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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are 501 seniors, so the Instagram account — with only 140 posts so far — is going to be a mostly incomplete dataset. But the top destinations (so far) from the (very incomplete) Instagram account:
Purdue - 12
UVA - 8
William & Mary - 7
Penn State - 7
U Maryland - 6
U Michigan - 5

Agreed with the poster above — don't expect a HYPSM / T20 university if your kid goes to TJ.[/quote]

[b]For those obsessed with T20 rankings, Purdue, Penn State, Maryland, and Michigan are all top 20 for engineering, with Purdue and Michigan considered among the best engineering schools in the country, even when compared to the Ivies, CMU, and JHU. It's likely that some STEM kids from TJ consider Purdue their equivalent of Harvard, especially when factoring in OOS costs.[/b]

What I find interesting is the absence of VT from this list. Students from my kid's NOVA public school often apply to Purdue and Penn State as alternatives to VT for engineering, as these schools are actually easier admits for NOVA kids applying OOS than VT is for in-state applicants. Purdue and Penn State were certainly my kid's backup options if rejected from VT. [/quote]

LOLOL engineering “rankings” are crap [/quote]
I agree - rankings are crap. But I can only assume that TJ students and their parents don't share that view. Take Purdue, for example. It's generally considered a top engineering school and currently ranks eighth for undergraduate and fifth for graduate engineering programs in the U.S. As one of the previous posters mentioned, it has had the highest number of Instagram admit posts for two years, with 19 admits in one year alone.

So either TJ kids just love the flat cornfields of rural Indiana and the cultural hub that is West Lafayette, or they're attending Purdue because of its top engineering and other STEM rankings. I think the latter is true. [/quote]

I think Purdue is very affordable OOS.  That probably has something to do with it.[/quote]
Nah, it's all about the ranking. [/quote]

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