Anonymous
Post 11/14/2025 08:58     Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Those looking at or applying to RPI should also check out Clarkson.
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2025 08:50     Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Here's a good reference

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-engineering/
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2025 08:38     Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mechanical

Pitt (accepted honors $20K a year)
Alabama (accepted)
RIT
UVA
GT
VT
Purdue
JMU
Vanderbilt
Northeastern
UTK


Maybe depending on Dec results
Rice
Princeton


If you are OOS GT has a 9% Acceptance rate. So I would put them down in the other category along with Vanderbilt.


Haha-no order-it was just as I remembering them. Yeah-GT is impossible OOS-we know that.


Neighbor graduated from Potomac (she was not in SERC) and turned down an Ivy to attend GT (was OOS from VA). Did well at GT and now is doing well in her workplace.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 20:59     Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Case Western
Carnegie Mellon
University of Rochester
Brown
Cal Poly
UCLA
Pitt
Lafayette
Lehigh


Mine is at Brown, loves it. Artsy engineer who wants collaborative environment.

Mine was also interested in Roch, Lafayette, Lehigh, Pitt, UMD (in state) and Cal Poly. Did not think CMU would have been the right environment.
Not listed above but seemed to be great programs w/ inclusive environments that were on my kid's list: Olin, WPI, Union, UVM, Yale, Dartmouth, Drexel
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 18:37     Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Undecided engineering major, BioE or chemE/materials; only applying to top schools that allow deciding later and easy to switch:

Penn ED
Princeton
Northwestern
Harvard
Hopkins
MIT
WashU
UVA(safety—100% accepted from past 6yrs with class rank and SAT, regardless of rigor and ours is top kid in everything)
Mich OOS(match from our private for top kids)


Is it difficult to switch between majors within engineering? So for example, switching from BioE to EE. My impression was that most kids take similar classes and that they can easily switch by 2nd year?


It depends very much on which 2 majors. BioMedE might require different courses from MechE starting as soon as 1st semester. Between AeroE and MechE probably one could switch as late as 4th semester.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 17:57     Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mechanical

Pitt (accepted honors $20K a year)
Alabama (accepted)
RIT
UVA
GT
VT
Purdue
JMU
Vanderbilt
Northeastern
UTK


Maybe depending on Dec results
Rice
Princeton


If you are OOS GT has a 9% Acceptance rate. So I would put them down in the other category along with Vanderbilt.


Haha-no order-it was just as I remembering them. Yeah-GT is impossible OOS-we know that.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 17:30     Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Undecided engineering major, BioE or chemE/materials; only applying to top schools that allow deciding later and easy to switch:

Penn ED
Princeton
Northwestern
Harvard
Hopkins
MIT
WashU
UVA(safety—100% accepted from past 6yrs with class rank and SAT, regardless of rigor and ours is top kid in everything)
Mich OOS(match from our private for top kids)


Is it difficult to switch between majors within engineering? So for example, switching from BioE to EE. My impression was that most kids take similar classes and that they can easily switch by 2nd year?
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 17:07     Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Reaches
MIT
Georgia Tech (OOS)
Cal Tech
Berkely (OOS)
Michigan (OOS)
UT- Austin (OOS)

Targets
Purdue
Maryland
Wisconsin


Sorry forgot to add. Chemical or Biomedical Engineering


What kind of medical practice does her father have?
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 15:22     Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Mechanical

Pitt (accepted honors $20K a year)
Alabama (accepted)
RIT
UVA
GT
VT
Purdue
JMU
Vanderbilt
Northeastern
UTK


Maybe depending on Dec results
Rice
Princeton


If you are OOS GT has a 9% Acceptance rate. So I would put them down in the other category along with Vanderbilt.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 14:02     Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Mechanical

Pitt (accepted honors $20K a year)
Alabama (accepted)
RIT
UVA
GT
VT
Purdue
JMU
Vanderbilt
Northeastern
UTK


Maybe depending on Dec results
Rice
Princeton
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 12:38     Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Son wants a smaller engineering school and is applying to CWRU, Colorado School of Mines, Rose-Hulman, WPI, RPI, and Milwaukee SOE.


While Mines seems popular on DCUM, I have never encountered it as a STEM hiring manager. I have heard good things aboutMilwaukee, but in a manufacturing/heavy industry context. I routinely have seen CWRU, RH, WPI, and RPI - and would happily hire from any of those for work in CS or ECE or AeroE. VCU might be a smaller VA in-state option — but only if they offer the specific degree DC wants.
.


I hire from there all the time.

Colorado School of mines is fantastic.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 12:25     Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:Son wants a smaller engineering school and is applying to CWRU, Colorado School of Mines, Rose-Hulman, WPI, RPI, and Milwaukee SOE.


While Mines seems popular on DCUM, I have never encountered it as a STEM hiring manager. I have heard good things aboutMilwaukee, but in a manufacturing/heavy industry context. I routinely have seen CWRU, RH, WPI, and RPI - and would happily hire from any of those for work in CS or ECE or AeroE. VCU might be a smaller VA in-state option — but only if they offer the specific degree DC wants.
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Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 10:20     Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Son wants a smaller engineering school and is applying to CWRU, Colorado School of Mines, Rose-Hulman, WPI, RPI, and Milwaukee SOE.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 08:02     Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
my kid ED'd to BC, whose program concerns me.

but we'll see
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 08:00     Subject: Which engineering programs is your DC applying to?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Undecided engineering major, BioE or chemE/materials; only applying to top schools that allow deciding later and easy to switch:

Penn ED
Princeton
Northwestern
Harvard
Hopkins
MIT
WashU
UVA(safety—100% accepted from past 6yrs with class rank and SAT, regardless of rigor and ours is top kid in everything)
Mich OOS(match from our private for top kids)


You are missing some heavy hitters for Engineering and specifically BioE, Chem or Materials off that list that rank well above what you've listed.


Perceived rank is not the only or best metric. Best fit school for the student matters more.