sense of which schools are better than our in state options. He'd love to play in college, but only if it means a school that's similar to or better than what he might attend otherwise.

What sport is at Brown but not Cornell?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a strange list…waste of anyone’s time to rank a bunch of randomly aggregated schools.

It seems really random, but what they have in common is that except for the two in state schools, they're the schools that offer my kid's sport, and engineering, minus some schools where we think he wouldn't get enough financial aid.

Recruitment for his class starts in the summer, and he needs to be ready to make decisions about which coaches he wants to talk to. So, trying to get a sense of which schools are better than our in state options. He'd love to play in college, but only if it means a school that's similar to or better than what he might attend otherwise.

What sport is at Brown but not Cornell?

Water polo

Cornell has actual polo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brown
Caltech
Chapman University
George Washington University
Harvard
Harvey Mudd
Johns Hopkins
Loyola Marymount University
MIT
Princeton
Santa Clara University
Stanford
UMBC
UMD - CP
USC (California)
University of the Pacific

Guessing you're in-state in MD so the only schools I put pick over in-state tuition and engineering program at UMD-CP are: Brown, Stanford, Caltech, MIT, JHU, Harvard, Princeton and possibly Harvey Mudd. Don't waste your money at the others and have your kid play club at UMD

NPC’s at most of the schools come in near or below UMD for us.

— OP

Got it, we were in a similar situation with DC. I would stick with my previous list and then throw in the schools that your DC likes the coach, likes the team, and will get playing time. For a recruit, this actually isn't a very long list. Get ready for tons of emails, texts and phone calls. You'll find out fairly quickly which schools are interested in your DC. Start with filling out the "recruitment questionnaire" for each school

Thanks, water polo doesn't have a ton of NCAA teams, and a lot of them are California state schools, where I hear that financial aid OOS is terrible, or don't have engineering.

You wouldn't put USC on the list?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a strange list…waste of anyone’s time to rank a bunch of randomly aggregated schools.

It seems really random, but what they have in common is that except for the two in state schools, they're the schools that offer my kid's sport, and engineering, minus some schools where we think he wouldn't get enough financial aid.

Recruitment for his class starts in the summer, and he needs to be ready to make decisions about which coaches he wants to talk to. So, trying to get a sense of which schools are better than our in state options. He'd love to play in college, but only if it means a school that's similar to or better than what he might attend otherwise.

What sport is at Brown but not Cornell?

Water polo

Cornell has actual polo

They have club water polo.
https://collegiatewaterpolo.org/club/schedules/mensclub/new-york-division-m23/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a strange list…waste of anyone’s time to rank a bunch of randomly aggregated schools.

It seems really random, but what they have in common is that except for the two in state schools, they're the schools that offer my kid's sport, and engineering, minus some schools where we think he wouldn't get enough financial aid.

Recruitment for his class starts in the summer, and he needs to be ready to make decisions about which coaches he wants to talk to. So, trying to get a sense of which schools are better than our in state options. He'd love to play in college, but only if it means a school that's similar to or better than what he might attend otherwise.

What sport is at Brown but not Cornell?

Water polo

Cornell has actual polo

They have club water polo.
https://collegiatewaterpolo.org/club/schedules/mensclub/new-york-division-m23/

Lots of schools have club water polo, but those schools don't recruit. At this point, all I'm asking is which coaches to connect with who might help with recruiting. That doesn't mean that he won't also look at other schools where he would play club, or might decide not to play at all, but that will happen a little later in the process.