Small, safety engineering school?

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Penn State satellite campuses offer ABET engineering—you can get the BS from the satellite campus or transfer to main campus to get it

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Anonymous wrote:Would need to boost SAT and GPA a little but Lehigh might be a good option. Small school, nice calm location.

Not for engineering or hard sciences unless she is okay with high pressure weed out classes where the class average on exams might be a 40 or 50. Granted, the professors will curve but it’s tough to sweat it out wondering if a 40 will really be a B. Lehigh prides itself on “rigor.” It’s a great school for business, pretty good for arts and sciences, but you need to be a masochist to subject yourself to Lehigh STEM. Yes, the rewards post-graduation are great, but the hoops needed to jump through to get there are not for the feint of heart.

True of every STEM program.

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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.

VA Tech engineering is extremely difficult to get into. Not a safety for even high stat students.

Her stats are in the green-ish (60/40) for our school for VA Tech. My son got in with a little bit higher GPA but lower test score.

That honestly shocks me. My son has a 3.7 UW and a 35 ACT (36 on Science, 35 math for a 36 STEM composite score) and I was under the impression that he has almost 0 chance of getting into VT engineering.

Those stats make it a safety from our school. May depend on the HS.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s so hard to get into any engineering school now. Unless it’s so bad that you wouldn’t want to attend. DD was accepted by Cal Poly SLO. She applied thinking it was a safety. It turned out that SLO’s acceptance rate was only 8%.

How did you not know this going it - acceptance rates are easy information to find.

Yeah. 🫢. We didn’t know this until AFTER she applied. Then someone forwarded me a SLO local newspaper article saying their overall acceptance rate is 8%. That’s OVERALL including In-State.

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U of Cincinnati
UA-Huntsville

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s so hard to get into any engineering school now. Unless it’s so bad that you wouldn’t want to attend. DD was accepted by Cal Poly SLO. She applied thinking it was a safety. It turned out that SLO’s acceptance rate was only 8%.

oof someone didn't do their hw on SLO. Yea, SLO is hard to get into for eng/cs.

I think you both have it wrong. Cals are for California residents. They are very hard to get into from OOS . But it still comes down to - do you really want to do engineering at Cal Poly SLO?

Wrong. US News ranks SLO #6 engineering school in the country without a doctorate program, even ahead of Cooper Union.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s so hard to get into any engineering school now. Unless it’s so bad that you wouldn’t want to attend. DD was accepted by Cal Poly SLO. She applied thinking it was a safety. It turned out that SLO’s acceptance rate was only 8%.

oof someone didn't do their hw on SLO. Yea, SLO is hard to get into for eng/cs.

I think you both have it wrong. Cals are for California residents. They are very hard to get into from OOS . But it still comes down to - do you really want to do engineering at Cal Poly SLO?

Why wouldn't you? Great place to go to college and strong pipeline to jobs in silicon valley.

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Not to mention SLO’s nice location along the coastline. And far enough away from LA.

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Rose Hulman is low on the female representation, if that is important to you. .Mines is a nice small school but also only about 30 percent female and the students don't seem very happy there (one person's opinion, of course). WPI could be a good option, can do data science/math/hard sciences/business if change mind from engineering. I would think with 3.5 unweighted that weighted would put that as a target. Over 40 percent female there and females generally see higher merit $$. Open curriculum, but fast moving with three courses per 7-8 weeks, so need to be able to handle that (my kid loves it). Largest lecture hall is 150.

ODU would be a safety. Don't know about nurturing, though. Friend seems to get decent advising there, lived in Engineering dorm freshman year.

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Anonymous wrote:Not to mention SLO’s nice location along the coastline. And far enough away from LA.

And wine country too 😊. Although we are not supposed to talk about alcohol on college forum 🫢

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How about Clarkson or Alfred in NY?

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Anonymous wrote:Not to mention SLO’s nice location along the coastline. And far enough away from LA.

And wine country too 😊. Although we are not supposed to talk about alcohol on college forum 🫢

Why not? Is that one of Jeff's rules? I've never seen that.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention SLO’s nice location along the coastline. And far enough away from LA.

And wine country too 😊. Although we are not supposed to talk about alcohol on college forum 🫢

Why not? Is that one of Jeff's rules? I've never seen that.

Thanks! Glad to hear there’s no Prohibition here 😊

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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.

Lehigh and Bates are going to be reaches with those stats

Bates also doesn't have engineering. I'd stay far away from the 3/2 programs.

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Anonymous wrote:How about Clarkson or Alfred in NY?

My 1310 kid applied to both of these and WPI. Got in to all 3 with merit.