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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We were blown away by our tour, in a good way. I grew up in Massachusetts and always felt sorry for the students at the then commuter school. My son was lucky enough to have a mechanical engineering student lead his tour. He had already done 3 co-ops. As an aside, he told my son he had earned $70,000 while working them. One was a startup. The other was at an aeronautics company where he had to find out what was defective about returned parts. The other was at NASA. My DC is definitely applying. There are no supplemental essays required, and we can definitely afford it.[/quote]

Is it setup more like a trade school?[/quote]

Not at all- there is a core curriculum and many kids go there and get a solid liberal arts education, though there are a ton who are there for pre-professional programs (computer science, engineering, health sciences seem particularly strong).  The school just has a very specific identity/philosophy around getting real world experience and has built a first-rate co-op program as a result.

One of the things my DD really liked when we visited was the tour guide talked about how she did a co-op in her intended field during sophomore year and HATED it--it wasn't that the co-op was bad but she realized it was a bad field for her. She switched majors as a result.

As others have said, it might not be the right fit for every kid but it seems like a great place for some...and the few kids I know who go there are dynamos.[/quote]

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