Help with this list for an engineering major?

[Anonymous]

I don't think the technical schools like Georgia Tech take legacy into consideration. They claim admission is merit based only but who knows ...

[Anonymous]

Based on your son's course selection, he is probably in a magnet program.
Just curious why did he apply to so many safeties considering his high stats? My son has identical stats and had UMD, VT and Purdue as safeties. He got into all but we (literally) forced him to apply to VT just to add an extra safety.

Wisconsin-Madison, UIUC, and UMD are top engineering schools with very low acceptance rate. Congratulations to your son!

Thank you. That's a good question about safeties. We let him choose where to apply. He said he was looking at the strength of the engineering programs specifically more than the schools. The only one I suggested was Vanderbilt, which didn't work out and wasn't a top priority for him.
My kid's at Blair. Even if you're not in the magnet, you can request to take some magnet classes with a teacher's recommendation and that's what he did.
Congrats to your son as well! Just curious, which one will he accept? Sounds like he has great options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:EA at Georgia Tech. Hope you have been donating to alma mater

No and I'm wondering if that will actually hurt!!

[Anonymous]

Wisconsin is good for Engineering applicants because they consider first and second choice of major. They specifically have those applying to the college of engineering apply as an engineering major as their first choice and something outside the college of engineering as their second choice. Per the admissions rep there, they do consider the second choice if students aren't admitted to their first choice. It is a school where students can transfer into engineering with sufficient GPA in certain courses. My kid applied Engineering as choice 1 and physics as choice 2 (so he'd be able to take engineering pre-reqs as a physics major with the goal of transferring into engineering). He was admitted to Engineering. His high school considered Wisconsin as a target for Engineering and a safety for Physics.

UIUC also allows a second choice of major, but within Engineering. The admissions rep suggested Materials Science as the second choice as it's in lower demand, but generally has all same intro courses so if a student does well they could transfer within Engineering to a different major. Our school considered that a target school.

Definitely research choice of major at each school and ease of switching majors within Engineering as it really varies a lot. Mech E is super popular. If your child has the ECs to back up Nuclear, it may be a slightly easier admit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Nuclear E is a serious option, one should filter on availability of that degree. Many strong engineering programs do not offer Nuclear E.

Btw, Navy ROTC prefers NuclearE majors (along with Nursing) for their 4-year full ride scholarships.

Of course, Nuke Navy love NE majors. But is she willing to spend her career in military?

Lots of venture capital investment in smaller nuclear reactors right now. In one case, the goal is a small portable nuclear power plant.

Separately, many power companies and all of the Dept of Energy National Labs always are looking for NuclearEs.

Military as a Nuclear officer is a good place to start, for sure. It need not be the whole career though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Nuclear E is a serious option, one should filter on availability of that degree. Many strong engineering programs do not offer Nuclear E.

Btw, Navy ROTC prefers NuclearE majors (along with Nursing) for their 4-year full ride scholarships.

Of course, Nuke Navy love NE majors. But is she willing to spend her career in military?

Lots of venture capital investment in smaller nuclear reactors right now. In one case, the goal is a small portable nuclear power plant.

Separately, many power companies and all of the Dept of Energy National Labs always are looking for NuclearEs.

Military as a Nuclear officer is a good place to start, for sure. It need not be the whole career though.

Yes, lot's of investment going into nuclear now. Like really a lot. Not a bad choice for an engineering specialty at all. And it's also true Navy ROTC will prioritize the nuclear engineers for four year scholarships. Of course, you'll be dealing with submarines and aircraft carriers. Not for everyone. But nuclear engineering is definitely a solid choice today.

For engineering, MIT and Georgia Tech are generally the it schools. Then you have a whole gaggle of different schools - UIUC, Stanford, Purdue, Rice, CMU, Cornell, Michigan, Princeton, Berkeley. And an even bigger gaggle of schools just below that. But they all produce very solid engineers.

[Anonymous]

My kid got a pathway transfer option for Georgia Tech Engineering for the following fall as a legacy--as long as he takes certain intro classes (IE Calc 1 & 2, Chem, Physics, CS, Writing) and achieves a certain GPA, he is a guaranteed admit the following fall. You don't specifically apply into this, but even if your child is on the GPA bubble, it's worth an app as this may be better than a rejection at a similar reach school.

Mine is going to go to another school and probably not use this option, but since he will be taking those intro classes in his college engineering program, it could theoretically be an option if he wants to transfer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Nuclear E is a serious option, one should filter on availability of that degree. Many strong engineering programs do not offer Nuclear E.

Btw, Navy ROTC prefers NuclearE majors (along with Nursing) for their 4-year full ride scholarships.

Of course, Nuke Navy love NE majors. But is she willing to spend her career in military?

Lots of venture capital investment in smaller nuclear reactors right now. In one case, the goal is a small portable nuclear power plant.

Separately, many power companies and all of the Dept of Energy National Labs always are looking for NuclearEs.

Military as a Nuclear officer is a good place to start, for sure. It need not be the whole career though.

Yes, lot's of investment going into nuclear now. Like really a lot. Not a bad choice for an engineering specialty at all. And it's also true Navy ROTC will prioritize the nuclear engineers for four year scholarships. Of course, you'll be dealing with submarines and aircraft carriers. Not for everyone. But nuclear engineering is definitely a solid choice today.

For engineering, MIT and Georgia Tech are generally the it schools. Then you have a whole gaggle of different schools - UIUC, Stanford, Purdue, Rice, CMU, Cornell, Michigan, Princeton, Berkeley. And an even bigger gaggle of schools just below that. But they all produce very solid engineers.

Curious how you think UCLA's engineering program would stand up to those like Michigan and Virginia Tech? OOS for all of them.

[Anonymous]

I think UIUC is a target for your kid!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Nuclear E is a serious option, one should filter on availability of that degree. Many strong engineering programs do not offer Nuclear E.

Btw, Navy ROTC prefers NuclearE majors (along with Nursing) for their 4-year full ride scholarships.

Of course, Nuke Navy love NE majors. But is she willing to spend her career in military?

Lots of venture capital investment in smaller nuclear reactors right now. In one case, the goal is a small portable nuclear power plant.

Separately, many power companies and all of the Dept of Energy National Labs always are looking for NuclearEs.

Military as a Nuclear officer is a good place to start, for sure. It need not be the whole career though.

It is true there's a lot of money and interest at the moment w/ modular reactors. The problem I see is that, in this country, anything nuclear - whether you are talking about power generation or the backend (nuclear waste) - is very dependent on which party is in charge. Dems are generally against nuke business whereas republican administration favors it. Money can dry out pretty quickly if govt policy changes.

DOE is not hiring any significant new hires at the moment. DOE (weapons program and waste program) is pretty DOGEd out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Nuclear E is a serious option, one should filter on availability of that degree. Many strong engineering programs do not offer Nuclear E.

Btw, Navy ROTC prefers NuclearE majors (along with Nursing) for their 4-year full ride scholarships.

Of course, Nuke Navy love NE majors. But is she willing to spend her career in military?

Lots of venture capital investment in smaller nuclear reactors right now. In one case, the goal is a small portable nuclear power plant.

Separately, many power companies and all of the Dept of Energy National Labs always are looking for NuclearEs.

Military as a Nuclear officer is a good place to start, for sure. It need not be the whole career though.

It is true there's a lot of money and interest at the moment w/ modular reactors. The problem I see is that, in this country, anything nuclear - whether you are talking about power generation or the backend (nuclear waste) - is very dependent on which party is in charge. Dems are generally against nuke business whereas republican administration favors it. Money can dry out pretty quickly if govt policy changes.

DOE is not hiring any significant new hires at the moment. DOE (weapons program and waste program) is pretty DOGEd out.

At least SNL and LLNL are still hiring. The DoE labs are not part if the civil service. They legally are FFRDCs.

[Anonymous]

VT yield protects I think and they've been so unpredictable lately, especially for engineering, so I'd put VT on your Target list.

What about WPI?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VT yield protects I think and they've been so unpredictable lately, especially for engineering, so I'd put VT on your Target list.

What about WPI?

As has been stated over and over, VT does not yield protect and they say as much right on their website. They don't need to.

Yield Protection
Virginia Tech does not participate in yield protection.

https://www.vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/counselor-corner.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Nuclear E is a serious option, one should filter on availability of that degree. Many strong engineering programs do not offer Nuclear E.

Btw, Navy ROTC prefers NuclearE majors (along with Nursing) for their 4-year full ride scholarships.

Of course, Nuke Navy love NE majors. But is she willing to spend her career in military?

Lots of venture capital investment in smaller nuclear reactors right now. In one case, the goal is a small portable nuclear power plant.

Separately, many power companies and all of the Dept of Energy National Labs always are looking for NuclearEs.

Military as a Nuclear officer is a good place to start, for sure. It need not be the whole career though.

Yes, lot's of investment going into nuclear now. Like really a lot. Not a bad choice for an engineering specialty at all. And it's also true Navy ROTC will prioritize the nuclear engineers for four year scholarships. Of course, you'll be dealing with submarines and aircraft carriers. Not for everyone. But nuclear engineering is definitely a solid choice today.

For engineering, MIT and Georgia Tech are generally the it schools. Then you have a whole gaggle of different schools - UIUC, Stanford, Purdue, Rice, CMU, Cornell, Michigan, Princeton, Berkeley. And an even bigger gaggle of schools just below that. But they all produce very solid engineers.

Curious how you think UCLA's engineering program would stand up to those like Michigan and Virginia Tech? OOS for all of them.

DP. They're all excellent schools. Here's the USNWR ranking of best undergrad engineering programs:

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate?myCollege=engineering-doctorate&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

[Anonymous]

NMSF?