Chance Me!

Hamurtle
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:05:09 +0000

All things considered, since you already have acceptances in hand and there is a good chance that you will get into at least 2 of your reach schools, you will need to consider affordability and best fit/best opportunities for your major.

If you are sticking with Engineering, Purdue and Georgia Tech are the way to go. Since you mention Notre Dame, I assume you’re from Indiana. Purdue would be the good in-state affordable option and is probably the best for Mechanical Engineering. And Penn State is pretty underrated in many areas.

For your reaches, Cornell probably has the best Engineering school, although it’s probably better known for EECS and BME. Next would be CMU, then NW.

WashU isn’t all that well known for its Engineering program (my kid goes there) although they are putting in the money for new facilities, which you probably have seen during your visit. Even at that they are better known for BME and the school has a stereotype where everybody and their friend is pre-med.

I’m not that familiar with Vandy Engineering although I had a coworker graduate from there in the late 90s with an EE degree and she said they could have been more focused on Engineering. In many respects they are pretty similar to WashU.