Yes, our SoCal daughter selected SUNY Buffalo after being admitted to a number of elite universities.
Why?
She thought she would do premed and SUNY Buffalo had a program whereby if she attended, maintained a 3.5 GPA, and met with health advisors, she would receive “priority” access to to med schools in upstate NY. ( I’m paraphrasing the program.)
She had to take a bioengineering course and decided that the engineering portion of that course struck well for her.
She ended up changing majors to electrical engineering and computer software engineering (double major-5 years).
At Berkeley, her best friend was in the EECS program. So being the competitive person that she is, our daughter double majored so that she could be competitive with her friend and took the “EECS”coursework at Buffalo. She was the only engineering tutor at the senior level.
She returned to SoCal and instantly went up the corporate ladder becoming a manager. She was asked to train junior level engineers. She’s been told that she’s an excellent leader and teacher of engineering and software concepts. The trainees always request to be on her teams or to transfer to a program that will work with her.
Her analogies of physics properties makes her a popular speaker during meetings. Very proud of her.