mikedk90

I have gotten into Purdue, Pitt, Maine, Miami (OH) and are awaiting Rochester. I will be going for M.E on a NROTC scholarship. I have always liked Rochester since I visited, but am afraid that since Engineering classes are scaled that since I am (if i get in) on the lower end of the specrtum....... classes will be harder. I like Miami alot as my second choice and I am abover average at that school. Umaine is a great eng. school but since I have a scholarship I would like to leave the state and avoid the 13th grade of Maine.
So bottom line does a harder school to get into make the engineering program more difficult for those who might barely get accepted?

sakky

Not absolutely. To such a maxim, a certain school in Palo Alto as one that clearly does not adhere. That place is almost certainly easier than numerous other schools that are not as difficult to get into.

Heck, if I may digress, I view that particular as one of the all-time killer deals in all of engineering education. You don't have to work that hard to get decent grades (relative to engineering students at other schools), yet you will earn one of the most prestigious engineering degrees in the world that will open doors to not only the best engineering firms in the world, but also many of the top consulting and banking firms in the world (which is why many of the engineering grads from this school never work a day in their lives as engineers). You are also located right in the center of what is clearly the world's dominant region of technological innovation and entrepreneurship: in fact, the epicenter of the world venture capital industry is located just a few miles away (i.e., what Wall Street is to investment banking, Sand Hill Road is to venture capital). Hence, that school out of all others offers you the very best chance of starting a new tech firm and taking your shot at becoming a young millionaire.

The catch, of course, is that you have to get in. But once you're in, it's all gravy.

mikedk90

Are Public Engineering Schools harder than Private because they are trying to weed out?

aibarr

As sakky said, I don't think you can generalize... Every program is different, to a certain degree.

sakky

Exactly: it's quite hard to generalize.

As a counterpoint, there's a certain private school in Pasadena that ain't no joke. Far from it, in fact. My brother went to that school and graduated with honors, yet he and I both agree that that school is just unnecessarily hard. Plenty of star students go to that school only to ruin their futures by performing poorly there - with some of them flunking out entirely - when they could have done perfectly fine if they had just gone to an easier school. For example, that one in Palo Alto.