If you want to look at smaller schools, Swarthmore or Smith.

OP: Check this out. They are online profiles of undergraduate and graduate programs in engineering. It will give you an idea where your student is competitive in admissions to engineering programs, as well as gender/ethnic make up of the classes within the programs. We used this heavily along with Naviance.

http://profiles.asee.org

Also think about if the engineering programs are direct admit. Many big programs (state schools) require a certain GPA with limit on number of people they can accept per major within the engineering school.

Illinois.

(not the PP)

Illinois

Purdue

Rose-Hulman

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Anonymous wrote:Purdue

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They have 16 engineering majors and 1st year students have to take a course that explores all of those majors before declaring a major. Big time on site recruiting. They seem to offer merit aid sufficient to bring the costs to be competitive with in-state east coast tuition. They have a couple "Purdue Days" in spring with full day programs - we found that very informative.

What a waste of money and time.

What? Purdue is a fantastic school for engineering.

Anonymous wrote:Wow, fast replies, thank you!
Good student, first SAT was in the 1400s, looking at mechanical or aerospace engineering.
Doesn't really know what kind of environment, but not super-urban -- doesn't want to be in New York City but has said meh to Iowa State as well. Likes MIT, but it's a reach. Might consider a small school but is also looking at big state schools. That's one of the reasons I'm trying to gather up as many ideas as possible.

1400 isn't on the reach scale for MIT unless there are other hooks, like varsity athlete or some such.

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Anonymous wrote:Purdue

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They have 16 engineering majors and 1st year students have to take a course that explores all of those majors before declaring a major. Big time on site recruiting. They seem to offer merit aid sufficient to bring the costs to be competitive with in-state east coast tuition. They have a couple "Purdue Days" in spring with full day programs - we found that very informative.

What a waste of money and time.

Lots of good ideas so far.

My suggestion is to check out WPI.

WPI is not for everyone but it's project based nature really adds value to their enginneering program.

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Anonymous wrote:Purdue

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They have 16 engineering majors and 1st year students have to take a course that explores all of those majors before declaring a major. Big time on site recruiting. They seem to offer merit aid sufficient to bring the costs to be competitive with in-state east coast tuition. They have a couple "Purdue Days" in spring with full day programs - we found that very informative.

My DC is at Purdue. I would highly recommend Purdue. Merit aid is sparse, even with decent numbers, if the student is a white male. However, there has been no increase to the tuition in 5 years.

I know you said no super urban places, but I’ve been really impressed with Stevens Institute of Technology in NJ.

Oddly enough I have two friends who are aerospace engineers (it is odd because I am in an unrelated non engineering field and the friends are not connected to each other). One went to Wash U and the other to Lehigh and majored in engineering but not aerospace engineering - each then went on to earn grad degrees in aerospace engineeering, one at Stanford and the other at UCLA. So I’m chiming in to suggest your son may not want to limit his undergrad search to colleges with specifically aerospace engineering programs. As journalists I am sure you value strong writing skills, regardless of the profession. Thus you may want to take a look at some liberal arts colleges with engineering programs, like Davidson, Bucknell and Union College.

Anonymous wrote:Purdue

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They have 16 engineering majors and 1st year students have to take a course that explores all of those majors before declaring a major. Big time on site recruiting. They seem to offer merit aid sufficient to bring the costs to be competitive with in-state east coast tuition. They have a couple "Purdue Days" in spring with full day programs - we found that very informative.