| I wanted to add that there are a lot of international students and professors in most of the engineering programs. Some of the larger schools had entry level classes with hundreds of students - physics, etc, with TAs, for weekly smaller meetings. If this will work for your son, great, if not, you may want to think about a smaller program. Northeastern impressed me with how they have designed their program for kids to be successful in a large environment by assigning mentors, small groups, and living arrangements where groups of engineering students live amid other students but have study groups. They emphasized their desire to keep kids from dropping out of engineering freshman year. I don't know how it works in action - but it sounded good!
Is your son involved in any "engineering" type activities at school or outside of school? If not, consider seeking a summer job or research activity in the field. I spoke to a several admissions officers/deans who told me they look for evidence of outside passion for engineering or evidence that the student knows what engineering really is. |