Which of these schools have engineering as strong or stronger than UMD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised Hopkins isn't getting more love here. Do people really think it's below UMD?

I don’t think Hopkins recruits for water polo. They do recruit for swimming and those kids tend to play on the water polo team for fun.

The two men's teams have no athletes in common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS plays a sport and his coach is telling him to make up a list of schools and start reaching out to coaches. Since we're in Maryland, and since accepting a coach's offer of support would mean giving up a shot at UMD, he's only interested in schools that would be at least roughly similar or better in his chosen field, which is engineering, although he is undecided as to which major.

Any thoughts on which schools on this list meet that criteria? Some are obvious of course.

Brown
Bucknell
Caltech
George Washington
Harvard
Harvey Mudd
Johns Hopkins
Loyola Marymount
MIT
Princeton
Santa Clara
Stanford
UC - Berkeley
UC - Davis
UC - Irvine
UCLA
UC - Merced
UC - San Diego
UC - Santa Barbara
USC

Add Carnegie Mellon engineering.

Lots of my friends there went on to MBAs and manage engineers and projects or are in finance/investing

uW Madison engineering

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fencing

No, water polo.

-- OP

I played club water polo and stuck with engineering, 6 hour labs, internships and the senior year recruiting for jobs.

That was fun and enough for me. The weeds out classes are freshmen year. Be ready.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised Hopkins isn't getting more love here. Do people really think it's below UMD?

I don’t think Hopkins recruits for water polo. They do recruit for swimming and those kids tend to play on the water polo team for fun.

The two men's teams have no athletes in common.

Play on two teams? D1 swim and D1 water polo??!?

That would be insane.

FYI get lasic as a graduation present so no more contact lenses. Lost of tone of those playing water polo - if nearsighted.

[Anonymous]

StonyBrook will give free tuition for someone like you.

[Anonymous]

Crazy strategy. I'd have my kid just focus on academics and get to school that way. Not a big fan of playing leg-up games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised Hopkins isn't getting more love here. Do people really think it's below UMD?

I don’t think Hopkins recruits for water polo. They do recruit for swimming and those kids tend to play on the water polo team for fun.

The two men's teams have no athletes in common.

Play on two teams? D1 swim and D1 water polo??!?

That would be insane.

FYI get lasic as a graduation present so no more contact lenses. Lost of tone of those playing water polo - if nearsighted.

Just to be clear both JHU teams are D3. The only D1 sport at JHU is lacrosse. They still don’t have shared players though.

[Anonymous]

Lehigh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son is a sophomore at Santa Clara’s school of engineering and loves it. He is receiving $24k/year in merit aid. They have a brand new $100 million engineering building. It’s all glass, so you can see the heavy equipment/labs from the outside. There are no TA’s. My DC gets a lot of attention. If you are going for merit, request the Bronco rather than Presidential Scholarship. You only need to maintain a 2.0 GPA to keep the Bronco, whereas it’s 3.0 for the other merit aid. From talking to other engineering majors, my son says it’s difficult to maintain a 3.0 GPA. There is no grade inflation at SCU.

+1 our DC turned them down due to distance, but it was really tough to walk away from that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A sport and engineering, expect for it to take 5 years to graduate.

FWIW my kid attended one of the schools being discussed here. Graduated in 4 with a BS and MS in a STEM subject while playing their sport. In fact, senior year, their team made it to the NCAA championships. Granted my kid wasn't a major contributor during games, but was still required to attend all practices/lifts/extra meetings and games. It's tough but doable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A sport and engineering, expect for it to take 5 years to graduate.

FWIW my kid attended one of the schools being discussed here. Graduated in 4 with a BS and MS in a STEM subject while playing their sport. In fact, senior year, their team made it to the NCAA championships. Granted my kid wasn't a major contributor during games, but was still required to attend all practices/lifts/extra meetings and games. It's tough but doable.

A “STEM subject” means not engineering. Bio maybe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised Hopkins isn't getting more love here. Do people really think it's below UMD?

I don’t think Hopkins recruits for water polo. They do recruit for swimming and those kids tend to play on the water polo team for fun.

The two men's teams have no athletes in common.

Play on two teams? D1 swim and D1 water polo??!?

That would be insane.

FYI get lasic as a graduation present so no more contact lenses. Lost of tone of those playing water polo - if nearsighted.

Both are d3 at Hopkins. That’s how it worked when I was there admittedly decades ago

[Anonymous]

It would be very difficult to finish engineering with a sport. Both require constant studying or practicing.

[Anonymous]

I'd also consider GaTech. Its engineering is stronger than most of the schools in your list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd also consider GaTech. Its engineering is stronger than most of the schools in your list.

Why do people keep doing this? OP has a list. OP isn't looking for additional recommendations. OP wants to know about the schools on their list in comparison with UMDCP. It's really not that hard, people.