Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OSU
VTech
Ga Tech
Purdue
WPI

GA Tech has a 12.7% Overall Acceptance Rate and 9% OOS. If you that's your "target" school then cool. Good luck.

Yeah good luck because you don't understand the definition of target school in that case

Here's what you may comprehend...if a school on the list below has less than a 15% acceptance rate than I would not consider it a "target" for this profile, or for most, but a reach. Is that better?

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering

Anonymous wrote:My kid is very happy at UW Madison.

Same here. No need for more superlatives for the city of Madison.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OSU
VTech
Ga Tech
Purdue
WPI

GA Tech has a 12.7% Overall Acceptance Rate and 9% OOS. If you that's your "target" school then cool. Good luck.

Yeah good luck because you don't understand the definition of target school in that case

UMN and Pitt are the two obvious strong-but-accessible urban engineering targets here. They're both also rolling, so get those apps in ASAP for the best shot at strong merit aid.

Wisconsin probably also is a target (and wonderful), but he'll likely get deferred from EA and won't get any merit money, so I don't know that it ticks the particular box you're looking to check here.

On the other side of the country, Arizona State is huge, accessible, and urban, and its engineering program is pretty good. More of a likely than a target but worth considering.

ODU is a lower tier engineering program, but is definitely urban. Might be a safety with his stats, not sure.

Anonymous wrote:VA tech

+1. Largest engineering program in VA, and probably largest uni in VA by undergraduate students. Blacksburg is not even slightly urban though. Its a small college town in a rural area.

For MD in-state, it would be wise to apply to both UMCP and UMBC -- even if they are not towards the top of his preferred list.

Anonymous wrote:OSU
VTech
Ga Tech
Purdue
WPI

GA Tech has a 12.7% Overall Acceptance Rate and 9% OOS. If you that's your "target" school then cool. Good luck.

OSU
VTech
Gtech
Purdue
WPI

Anonymous wrote:Pitt, Minnesota, Ohio State, GA Tech, Wisconsin or Washington. The University of Cincinnati would also work but I think you could do better.

Emphasis on urban.

With that profile, GA Tech is a reach.

Anonymous wrote:Case Western is a mid sized private with good engineering and in a city.

Good suggestion- if you apply to Case Western, demonstrate interest. Also CU Boulder, RIT, and McGill in Montreal (such a fun city- and might end up being cheaper than US schools- he'd have to be ok with big classes though).

Anonymous wrote:Where should we consider for a boy with 1520 SAT, good IB predictions (44), and weak extra-curriculars? He prefers decent-sized cities to rural locations, and prefers bigger to smaller schools.
Thanks for any thoughts!

My kid had similar profile and preferences and chose Pitt. Loves it there.

Anonymous wrote:This is my DS, too. Has a lot of reach schools but very few targets and likelies that he’d actually attend. VA Tech and Penn State are on the list and while I don’t see him at a giant state school, that may be where he lands.

The other option is RIT, Rensselaer, Harvey- Mudd, etc. I think those are probably strong safeties but we haven’t visited them so don’t know their vibes.

Harvey Mudd is not a safety for anyone.

RIT and Drexel for larger private schools, but you'd have to want a coop model.

Anonymous wrote:I was just back at Purdue last week for the first time in decades, wasn't an engineer, but loved it. I think it's a pain to access as you have to drive the hour plus from Indi (not up to date on other offerings into Lafayette), but the school is huge and there is a ton going on in West Lafayette much less Lafayette. Growth everywhere. It doesn't fit my definition of rural in any way.

There are shuttles every hour or so from the airport to Purdue that take a little over an hour. Purdue also runs a regular shuttle between West Lafayette and downtown Indy.

Case Western is a mid sized private with good engineering and in a city.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are your public state school options?

UMD. But he would rather go further from home!

But that fits what he's looking for as a target.

U of Austin TX
Texas A&M
WI
WA

Other large state schools that come to mind, but that don't meet your requirements:

GA tech - reach
MI - reach
UIUC - rural
Purdue - rural

He is not getting into UT Austin.