A little help?

College Majors Engineering Majors
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<p>I love learning about how they build stuff, and how stuff works. But more specifically I love learning about the structures themselves. How they carry immense weight, their maximum loading weight, and how they can be used to their full potential. LEGOS for this reason we’re my favorite toys as I loved being able to see how using different sized pieces can help strengthen the overall building, train, airplane, etc, depending on how they we’re placed, and combined. Being near New York City, the bridges fascinate me due to the strength and beauty of their great spans, in particular the Brooklyn Bridge is my favorite. I love learning about how things work, and trains, more specifically, are my favorites, especially steam locomotives. I am always in a state of awe as I see the power of simple steam produce an immense amount of forward motion. I have a hobby for taking devices apart that don’t necessarily work anymore, and either exploring how it used to work and/or fixing it. Another thing, anyone can tell you, is I am a big gear head, and for that reason any machine, from a roller-coaster, to a printer gets my head started, and I can watch machines work ALL-DAY long. </p>

<p>With a little background, what major do you guys recommend (even a double)?</p>

<p>Any advice on schools as well? I live in the Northeast, female, and I prefer to stay in the north east area…I will go farther though, if its necessary for a top undergraduate education, to eventually go for a graduates degree.</p>

<p>(MIT, and Ivies are out of league for me thanks to GPA, despite my mom going to UPENN and my uncle getting two full rides to MIT for a master’s and a doctorate’s in chem engineering)</p>

<p>I was thinking Lehigh, Villanova, University of Michigan, and RPI. Any other thoughts?</p>

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<p>You need to provide your numbers in order to for anyone to give you worthwhile guidance. You indicate the ivies are out, but what about schools like Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon or Cooper Union? Without actual GPA (weighted/unweighted), SAT, ACT and class rank, I’d be stabbing in the dark.</p>

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<p>Yeah definitely post up some stats so we can give some good suggestions.</p>

<p>About your major, I think mechanical would suit you best. I say that because I feel the same way you do (and I’m sure most engineers do also), I always had a knack for taking things apart just to see how they worked. The things you described mostly relate to mechanical (as in, working parts in a machine), or civil engineering (structures and buildings, things like that). If you google some topics, you can learn a lot more about each, because I think if anyone tried to explain it they’d be generalizing the disciplines (civils build buildings, electricals build circruits, and mechanicals build machines).</p>

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<p>Well right now my SAT and ACT scores are non existence, I’m taking my first practice test in a half-hour, just to see where I stand. My current gpa is around a 3.6/3.7, but my courses could be a lot more rigorous. I’m most likely in the upper 30% of my class…I was looking at the colleges who sent me letters, and I saw Drexel, Rowan, and Rutgers would be good choices, especially since I’m in New Jersey. But primarily I just want a good list of schools to start looking at, and seeing how hard I have to push if I want to get accepted…You know, curiosity strikes every once and awhile.</p>