Anonymous
Post 03/03/2023 12:55     Subject: Small schools with engineering that offer good merit
Sweetbriar
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2023 12:51     Subject: Small schools with engineering that offer good merit
Anonymous wrote:Agnes Scott (women’s college) gives lots of merit and has a 3-2 engineering program with Georgia Tech.

No one should do a 3-2 program unless they change their mind about their major after they start undergrad. A 5th year is expensive and the program is never as good as just studying engineering from the start.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2023 12:39     Subject: Re:Small schools with engineering that offer good merit
My son got $24,000 of merit per year from WPI (he is a HS senior now). Good, not the best stats. He has a 93 UW average with 6 APs and a few honors classes. Robotics ECs with some leadership. This is the only small-ish school he applied to. I was really surprised!

At WPI, you can also compete for a FIRST robotics scholarship that looks pretty generous, if the student has participated. But, I think my kid is going to another school. He does like WPI, and knows of students having a great experience there.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2023 08:32     Subject: Small schools with engineering that offer good merit
Agnes Scott (women’s college) gives lots of merit and has a 3-2 engineering program with Georgia Tech.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2023 08:27     Subject: Small schools with engineering that offer good merit
Sweet Briar apparently has a very good engineering program. Women’s college
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2023 08:23     Subject: Re:Small schools with engineering that offer good merit
Clarkson. Try for the Honors Program.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2023 06:19     Subject: Small schools with engineering that offer good merit
Trinity in Connecticut
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2023 00:42     Subject: Re:Small schools with engineering that offer good merit
Union college.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2023 00:18     Subject: Re:Small schools with engineering that offer good merit
Rose-Hulman.
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2023 19:26     Subject: Small schools with engineering that offer good merit
Anonymous wrote:Bucknell. Gave terrific aid and cost what a state school would have for us.


Wow, that's great! But, how fratty is the campus? I've heard that it has heavy drinking and kind of a bro culture. Read about the LGBTQ house being harassed by the frat. Is this exaggerated? How is the student climate?
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2023 19:23     Subject: Small schools with engineering that offer good merit
Any more info on Lafayette, Union, U Vermont, U Rochester (is it really that skimpy on merit?), Pitt, Drexel or WPI? Thanks!

Girl interesting in engineering w/ 3.9+ UW, 4.7+W, 35ACT

Also, anyone w/ experience at Manhattan College? Would love to hear more about that!
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2023 19:22     Subject: Re:Small schools with engineering that offer good merit
Engineering professor here. Bucknell is known for their quality undergraduate teaching in engineering.
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2023 19:20     Subject: Small schools with engineering that offer good merit
Bucknell. Gave terrific aid and cost what a state school would have for us.
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2023 16:39     Subject: Re:Small schools with engineering that offer good merit
If you're willing to send them to the west coast, my son (3.5 gpa) was accepted at Denver with 27k merit. They have 5k students and engineering.
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2023 16:37     Subject: Small schools with engineering that offer good merit
Another SO for Clarkson, gave DS a really nice offer and he was not a hooked kid in any way.

URochester on the other hand disappointed us with aid for my other very strong student.