Career path for high-stats undecided kid: yay or nay on engineering?

[Bill_Marsh]

@UpNorth2019

So, now we’re off to research LACs with engineering + merit $ + a decent-but-not-too-fast D3 team. (Fortunately, his sport is time-based so it’s relatively easy to figure out where he’d make the cut). And, of course, we’ll keep the club-sport-at-the-state-flagship plan as a backup.

He would absolutely love a LAC education. And then he’d be making the decision about engineering as a 21 year old rather than as a 17 year old, yet could still graduate debt-free with a M.S. by age 23 (he’s very young for his grade). All of these seem like very good things!

There are Engineering master’s degree programs, designed for students with non-engineering undergrad degrees. Examples with prereqs can be found at BU, RPI, and Northeastern among others.