<p>The quality of accepted students days varies quite a bit. My older daughter thought Penn State’s was great, though she didn’t end up attending there, she chose Pitt instead. For Pitt, I don’t recall that she attended an accepted students day, but she did visit again and sat in on some classes.</p>
<p>My younger daughter attended an accepted students day visit at Delaware which was her second visit and it was a total waste of time. I think that a lot of students who do accepted students day visits have not visited before, and a lot of the presentations will be stuff you already heard/knew about if you previously visited the college.</p>
<p>I haven’t been on this thread for a while, but if anyone has questions about Pitt or Drexel please feel free to PM me.</p>
<p>Behind the times, as usual. I just want to wish you all a shana tova. I’ve been off the boards for a while, but it’s time to jump back into the fray as D3 is a HS junior now. I’m scared to hop onto the Class of 2015 board…they seem like a competitive group.</p>
<p>We did find the accepted students days worthwhile. First of all, we were in a different mindset. They don’t need to spend any time talking about admissions or how to get in - everyone already is. Also, since my daughter was applying to engineering schools, the programs we went to were geared to engineering. We learned a lot more specifics about the programs. The accepted students day was probably what convinced her (and us) to pick her final school.</p>
<p>Thank you to all who have given feedback. We visited several schools, a few came off the list, some were just ok and one or 2 piqued hers and our interest. However, we have not visited about 6 of the schools (out of 12) and I’m trying to decide if we should just wait to see if she gets in to visit others. She is a senior.</p>
<p>we visited about 6 schools and now I am waiting to see where he gets in before visiting others. My son is a senior too. If he doesn’t get in to his #1 or 2 choice then we will visit the ones he did get into… assuming he gets in somewhere?</p>
<p>The admitted students programs helped my daughter decide between her top two choices. I think they got a bit more into detail on quality of life issues, advising services, etc.</p>
<p>A friend sent several articles to me regarding Judaism on college campuses since she knows my daughter and I are in the throws of the college search madness:</p>
<p>Not sure Miami can really be considered for a B student anymore… but might be worth it for you to consider if you have a B/B+ student with high test scores, rigor, good ranking. For this year, UM revised its scholarship page to give the scholarship committee more leeway in awarding merit aid. </p>
<p>My DD applied EA to a few schools. Do schools notify you of their decision online and in writing? Any idea when she should be checking the online school accounts for notification? ( I realize schools may do it at different times, just trying to get a feel for what DDs next steps should be.)</p>
<p>It depends on the school. You can get a good idea of when to check online from the forum for that school here on CC. Look to see when decisions for EA were posted last year.</p>
<p>Hi! This is my first post here. I am wondering if anyone can suggest a mid-sized East Coast school with a good engineering program and an active Hillel for an A student with SATs just under 2000? He has a bunch of reaches–Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Tufts–and three match/safeties (two state schools and Dalhousie in Halifax, NS) but not much in between. Finances are a problem–we fall into the upper middle class group that will probably get little for need-based aid but don’t have enough in the bank or a 529 to cover $200,000 worth of education!</p>
<p>Hi Lawdoc. Have you considered University of Pittsburgh? I think it meets all your criteria. The tuition (even on an out of state basis) should be more affordable than the private universities you mention.</p>
<p>So why are you even applying to those reaches? They will each cost over $250K, and you will get little if any aid. If that’s not affordable, why waste the app fees and get your hopes up for nothing?</p>
<p>A little above midsize, but consider Alabama. With 3.5 GPA and 1330 SAT (M+CR), he would get full tuition scholarship plus $2500 per year. Total COA about $12K. Stunning campus, including massive new engineering complex and some of the nicest dorms you will ever see. Hillel is quite active.</p>
<p>Others that meet your criteria include Maryland, Delaware (esp. chemical engineering), SUNY Buffalo, and Binghamton. Several other privates meet your criteria, but they’re just as expensive as those you’ve listed.</p>
<p>IMO smaller schools are often overrated for engineering unless they’re tech schools or particularly noted for engineering. For a variety of reasons, most which have been discussed ad nauseum on the engineering board, larger state schools are usually the way to go.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input! I was wondering about Maryland, my friends’ daughter looked at it and really liked the campus. I tried to get son to look at southern schools but he didn’t seem interested. Husband is an engineering prof and has veto power over schools and keeps eliminating places like UMass Amherst, don’t ask why!
I vetoed any Ivies but we do have family connections at Vanderbilt and Northwestern, although who knows if they will help. If it was actually me applying those two would be eliminated but I don’t think I ought to be picking his schools, especially as he is paying the application fees out of his own money. With his straight A’s, varsity sports, and extracurriculars he probably has a shot at getting in but the net price calculators are quite scary!
Does anyone know anything about Clarkson in Potsdam?</p>
<p>lawdoc, since your husband is an engineering prof, won’t you be entitled to a tuition discount at his school (and sometime these discounts are transferrable to other schools)?</p>