Anonymous
Post 06/30/2025 17:19     Subject: looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
Anonymous wrote:including doing things like building homes for poor, LDS kid so mission trips, very clearly. Still, building is building? also designing grey water system .

knows about BYU



Like what kind of B? A flat B will be tough. Good SAT score?
Rochester institute of Technology?
NJIT?
Take a shot at Stevens institute of technology and Colorado School of Mines
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2025 15:49     Subject: looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
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Anonymous wrote:University of Dayton! Great community and highly ranked engineering. I went there in the 90s.

By whom?


Not the PP, but Dayton does have a good engineering school. I think they’re around #50 in US News and in good company. They have ties with GE in the Dayton area and the grads are well regarded. We looked at it for my son who wanted a smaller to mid size school with engineering.

I just looked it up. USNWR ranks the undergraduate engineering program 125. Among Boise St., FIU, NC A&T, SD Mines, SMU, UAB, UAH, Louisville, Mass-Lowell, UNH, UNCC, Wisc-Milw and Wayne St.


Not bad company.

You can’t win on this forum. OP wants an engineering school for a B student. Engineers are saying it doesn’t really matter where you go to school. Someone then identifies a school that would take the B student and you poo poo it. Not helpful.

To me, the bottom line is that OP needs to accept that her student is not going to get into a top engineering school simply on the basis of ECs, but there are plenty of lower ranked ones that would give him a shot.


I dont think OP indicated in any way that she thought kid was getting into a top engineering school.

also: doesnt matter where you go to school for nursing or engineering, esp civil or mechanical
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2025 13:40     Subject: looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
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Anonymous wrote:My low stats, high EC/community service kid was accepted by Rose Hulman, WPI, and Clarkson.


Never heard of any of these!


Who are you? Unless you're an engineering hiring manager, whether you've heard of these schools is irrelevant.

Rose Hulman is top ranked among engineering schools that don't have grad students. WPI is in the top 100 and is known for project based learning and encouraging study abroad and community service.