Elite SLAC with engineering major
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Anonymous
| Is she good with criticism? LAC environments are very heavy on feedback and can be taxing for students with anxiety, compared to large universities where you can just get lost in the crowd or never even show up to be in the crowd. |
Anonymous
| Harvey Mudd +++ |
Anonymous
| Harvey Mudd, Rice, Carnegie Mellon |
Anonymous
| Tufts |
Anonymous
Not Lehigh, definitely not for a student in engineering with anxiety. Why engineering at all? Can kid handle not knowing grades all quarter or ending up with class 37 averages on assessments? Curved grading? |
Anonymous
| Manhattan College, U of Dayton would be good choices. |
Anonymous
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Trinity
Union both ABET |
Anonymous
pp back. Sorry they are not elite. Elite schools are not the best for anxiety. Too much stress and striverism, competition, suicide…Take it a notch down and focus on good, accredited engineering schools with supportive communities, not elite schools. |
Anonymous
People on this forum have posted that Manhattan is in financial freefall. I don’t know if that’s true — it’s too bad if it is. |
Anonymous
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Look at Notre Dame. It may be too big of a school for your DD, but their college of engineering is strong and really supportive rather than cut-throat.
You also get some midwestern-nice that might be helpful for someone with anxiety |
Anonymous
| Friend's kid is at Olin College of Engineering and loves it. Sounds exactly like the environment where your DC will thrive, and it's right outside of Boston too. |
Anonymous
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I would think a 3 2 program may work. Because it doesn't seem like much a gamble that that the child would do well enough to get into the engineering at Dartmouth, Wash U, Columbia, etc. For others this is a huge gamble which almost never works out.
Or it could be just kicking the can down the road because the child will have to deal with the cutthroat culture when he or she gets to the engineering school. |
Anonymous
I don't think most SLACs have engineering programs and if they do, not very strong. Have you considered a 3+2 program where the kid gets a degree from the SLAC in 3 years and spends the other 2 at another school to get an engineering degree? This way, the kid is more mature at 21 and is able to handle the larger environment. |
Anonymous
| Dartmouth isn’t substantially larger than Middlebury and has an engineering program. |