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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid with similar stats started with a very wide list and slowly narrowed it down based on fit.

GA Tech
Pitt
UMD
NC State
Duke
Rice
Northwestern
Hopkins
VT
U Michigan
RIT
RPI
Lehigh
Bucknell

Ended up EDing to Hopkins and loves it there

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Rice, VT, GT and U Michigan are best in engineering in this list. UMD depends; going down for a while so not sure. Hopkins could be ok[/quote]
I am interested to learn what you mean by “best”.  Best teaching?  Best research?  Best students?  Best facilities?  How did you gauge?  How did you know the relative merits?

As you know, US News rates engineering programs solely by what faculty and deans at other schools think of other programs.  That methodology sounds a lot like a popularity contest (though it admittedly could become self-fulfilling).[/quote]

It is a "popularity contest".  Where the more well known STEM schools will continue to be highly ranked, because who hasn't heard of MIT/Cal Tech versus a smaller lesser known nationally school (think WPI/RPI/Clarkson/etc).  That is why rankings rarely truly matter

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