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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So here’s my question …
Is it harder to get into Wisconsin for engineering than to get into Harvard engineering?
Harder to get into Purdue engineering than Columbia gnegineering? 
I just find it really challenging to built a “target” or “reach” list for engineering schools.    I don’t really have a sense of how hard it is to get into those top 30 engineering schools.[/quote]
It's significantly harder to get into Harvard or Columbia for engineering than Purdue or Wisconsin, simply because the Ivy League schools are more selective overall. However, most of the top 30 public engineering schools, like Purdue and Wisconsin are accessible to strong students. My current freshman was accepted at several of the Big 10 engineering schools but wouldn't have had a shot at an Ivy.

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Fact is you don’t go to T10 schools to do engineering… you can dabble a bit in it. In the hierarchy of things , engineering is not up there. It makes for a very good life - if u are a good engineer -  but that’s it. I speak as an engineer (immigrated in the early 90s)[/quote]

If you are an "engineer" .  The world is your oyster with an engineering degree especially from one of those top schools.  You can do so many things as far as careers that don't involve actually being "just" an engineer.  [/quote]

I agree with this. You can do so many exciting things with an engineering degree. Pretty sure the engineers at SpaceX are feeling very accomplished doing “just engineering.”

But getting an engineering degree from one of the traditional “elite” schools opens so many doors that maybe aren’t available to the Purdue grads. Finance and consulting are recruiting heavily among engineering students at the top 20 or so schools.

Because those students are always bright and disciplined and very good at solving real world problems. And it takes more than a high SAT score to get into a T20 school. And those soft skills translate.[/quote]

This is the truth. Go to the most elite school your kid can get into (provided they are unhooked and can handle it).
-Stem professor who has taught at ivy/elite and T75 publics. 
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So Professor, I should send my aspiring aerospace engineer to Dartmouth instead of Georgia Tech? Yale instead of GT? Notre Dame instead of GT?  These higher ranked school are really going to provide a better engineering education than GT?  Does Dartmouth or Yale even have a hypersonic wind tunnel or any wind tunnel for that matter? [/quote]

Why would you want to send your kid to the third best engineering program and second ranked Aerospace program in the country at a 1/3 of the cost if your kids’s fortunate enough to get in. Listen to the professor. He knows. I’m pretty sure he or she taught philosophy or English [/quote]

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