Anonymous
05/04/2014 13:16
Subject: For undergrad engineering, UVA or Tech?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Va Tech, but it is difficult to get into. YOu must apply as a freshman in your application to the Engineering School. Of the 8 colleges, Engineering is the most difficult to get into, followed by architecture and two others. You must list a second college - not of the top four - as your second choice.
You can just enter as undecided, which is called "university studies" and then transfer into any major. Some are restricted - engineering - but if you take the pre-reqs it doesn't matter.
Wow. This is so not the case in real life. Sounds good, though.
Um, what? Read up. I have plenty of friends who transferred into engineering from university studies and are quite successful now. I also have friends who entered the College of Engineering as freshmen and transferred out and graduated with some other major.
http://www.admiss.vt.edu/majors/index.php/majors/major/US
So your eye roll is based on your first hand experience that's 15 yrs old?
Anonymous
05/04/2014 13:09
Subject: For undergrad engineering, UVA or Tech?
Anonymous wrote:For what it's worth, my sister and nephew attended the UVA engineering open house and were extremely unimpressed. She said it felt like she was walking through a middle school science fair.
Why did they say that? What did they expect?
Anonymous
05/04/2014 13:05
Subject: For undergrad engineering, UVA or Tech?
For what it's worth, my sister and nephew attended the UVA engineering open house and were extremely unimpressed. She said it felt like she was walking through a middle school science fair.
Anonymous
05/02/2014 11:13
Subject: For undergrad engineering, UVA or Tech?
Got accepted to both Tech and UVA, but decided UVA for EE instead. Had a lot of friends going to VT for engineering instead. 30 years later, base on colleagues that attends both, I say both programs are equally good. UVA is a lot closer to NoVA so that's a big plus!!
Anonymous
05/02/2014 11:03
Subject: Re:For undergrad engineering, UVA or Tech?
Virginia Tech for sure.
As someone in an engineering field that deals with recruitment, Virginia Tech is a much better school in that specific field. Recruiters are all over that place, and it has a lot of programs that give students hands on engineering experience.
Talk to engineers, but Virginia Tech is better. For everything else, UVA is better!
As someone in an engineering field that deals with recruitment, Virginia Tech is a much better school in that specific field. Recruiters are all over that place, and it has a lot of programs that give students hands on engineering experience.
Talk to engineers, but Virginia Tech is better. For everything else, UVA is better!
Anonymous
05/02/2014 09:08
Subject: For undergrad engineering, UVA or Tech?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Va Tech, but it is difficult to get into. YOu must apply as a freshman in your application to the Engineering School. Of the 8 colleges, Engineering is the most difficult to get into, followed by architecture and two others. You must list a second college - not of the top four - as your second choice.
You can just enter as undecided, which is called "university studies" and then transfer into any major. Some are restricted - engineering - but if you take the pre-reqs it doesn't matter.
Wow. This is so not the case in real life. Sounds good, though.
Um, what? Read up. I have plenty of friends who transferred into engineering from university studies and are quite successful now. I also have friends who entered the College of Engineering as freshmen and transferred out and graduated with some other major.
http://www.admiss.vt.edu/majors/index.php/majors/major/US
Anonymous
05/02/2014 08:55
Subject: For undergrad engineering, UVA or Tech?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Va Tech, but it is difficult to get into. YOu must apply as a freshman in your application to the Engineering School. Of the 8 colleges, Engineering is the most difficult to get into, followed by architecture and two others. You must list a second college - not of the top four - as your second choice.
You can just enter as undecided, which is called "university studies" and then transfer into any major. Some are restricted - engineering - but if you take the pre-reqs it doesn't matter.
Wow. This is so not the case in real life. Sounds good, though.
Anonymous
05/02/2014 08:53
Subject: For undergrad engineering, UVA or Tech?
Sorry, but it would be really silly to go to UVA for engineering. Here is the 2014 USNWR rankings for specialized engineering majors - UVA doesn't show up one time, but VT is ranked in the top 10-20 in every category except materials and biomedical engineering:
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ABE/AboutUs/NewsAndEvents/Spotlights/threepeat-for-abe-undergrad-programs/2014%20Undergraduate%20Specialty%20Rankings%209.10.13.pdf (this list has Purdue highlighted in each category but ignore that, couldn't find the list on USNWR for free)
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ABE/AboutUs/NewsAndEvents/Spotlights/threepeat-for-abe-undergrad-programs/2014%20Undergraduate%20Specialty%20Rankings%209.10.13.pdf (this list has Purdue highlighted in each category but ignore that, couldn't find the list on USNWR for free)
Anonymous
05/02/2014 08:48
Subject: For undergrad engineering, UVA or Tech?
Anonymous wrote:Va Tech, but it is difficult to get into. YOu must apply as a freshman in your application to the Engineering School. Of the 8 colleges, Engineering is the most difficult to get into, followed by architecture and two others. You must list a second college - not of the top four - as your second choice.
You can just enter as undecided, which is called "university studies" and then transfer into any major. Some are restricted - engineering - but if you take the pre-reqs it doesn't matter.
Anonymous
05/02/2014 06:56
Subject: Re:For undergrad engineering, UVA or Tech?
I've known a lot of kids who start off as engineering but then switch to something else. Regardless, I'd choose UVA, no question.
Anonymous
05/02/2014 01:02
Subject: For undergrad engineering, UVA or Tech?
Va Tech, but it is difficult to get into. YOu must apply as a freshman in your application to the Engineering School. Of the 8 colleges, Engineering is the most difficult to get into, followed by architecture and two others. You must list a second college - not of the top four - as your second choice.
Anonymous
05/02/2014 00:48
Subject: For undergrad engineering, UVA or Tech?
Anonymous wrote:UVa engineering grad here - if your kid is truly committed to being a working engineer, Va Tech is fine. However, if a kid ever wants to do something different during school or after, the kid will be much better off at UVA. A large number of entering engineering students fail out, and at UVA, these students can switch over to very well respected liberal arts programs. Also, I have many classmates who have gone on to do amazing things outside of engineering (become lawyers, doctors, start companies, work on Wall street, etc.).
That's a great point. I chose a higher ranked overall university vs. a lower ranked but higher ranked engineering program and I'm glad I did. once I found out that engineering really wasn't for me, it left me with a plethora of other, strong options. That probably wouldn't have been the case had I gone to the lower ranked school.
Anonymous
05/02/2014 00:36
Subject: For undergrad engineering, UVA or Tech?
Anonymous wrote:UVa engineering grad here - if your kid is truly committed to being a working engineer, Va Tech is fine. However, if a kid ever wants to do something different during school or after, the kid will be much better off at UVA. A large number of entering engineering students fail out, and at UVA, these students can switch over to very well respected liberal arts programs. Also, I have many classmates who have gone on to do amazing things outside of engineering (become lawyers, doctors, start companies, work on Wall street, etc.).
+1. Do well at UVA and then go to an awesome grad eng program.
Anonymous
05/02/2014 00:32
Subject: For undergrad engineering, UVA or Tech?
Anonymous wrote:VT alum here, so I'm biased, but Tech is ranked higher than UVA for engineering, and VT alums are highly-sought after in the eng'g industry. Just off the top of my head, a few of my eng'g graduate friends are working for GE, a satellite tech startup in Reston, and Alcoa.
Must be a regional thing. Never heard of the school until the mass murders.
Anonymous
05/02/2014 00:28
Subject: For undergrad engineering, UVA or Tech?
UVa engineering grad here - if your kid is truly committed to being a working engineer, Va Tech is fine. However, if a kid ever wants to do something different during school or after, the kid will be much better off at UVA. A large number of entering engineering students fail out, and at UVA, these students can switch over to very well respected liberal arts programs. Also, I have many classmates who have gone on to do amazing things outside of engineering (become lawyers, doctors, start companies, work on Wall street, etc.).