Anonymous
11/09/2025 23:38
Subject: Re:Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Stanford
MIT
Northwestern
Duke
CMU
Vandy
BU
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Pitt
UDel
UMD (in-state)
for BME
whoops forgot GaTech their #1 choice
No JHU? It’s highly ranked for BME.
Anonymous
11/09/2025 23:35
Subject: Re:Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Stanford
MIT
Northwestern
Duke
CMU
Vandy
BU
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Pitt
UDel
UMD (in-state)
for BME
whoops forgot GaTech their #1 choice
Anonymous
11/09/2025 23:11
Subject: Re:Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Stanford
MIT
Northwestern
Duke
CMU
Vandy
BU
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Pitt
UDel
UMD (in-state)
for BME
MIT
Northwestern
Duke
CMU
Vandy
BU
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Pitt
UDel
UMD (in-state)
for BME
Anonymous
11/09/2025 23:10
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:seeing Wisconsin often in these - is that a good school for engineering?
Wisconsin is roughly on the same level as VT and UVa for engineering.
It does have stronger campus hiring due to presence of many “traditional fortune 500” industries in and around Madison, and mid-west is general - compared to Blacksburg or Charlottesville.
Weather is not the best. And C’ville is probably a much better college town.
VT and Wisconsin are both ranked #14 for undergraduate engineering. UVA is #35. There's a huge difference.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate?myCollege=engineering-doctorate&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc
Anonymous
11/09/2025 22:49
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
I would not send my kid to Villanova for engineering.
A kid who can get into Villanova can probably get into Penn State or U Pitt.
A kid who can get into Villanova can probably get into Penn State or U Pitt.
Anonymous
11/09/2025 17:26
Subject: Re:Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
What do you think if your DC went to Villanova for engineering? If they're looking also for the religious/service aspect. Still worth it as a engineering degree even if not a super competitive, high rank engineering school?
Anonymous
11/09/2025 16:50
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:seeing Wisconsin often in these - is that a good school for engineering?
Wisconsin is roughly on the same level as VT and UVa for engineering.
It does have stronger campus hiring due to presence of many “traditional fortune 500” industries in and around Madison, and mid-west is general - compared to Blacksburg or Charlottesville.
Weather is not the best. And C’ville is probably a much better college town.
I think the last part is the most subjective, of course. Madison is a great college town, and Charlottesville always struck me as a bit rundown.
Anonymous
11/09/2025 16:33
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:seeing Wisconsin often in these - is that a good school for engineering?
Wisconsin is roughly on the same level as VT and UVa for engineering.
It does have stronger campus hiring due to presence of many “traditional fortune 500” industries in and around Madison, and mid-west is general - compared to Blacksburg or Charlottesville.
Weather is not the best. And C’ville is probably a much better college town.
Anonymous
11/09/2025 16:06
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote: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
I know what I’ve seen (here, and in real life) and there are definitely some
students with lower stats getting in to VT, and kids with higher stats getting rejected.
I guess “mediocre” can be subjective.
Anonymous
11/09/2025 16:03
Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't know which are targets or if all are reaches at this point, but for mechanical engineering:
VT--in state
Purdue
Michigan
GA Tech
UVA--in state
It's easy. Look at % acceptance. If OOS, GT has a 9% acceptance rate. For anyone, that's a reach. At that point, acceptance is very random. Not sure about stats on Michigan, but I'm guessing similar. Schools like Purdue, VT looking are at about 30% or higher OOS and In-state even higher % of acceptance.
Actually the opposite for VT, OOS acceptance is higher than instate due to a lower oos yield, they just need to accept more. In state VT acceptances from NOVA is unpredictable.
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