Schools similar to MIT (but less impossible)
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Anonymous
Interesting. I think of MIT as being strongest in foundational sciences and a place for academic research. This overshadows the engineering reputation for me. |
Anonymous
Can you please clarify? What is the issue with Wellesley right now? |
Anonymous
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Per Fiske 2023, these received the highest academic rating (5 pens):
Amherst Barnard Bowdoin Brown Bryn Mawr CalTech Carleton College Columbia Cornell Dartmouth Duke Georgia Tech Harvard Haverford Johns Hopkins MIT Univ. of Michigan Northwestern Olin College of Engineering Pomona College Princeton Rice Stanford Swarthmore UC Berkeley UCLA UC San Diego UChicago UIUC UPenn Univ. of Virginia Wellesley Wesleyan William & Mary Williams Yale |
Anonymous
| Maybe look at Claremont McKenna's new integrated science program. (Although, I guess an acceptance rate double MIT still doesn't make it easy to get into.) |
Anonymous
Even though I wrote the earlier comment, I could go either way on this. On the one hand, 65% of MIT undergraduates major in either engineering or computer science. On the other hand, to use one prominent example, theoretician and cosmologist Alan Guth is there. |
Anonymous
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These are the 40 schools with 5 star academics per College Transitions (from their book, Colleges Worth Your Money, 2023 ed):
Amherst Barnard Bowdoin Brown Caltech Carleton Carnegie Mellon Claremont McKenna Columbia Cornell Dartmouth Davidson Duke Emory Olin Hamilton Harvard Harvey Mudd Haverford Johns Hopkins MIT Middlebury Northwestern Pomona Princeton Rice Stanford Swarthmore US Naval Academy Vanderbilt UCLA UChicago U of Notre Dame UPenn U of Virginia Washington & Lee WashU Wellesley Williams Yale |
Anonymous
lol nice source "College Transitions" They left some pretty big players out. I'd stick with this. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate?_sort=rank&_sortDirection=asc |
Anonymous
The OP's daughter has not expressed an interest in engineering. |
Anonymous
I thought OP stated STEM was the interest of study? |
Anonymous
STEM is very broad. There were follow-up questions already. From 4/28:
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Anonymous
Subsequently the OP said that her daughter has not mentioned engineering as an area of potential interest. |
Anonymous
From what I've found, it seems Rowman & Littlefield published the College Transitions book. Overall, the book appears to have offered a form of opinion that the authors were reasonably qualified to express. In any case, I credit the DCUM contributor with explicitly citing a source, including the year of the edition used for the content of the post. |
Anonymous
Sorry for the confusion. Yes, "STEM" is probably too broad. Her top 3 interests right now are chemistry (theoretical), physics, and math. But I would love it if this kid settled on something practical like cs or engineering. |
Anonymous
Even if your daughter maintains an interest in, say, theoretical chemistry, an interdisciplinary approach to her education could introduce her to more practical fields. For example, data science (available as a major at many schools) combines statistics and computing with a chosen applied domain, such as theoretical chemistry. |
Anonymous
This is the worst major choice for OP's daughter. Stay away from these experimental, predatory programs. Even a chemistry major at Pomona will launch her much further than this foolishness. |