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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What kind of engineering?  If aerospace look at Purdue and Ga Tech.  UVA too  My DC has a female astronaut as head of department at UVA.[/quote]

OP here: Biomedical. My daughter has spoken to a few UVA grads. The consensus seems to be that it's a great program, heavy on theoretical, preparing most for consulting or straight entry to med school or grad school. Any thoughts?[/quote]

UVA is heavy on the theoretical in all its engineering programs it seems. Places like u of maryland prepare you for industry.
U of md has many applied classes and graduate school work thatvis applied (rotorcraft, space vehicles, fluid flow in a wind tunnel). 
Places like uva and Princeton are more theory - which means a lot of math just for maths sake if that makes sense.
Does she like that? I preferred applied engineering so I chose the big state school over uva (was probably a mistake though).

I had an engineering friend at u of md who had perfect grades in undergrad who went to Princeton for grad school in aero engineering and he left after a semester because he hated the theoretical program. He didn't like the lack of structure - no one guided him he was just supposed to figure stuff out and invent a new theory on his own and he wasn't up for it. He came back  to college park

It just depends how you are wired and what you like.

Medical school is not a bad route. Or she could go to another engineering graduate school program.[/quote]

I think she prefers the applied versus theoretical. Ideally she'd like the option to work in biotech straight out of undergrad, but has hopes to eventually go to grad school. At this point, she does not have aspirations for med school. Things may change of course. She does like math, but is eager to build, do, solve problems. [/quote]

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