Anonymous
02/09/2025 13:35
Subject: Please Help Suggest Low Reach/High Target/Target list for Engineering Majors
RIT, RPI, and WPI are all very good less heralded E schools. Ditto for GMU and UMBC. I would very happily hire an ECE from any of those.
Anonymous
02/09/2025 11:42
Subject: Re:Please Help Suggest Low Reach/High Target/Target list for Engineering Majors
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kid with similar stats started with a very wide list and slowly narrowed it down based on fit.
GA Tech
Pitt
UMD
NC State
Duke
Rice
Northwestern
Hopkins
VT
U Michigan
RIT
RPI
Lehigh
Bucknell
Ended up EDing to Hopkins and loves it there
Rice, VT, GT and U Michigan are best in engineering in this list. UMD depends; going down for a while so not sure. Hopkins could be ok
I am interested to learn what you mean by “best”. Best teaching? Best research? Best students? Best facilities? How did you gauge? How did you know the relative merits?
As you know, US News rates engineering programs solely by what faculty and deans at other schools think of other programs. That methodology sounds a lot like a popularity contest (though it admittedly could become self-fulfilling).
It is a "popularity contest". Where the more well known STEM schools will continue to be highly ranked, because who hasn't heard of MIT/Cal Tech versus a smaller lesser known nationally school (think WPI/RPI/Clarkson/etc). That is why rankings rarely truly matter
Anonymous
02/09/2025 08:27
Subject: Please Help Suggest Low Reach/High Target/Target list for Engineering Majors
Reaches: This list is probably obvious already.
Target: (make sure to show demonstrated interest and visit or you will be yield protected/denied
-Case Western)
-Purdue - Honors program
- Lehigh
Safety: (make sure to show demonstrated interest and visit or you will be yield protected/denied
- RIT
-RPI
U Boulder
Target: (make sure to show demonstrated interest and visit or you will be yield protected/denied
-Case Western)
-Purdue - Honors program
- Lehigh
Safety: (make sure to show demonstrated interest and visit or you will be yield protected/denied
- RIT
-RPI
U Boulder
Anonymous
02/09/2025 08:06
Subject: Re:Please Help Suggest Low Reach/High Target/Target list for Engineering Majors
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kid with similar stats started with a very wide list and slowly narrowed it down based on fit.
GA Tech
Pitt
UMD
NC State
Duke
Rice
Northwestern
Hopkins
VT
U Michigan
RIT
RPI
Lehigh
Bucknell
Ended up EDing to Hopkins and loves it there
Rice, VT, GT and U Michigan are best in engineering in this list. UMD depends; going down for a while so not sure. Hopkins could be ok
I am interested to learn what you mean by “best”. Best teaching? Best research? Best students? Best facilities? How did you gauge? How did you know the relative merits?
As you know, US News rates engineering programs solely by what faculty and deans at other schools think of other programs. That methodology sounds a lot like a popularity contest (though it admittedly could become self-fulfilling).
Anonymous
02/09/2025 07:57
Subject: Re:Please Help Suggest Low Reach/High Target/Target list for Engineering Majors
Anonymous wrote:My kid with similar stats started with a very wide list and slowly narrowed it down based on fit.
GA Tech
Pitt
UMD
NC State
Duke
Rice
Northwestern
Hopkins
VT
U Michigan
RIT
RPI
Lehigh
Bucknell
Ended up EDing to Hopkins and loves it there
Rice, VT, GT and U Michigan are best in engineering in this list. UMD depends; going down for a while so not sure. Hopkins could be ok
Anonymous
02/09/2025 07:31
Subject: Re:Please Help Suggest Low Reach/High Target/Target list for Engineering Majors
Anonymous wrote:Does Emory even have an engineering program?
No, but it does have CS.
Anonymous
02/08/2025 17:21
Subject: Please Help Suggest Low Reach/High Target/Target list for Engineering Majors
My DS had similar stats from a public school. But also exceptional ECs and national awards. Was interested in mechanical engineering. Considered:
UMD
Cornell
Rice
MIT
Northwestern
USC
McGill
Michigan
Georgia Tech
Purdue
UMD
Cornell
Rice
MIT
Northwestern
USC
McGill
Michigan
Georgia Tech
Purdue
Anonymous
02/08/2025 16:54
Subject: Please Help Suggest Low Reach/High Target/Target list for Engineering Majors
Anonymous wrote:DS had similar stats. His list was:
Cornell
Michigan
UMD
GA Tech
NC State
Pitt
Rice
Wisconsin
Virginia Tech
Colorado School of Mines
Went to UMD Honors College.
If you don’t mind sharing, where all did he get in? What kind of engineering?
Anonymous
02/08/2025 14:37
Subject: Please Help Suggest Low Reach/High Target/Target list for Engineering Majors
Anonymous wrote:Most prospective engineering students know which major(s) they want. Not all engineering schools offer all majors. So once you have a list of candidate schools, then filter for schools that actually offer the desired major(s).
If not MIT or Caltech, verify the E School is ABET accredited (most are).
This is good to know. I was under the assumption that most are, but perhaps not and great idea to check.