Small, safety engineering school?

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Anonymous wrote:Swarthmore is a small LAC with Engineering. But not a safety.

Yes, a great program. Probably a reach.
I work in Higher Ed (tech) and think the small liberal arts approach to teaching engineering makes for well-rounded people entering the workforce.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD has been at small private (independent) schools since pre-k (in the DMV and elsewhere now). Not the top school, but fairly rigorous. 1280 SAT and 3.5 uw GPA. She's aiming for engineering. Problem is, all the safety schools seem...large. She's pretty serious, studious, and not looking for a large school with a party scene where she'd get lost, which rules out of most of the typical flagships. On the other hand, the smaller engineering schools are probably reaches for her stats. Ideas for her? We're thinking possibly Rose-Hulman but are stumped otherwise.

Rose-Hulman in Indiana is ranked #1 engineering school in the nation without a PhD program, even way ahead of Harvey Mudd. I don’t think it’s a safety school.

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Shouldn’t say “way ahead” but it is ahead of Olin and Harvey Mudd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t say “way ahead” but it is ahead of Olin and Harvey Mudd.

soooooo not a safety for engineering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can’t be a mechanical engineer with a 1280 sat unless your math sat is 680+. Better to be 730+

What about project management in engineering? Or business management in engineering?

who are you to say this? SAT scores has no correlation.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD has been at small private (independent) schools since pre-k (in the DMV and elsewhere now). Not the top school, but fairly rigorous. 1280 SAT and 3.5 uw GPA. She's aiming for engineering. Problem is, all the safety schools seem...large. She's pretty serious, studious, and not looking for a large school with a party scene where she'd get lost, which rules out of most of the typical flagships. On the other hand, the smaller engineering schools are probably reaches for her stats. Ideas for her? We're thinking possibly Rose-Hulman but are stumped otherwise.

Rose-Hulman in Indiana is ranked #1 engineering school in the nation without a PhD program, even way ahead of Harvey Mudd. I don’t think it’s a safety school.

77% acceptance rate?

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gettysburg, lafayette, drexel, wentworth...

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Not sure if this is behind a "pay wall". Skip the first few. Look for names you DON'T recognize.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-overall

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My husband hires engineers out of Missouri S&T. Enrollment is a little less than 8000 undergrads, and they offer good automatic merit: https://sfa.mst.edu/financial-aid/scholarships/undergraduate/freshmen-merit-based-scholarships/

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Anonymous wrote:gettysburg, lafayette, drexel, wentworth...

Gettysburg only has a dual degree program and Drexel is not a small school.

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Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Rose-Hulman. Getting in isn’t the hard part. Great school, tough classes, supportive environment, great career placement history.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UMBC
Towson
VA Tech
ODU

private:

Clarkson
Lehigh
Bates


BTW, lots of students think they want to do engineering but then find out they don't. There is something called information systems that is the business side of science (computer science though) and it's a good alternate to engineering if it does not work out.

Yes, this has definitely crossed her mind. She's really still figuring things out but realizes she's on a clock.

Towson doesn’t really have a program….it’s some kind of partnership.

UMBC has a great program. Not a lot of campus life but if she’s not into that, it’s a terrific option.

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McDaniel has a 3-2 engineering program with WUSTL.

She would be in a small environment for her first three years (with opportunities to change to different a major if needed), and then move once she got her feet under her.

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what about GMU? technically large but feels small. lots of student support.