I agree W&M is a good add even if it doesn’t offer engineering. Top tier school at in-state prices is hard to pass up. Kick the decision until April.
Run the NPC’s for your schools. Maybe add Case, Rice, Lehigh or Northwestern to your list. Especially for IE. WVU would work but would you pick it or similar over JMU or George Mason?
Son started business at Georgia Tech and switched to IE after a semester. I don’t know if I’d call them adjacent. On paper maybe but not in reality.
The IE students essentially had the same track as the other engineers, at least for the first 2 years. Lots of math (of course) similar to other engineers except an upper level differential class or similar. Maybe not as rigorous as ME, EE or Aero but still more than business.