Help Finding Safeties #2--comp sci/engineering

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a kid at TJ. Pitt is definitely the go to safety for Engineering and CS. A kid with those stats should have no trouble getting in, but honors college would be a reach. He might get some merit, but not a lot.

Rolling Decision. My kid applied 9/1 and had an acceptance in hand 9/11. Once that’s done, there was no need to worry about other safeties.

Campus is surprisingly nice, as is Pittsburgh. My kid really liked it when they visited. People saying Olin, Cooper Union, RPI, Northeastern and CWRU for engineering with those stats out of the DMV have missed the boat. Those are probably low reaches.

NC State
Clemson
Ohio State
Penn State
WPI

Are going to be low matches to safety.

Not for the price OP wants to pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WVU
Get over GMU being close to home
Pitt if they haven't stopped with the merit
NVCC and transfer

Not a lot for those stats and criteria

Can you clarify? OP kid's stats 1500 4.1 GPA are excellent!
Criteria meaning merit?

Right. Not a lot of merit aid at many of these school esp to bring it down to the price OP wanted.

[Anonymous]

UA Huntsville

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Case Western
WPI
Olin
RPI
Penn State
WVU
Stevens
North Carolina State
RIT
Clark
CMU
Pitt
LaFayette
Lehigh
Drexel
Cooper Union
Northeastern
Boston University

Olin isn’t a safety for anyone.

So what? His stats make him an acceptable applicant. Most schools do not have engineering and CS safeties.

Because I read the OP's title, and stayed on topic.

[Anonymous]

NC State engineering has basically own campus very nice especially libraries. Football not in walking distance bad for freshman. Jobs well their career center isn’t awesome and internships are not available much either.

They do have 8 plus 8 at state and get a T shirt upon completion of 8 PE courses. Although there are a few professors from that part of the University that need to go.

[Anonymous]

OP, apply widely. Research rolling admissions - often in the midwest. Applications open in August. Get it in in August. You'll have an answer by October. Have a couple, and you have a choice of safeties.

[Anonymous]

PP again, go visit after you get in. If you have to.

By applying widely, have in mind 10 schools or so. Don't complain about application costs. Application costs are a drop in the bucket compared to what you will be paying in tuition.

[Anonymous]

Thanks all! So I got up to 10 schools, more seems crazy.

Uva
Cwm
Vt
Gmu
Pitt
Perdue
WV
Nc state
Ohio state

1 private, RIT, maybe most likely to give better aid.

Really don't what kid to have more than 30k in debt.
Our finances are not as good as hoped.

[Anonymous]

OP .

And UMBC!

[Anonymous]

Purdue (with a U)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools to look at -
Stevens Institute of Tech in NJ
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
RPI
RIT
UMBC
Penn State
Drexel
Delaware

I will second UMBC. I work at NASA's G*ddard Space Flight Center and we have a lot of people that come to GSFC on contracts in programming, system administration, and various engineering specialties who came from UMBC. It is a great hidden gem and the graduates have a very good background to build on. I've hired several people with UMBC degrees over the years and have not been disappointed by them. Each of the ones that I've hired have been bright and hard workers who often started a little behind the financial curve and that's been fine with me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks all! So I got up to 10 schools, more seems crazy.

Uva
Cwm
Vt
Gmu
Pitt
Perdue
WV
Nc state
Ohio state

1 private, RIT, maybe most likely to give better aid.

Really don't what kid to have more than 30k in debt.
Our finances are not as good as hoped.

Thank for the update OP. We are right behind you by a couple of years. I'm sure your DC will do great no matter where they end up.

[Anonymous]

Sorry I know you already have your list but VCU gives merit aid and has engineering/CS. They're building a new engineering building and it seems that more and more kids from my DC's school are going there every year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry I know you already have your list but VCU gives merit aid and has engineering/CS. They're building a new engineering building and it seems that more and more kids from my DC's school are going there every year.

...and no extra application required for merit aid. Those were DC's favorites!!!

[Anonymous]

No application fee at Oberlin — can’t hurt to apply.