Dartmouth isn’t substantially larger than Middlebury and has an engineering program.

Anonymous wrote:DC suffers from terrible anxiety and will not do well at behemoths like HYS, although s/he has the stats and would be a legacy. Do Amherst/Williams/Middlebury, etc. offer non-CS engineering degrees? (I do have google, but I also would like to start a conversation and gets some ideas.)

I don't think most SLACs have engineering programs and if they do, not very strong. Have you considered a 3+2 program where the kid gets a degree from the SLAC in 3 years and spends the other 2 at another school to get an engineering degree? This way, the kid is more mature at 21 and is able to handle the larger environment.

I would think a 3 2 program may work. Because it doesn't seem like much a gamble that that the child would do well enough to get into the engineering at Dartmouth, Wash U, Columbia, etc. For others this is a huge gamble which almost never works out.

Or it could be just kicking the can down the road because the child will have to deal with the cutthroat culture when he or she gets to the engineering school.

Friend's kid is at Olin College of Engineering and loves it. Sounds exactly like the environment where your DC will thrive, and it's right outside of Boston too.

Look at Notre Dame. It may be too big of a school for your DD, but their college of engineering is strong and really supportive rather than cut-throat.
You also get some midwestern-nice that might be helpful for someone with anxiety

Anonymous wrote:Manhattan College, U of Dayton would be good choices.

People on this forum have posted that Manhattan is in financial freefall. I don’t know if that’s true — it’s too bad if it is.

Anonymous wrote:Manhattan College, U of Dayton would be good choices.

pp back. Sorry they are not elite. Elite schools are not the best for anxiety. Too much stress and striverism, competition, suicide…Take it a notch down and focus on good, accredited engineering schools with supportive communities, not elite schools.

Trinity
Union

both ABET

Manhattan College, U of Dayton would be good choices.

Anonymous wrote:Not technically "SLACs" and down a tier or two from WASP, but all are small:
Rose Hulman
Franklin Olin
Harvey Mudd
Bucknell
USD
Wake Forest
Lafayette
Lehigh

Not Lehigh, definitely not for a student in engineering with anxiety. Why engineering at all? Can kid handle not knowing grades all quarter or ending up with class 37 averages on assessments? Curved grading?

Tufts

Harvey Mudd, Rice, Carnegie Mellon

Harvey Mudd +++

Is she good with criticism? LAC environments are very heavy on feedback and can be taxing for students with anxiety, compared to large universities where you can just get lost in the crowd or never even show up to be in the crowd.