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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which is your instate? I think it’s crazy to pay OOS cost for engineering majors. If MD, go to UMD. If VA, try VTech. If he is interested in research, bigger schools offer more research opportunities. Research exp is also necessary if he wants to get PHD at some point. I am an engineer and my son got his bs from UMD then PHD from MIT. Just as a reference.[/quote]

Baffles me why people don't consider in-state schools (UMD, VT) more for engineering.  UMD CS is great.  For VT, it seems like parents/kids look at the admin rate and don't think it's prestigious.  VT COE has gotten very difficult to get into.[/quote]

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Of course our kids consider in-state schools for engineering. My DC applied to 10 schools, 2 in VA (VT and UVA). But my kid is looking for biomedical engineering - VT, doesn't have an undergraduate major in BME. UVA has a great program but at $38k/year in-state, we were going to shop around. Merit aid at several privates and even publics got close to UVA's tuition and fees.

Also, UVA and VT are huge schools. There are wonderful smaller schools that appealed to my DC.

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