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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Out of those listed:

Boston College - Great humanities, probably good for business, not sure if they even have engineering
Indiana University - Great for business only
Purdue - Great for engineering only
UW - Madison - Probably decent at either
UT - Austin - Great for both business and engineering
Washington University in St. Louis - Great for business, not so sure about engineering

Waitlisted: 
Dartmouth College - Great for business, no engineering
University of Notre Dame - Great for business, no engineering
University of Virginia (OOS) - Great for business, mediocre for engineering.  
Vanderbilt University - No idea[/quote]

OP here again.  Thanks for the opinions.  However, Dartmouth and Vanderbilt do not have undergrad business (only econ.) so she would most likely do engineering and then pursue MBA if admitted off WL at either of those colleges.  At Notre Dame, HS Senior accepted into engineering, but could switch to Mendoza if admitted off WL.  As stated earlier, if WashU is decided on, HS Senior would double major b/w Eng. and Business (not too difficult to do at WashU due to AP, dual enrollment credits) to hopefully have more post-grad career options.  UT-Austin looks great on paper, but worried about % of in state students.  Is it difficult for OOS students to "fit in" at UT?[/quote]
Although Dartmouth doesn't have undergraduate business, its still very well-respected in finance in particular. A lot of top investment, private equity, and management consulting firms recruit from Dartmouth. I believe there is a concentration that students can do in finance along with whatever they choose to major in.
I'm not sure how Dartmouth is for marketing though, but I have to assume its decent.
The advantage of Dartmouth is that while for many of the listed business schools - UT, UVA, Indiana - the students have to be top of their class to be recruited into a good investment firm, at Dartmouth that's not as important, since its a small college and already has high entry requirements so firms assume the kids are already smart. 
There's also supposed to be very good alumni networking, but frankly I wouldn't base decisions on that since its still very much of a personal connections game, and wealthy kids will always cloister together with other wealthy kids.

UT-Austin is a massive school of 40,000 students, so I wouldn't necessarily worry about not being in-state. I think the bigger issue with UT-Austin is the massive class sizes, especially in introductory classes. McCombs (the business school) [b]has 6,500 undergraduate students[/b] - that's the entire size of some of the privates you have listed. 
But again for undergraduate business its among the best along with UVA/Indiana although caveats apply - like with UVA/Indiana the student has to be in the top of the class to get into the top firms.
For electrical/computer engineering, UT-Austin's degree is pretty much only behind MIT/Stanford/Berkeley/Cal Tech in rigor and respect and in the same league as Georgia Tech, Cornell, Michigan, et. al. But again they would be competing with a lot of undergraduate students for the same top jobs so they have to be top of the class to get the top jobs. 
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UT has more like 4,500 undergraduate majors.  6,500 would include graduate.  Graduates are in their own building.  The business school and engineering aren't to far apart.  It you are looking at combined quality of undergraduate and engineering programs, I think only a few schools would be as good or better (Berkeley, Michigan, etc.).  Engineering and Business seems like an awful lot to bite off.  UT is also excellent in computer science.

Dartmouth would be a different type of experience.  Tiny in comparison to UT, Purdue, IU, Wisconsin, and UVA.  You could major in a non-business field and still potentially get a position that only top business majors at other schools could get.  It would also be much more of a liberal arts type of experience.  I would go there if admitted off of waiting list.  The others, unless there is something uniquely compelling (e.g. some people just love Notre Dame), don't really add anything to prestige over WashU or aren't as strong in both business and engineering as UT.  I assume there are some differences in finance here, but not commenting on that.[/quote]

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