Anonymous
11/09/2025 15:17
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:seeing Wisconsin often in these - is that a good school for engineering?
Yes. Engineering is such a competitive major that even the best students have Wisconsin somewhere in the mix. It's a perfectly good option. Especially since so many public universities for engineering - Georgia Tech, Illinois, Michigan, Purdue, Texas - basically require Ivy stats these days.
Anonymous
11/09/2025 15:06
Subject: Re:Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
DC (mech e) is applying to many of these. Plus Rose Hulman which I don’t see listed yet
Anonymous
11/09/2025 14:43
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:seeing Wisconsin often in these - is that a good school for engineering?
Yes, it's not top tier but certainly above average.
Anonymous
11/09/2025 14:41
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
seeing Wisconsin often in these - is that a good school for engineering?
Anonymous
11/09/2025 14:36
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:In case it's helpful, my kid, HS class of '25, applied to:
Cornell (reach)
Hopkins (reach)
CMU (low reach)
UMD in-state (target)
VT (safety)
Attending UMD with honors and merit. Accepted at VT, WL at CMU, and rejected from Cornell & Hopkins.
He applied as engineering, undecided. If the university required a specific major within eng, I'm not sure what he put.
Great that your kid got in, but VT engineering really isn’t a “safety” for anyone.
Every year when decisions come out you see high stats kids rejected, and mediocre kids accepted.
Just my observation, my kids didn’t apply to VT.
“Mediocre”? Sorry, no. Some kids are accepted and others are not. Mediocre is definitely not accepted.
DP
Anonymous
11/09/2025 14:35
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Same as everyone else:
UVA
VT
Michigan
Purdue
Lehigh
Cornell
Penn State
Colorado Boulder
In state for VA, applying chemical
Delaware outranks all of those in chemical
No one has even mentioned Delaware.
DP
Anonymous
11/09/2025 14:25
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Targets -
Wisconsin - in state
Minnesota - in state
Purdue
Reaches-
MIT
Berkeley
Cornell
How could they be instate for two states?
Something fishy there.
We are Minnesota residents, but reciprocity agreement considers us in state for both tuition (we pay higher MN tuition vs WI one) and for admission at Wisconsin schools.
Minnesotans are also considered in-province in Manitoba, Canada which is a nice option. Can attend for under $17500 a year all inclusive, but the higher ranked programs in Canada are elsewhere.
Anonymous
11/09/2025 14:09
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Targets -
Wisconsin - in state
Minnesota - in state
Purdue
Reaches-
MIT
Berkeley
Cornell
How could they be instate for two states?
Something fishy there.
We are Minnesota residents, but reciprocity agreement considers us in state for both tuition (we pay higher MN tuition vs WI one) and for admission at Wisconsin schools.
Anonymous
11/09/2025 14:09
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:In case it's helpful, my kid, HS class of '25, applied to:
Cornell (reach)
Hopkins (reach)
CMU (low reach)
UMD in-state (target)
VT (safety)
Attending UMD with honors and merit. Accepted at VT, WL at CMU, and rejected from Cornell & Hopkins.
He applied as engineering, undecided. If the university required a specific major within eng, I'm not sure what he put.
Great that your kid got in, but VT engineering really isn’t a “safety” for anyone.
Every year when decisions come out you see high stats kids rejected, and mediocre kids accepted.
Just my observation, my kids didn’t apply to VT.
Anonymous
11/09/2025 13:30
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Same as everyone else:
UVA
VT
Michigan
Purdue
Lehigh
Cornell
Penn State
Colorado Boulder
In state for VA, applying chemical
Delaware outranks all of those in chemical
Lots of kids change major and/or drop from engineering. Good idea to go to best school
Anonymous
11/09/2025 13:19
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Same as everyone else:
UVA
VT
Michigan
Purdue
Lehigh
Cornell
Penn State
Colorado Boulder
In state for VA, applying chemical
Delaware outranks all of those in chemical
Anonymous
11/09/2025 12:58
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Case Western
Carnegie Mellon
University of Rochester
Brown
Cal Poly
UCLA
Pitt
Lafayette
Lehigh
Same except for the CA schools
Anonymous
11/09/2025 11:31
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Targets -
Wisconsin - in state
Minnesota - in state
Purdue
Reaches-
MIT
Berkeley
Cornell
How could they be instate for two states?
Something fishy there.
It's reciprocity. "The Minnesota/Wisconsin Reciprocity Agreement allows Wisconsin residents to attend Minnesota public universities at in-state tuition rates." https://www.wisconsin.edu/reciprocity/
Anonymous
11/09/2025 11:20
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Targets:
Michigan (in state)
Purdue
Wisconsin
Reach:
Cornell
Northwestern
MIT
Michigan (in state)
Purdue
Wisconsin
Reach:
Cornell
Northwestern
MIT
Anonymous
11/09/2025 10:51
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Targets -
Wisconsin - in state
Minnesota - in state
Purdue
Reaches-
MIT
Berkeley
Cornell
How could they be instate for two states?
Something fishy there.