Engineering target schools
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My go-to exercise for finding targets is to go to College Navigator and enter in a few filters. For example, here's a search for schools over 5,000 students with a Mechanical Engineering major, an acceptance rate over 20%, and relatively high SAT scores.
Binghamton University Brigham Young University Case Western Reserve University Colorado School of Mines George Washington University Lehigh University North Carolina State University at Raleigh Ohio State University-Main Campus Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rochester Institute of Technology Santa Clara University Southern Methodist University Stony Brook University University of Florida University of Maryland-College Park University of Massachusetts-Amherst University of Minnesota-Twin Cities University of Rochester University of Wisconsin-Madison Villanova University You might update the filtering to match different engineering majors, different admit rates, different student body sizes, etc. But that should give you a pretty solid list of candidates to start with. |
Anonymous
My son's best friend is attending Colorado School of Mines. Civil engineering. Loves it. Similar stats, but not IB, top 5% of a public school. Math through AB calc. EC's - didn't publish or start a non-profit. Eagle Scout and varsity football. |
Anonymous
| Olin near Boston? It doesn't have other makos outside of Engineering, so may kind is not considering it. NC State in Raleigh. Colorado School of Mines is near Denver and since it is a state school will be more expensive. All the others that I can think of are in remote locations. |
Anonymous
Well IMO, a target needs an acceptance rate between 20-50%, so even 15 is still a Reach. Doesn't matter if you are high stats or not, everyone applying to those Reach schools is as well (or at least 75-80%), so your chances of rejection are still high. Don't leave your kid forced to attend a safety (unless they want to) because you didn't find and apply to actual targets. |
Anonymous
DD is a freshman at Mines. She’s also CivE. She has truly found her people and her happy place. |
Anonymous
It's great when the school matches perfectly with the applicant. |
Anonymous
Schools don't get any smaller than Olin. Not at all a fit for someone who wants a larger school. |
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If he gets into UMD engineering and does not go, that's a dumb decision unless money is no object for you guys or unless he gets into someplace like MIT (which he won't, with that profile).
He might not get into UMD engineering. But he should be working towards that goal because that is likely to be his best option. It's regularly ranked around 20 in the engineering schools rankings. It's hard to get into. |
Anonymous
| OP, you need to tell us his weighted and unweighted GPA. |
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NC State. Not a bad drive depending on where you are in the area, plus several flights from DCA to RDU each day (maybe BWI and IAD, too?). Raleigh/Wake County has more than 1 million in population (Ral is 500K). Lots of student housing near campus.
Colorado School of Mines - in Golden, just outside Denver. Although Mines is on the smaller side and not D1. Still a great environment. We toured there and I loved it. (So did my son, but he ultimately chose somewhere east of the Mississippi River. ) |
Anonymous
I wouldn’t say money is no object, but we could afford private. He just isn’t excited about spending four years in a DC exurb, having grown up here, which to be honest I get. When I was his age I wanted to see the workplace (and he is definitely considering McGill etc). |
Anonymous
*world, not workplace…. |
Anonymous
4.89/4. |