My S24 got admitted into Columbia Engineering as an Egleston Scholar. Does anyone have advice on whether the Scholar program provides material benefits to a student in their program? Besides what is said on Columbia’s website, we can’t find much information in forums from recent times. We are trying to decide whether Columbia Engineering with Egleston is better than Georgia Tech and UIUC.
If S24 wants to work on Wall Street then Ivies see 1/3rd more of their engineers go this path. It may be a bit harder from the others.
Being an Egleston scholar sounds like a nice benefit but engineers from the other two schools are also highly regarded in industry, and the Ivies are not seen as the crème de la crème . Stanford, Caltech, MIT – those are the kings. IMO he will get a strong education at any of these so on fit (cost, location, type of students that attend, etc)
Does Caltech students have a good reputation in the industry? Looking at the curriculum they seem to be focused more on research, rather than practical skills. Is it that students who learn how to think become good assets?
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