Small, safety engineering school?

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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.

I know kids at all 3. (Clearly I have NY ties)
Happiest kids at Clarkson and Alfred.
The kid I know at WPI - the program was not a good fit and they were doing it for the wrong reason.

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Wilkes University in Pa is ABET in electrical & mechanical; U of Scranton is ABET just in electrical

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UW Milwaukee is ABET-accredited in multiple engineering disciplines & has an 89% acceptance rate. It is not small, however.

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Catholic University might be a good option.

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Elon is building their engineering program and has a beautiful new engineering building.

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SMU isn’t impossible with those stats.

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For a small school experience, one might look at Randolph Macon College in Ashland VA. Amtrak stop right beside the campus too.

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Anonymous wrote:Catholic University might be a good option.

+1...I would take a close look at Catholic U. Seems to fit your criteria. Not big, not a huge party school. Student body is nice, and lots of great professors.

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Anonymous wrote:For a small school experience, one might look at Randolph Macon College in Ashland VA. Amtrak stop right beside the campus too.

No engineering

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Anonymous wrote:For a small school experience, one might look at Randolph Macon College in Ashland VA. Amtrak stop right beside the campus too.

No engineering

They do have a small engineering program.

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Illinois Institute of Technology
Wentworth
NJIT
Trinity (TX) has some engineering and is small, but I don't think it would be a safety
Embry Riddle (two locations)

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In our recent search for small engineering programs, we looked for the following: 1) are the ABET accreditated (especially ME), 2) Is it a regular 4-year program? Or are they trying to sell you on the 3-2 programs, which I highly recommend you stay away from.

If you are willing to go to a mid-size school:
RIT - Engineering Technology program,

Smaller: Union, Clarkson, Quinnipiac University (very small, very new, but ABet accredited program - also it could be a safety with your daughters stats - they gave good merit aid).

With that said - any new program you aren't going to have the established alumni connections for jobs that older programs have.

Wentworth Institute of Technology - Boston

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Anonymous wrote:Catholic University might be a good option.

+1...I would take a close look at Catholic U. Seems to fit your criteria. Not big, not a huge party school. Student body is nice, and lots of great professors.

But just FYI it is very Catholic. I went there, was raised Catholic, and found it a little too Catholic. Not judging - for some people that's a great fit. But for those who aren't religious or are very politically liberal, it won't feel like a great fit.

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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%.

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.

it's a great school. Just plan on the 5-6 year plan to actually get the courses you want/need. If you manage to get out in 4, you can almost bet your technical electives are NOT the ones you really wanted for your interests---they were just whatever still had space or you had the pre-reqs for. IMO, not worth OOS tuition for the big school experience and all the bad that goes along with it.

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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%.

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.

it's a great school. Just plan on the 5-6 year plan to actually get the courses you want/need. If you manage to get out in 4, you can almost bet your technical electives are NOT the ones you really wanted for your interests---they were just whatever still had space or you had the pre-reqs for. IMO, not worth OOS tuition for the big school experience and all the bad that goes along with it.

Thanks. That’s good to know. I know someone who graduated from SLO with an architecture degree in the 90’s. Even bacj then it was an intense program. A bachelor’s degree took 5 years. He said over 2/3 of students were washed out in the first year—either changed major or dropped out. He said he had to pull a lot of all-nighters. Seems that SLO is a really serious school.