Stevens is 1-5 subway stops from Wall Street and Silicon Alley. If the market does not crash your son will have well paid CS internship every summer and maybe even during the year. For a Pell family decision is a no-brainer. For example, quick search shows this event:
http://www.stevens.edu/news/content/credit-suisse-networking-event
Note that it is geared towards freshmen and sophomores.
Top student will have access to all existing opportunities
Erin’s Dad, yes, except if you are one of those engineers or math majors the comparison works. RPI might have a few non- STEM majors, but comparing Stevens ROI to RPI’s ROI should be fairly close for engineers. Basically, they are the same (and no different than just comparing the engineering dept at Penn State to RPI without adding in all those low earning English or music majors).
UA’s engineering school has very good stats for jobs and good solid incomes.
Yes I am aware of the tech bent on these rates schools. Just wanted to put some light on Stevens.
DD graduating from UA in engineering will have solid ROI in light of her great scholarships.
A key thing is to be able to have a job/career that one enjoys and is successful at - and can afford a standard of living (and can live within one’s means). DD realized she could utilize her math and science abilities to be in a career that she could afford herself. Other DD is studying nursing, and she also can support herself after graduation.
The earlier one can ‘find’ their passion, and their abilities in that passion are good and they can support themselves, the sooner the student can work towards that career goal. If one pursues a field that is tight for employment and tight on salaries, a student has to have the tenacity and personal makeup to find a career where they can live life and be successful (even if it means living on a limited budget).
Kelsmom, so if you tell a college about a better offer from another school I guess you are saying you better have other reasons that you need more money? An institution will not give more because a peer school has offered more?
@tdh3K at risk of putting words into @kelsmom’s mouth, the reason is because the institution can’t afford to give more. Steven’s doesn’t have the bottomless pockets that a school like Harvard has.
Actually, Erin’s Dad, it is RPI that doesn’t have those bottomless pockets. There have been articles written about RPI’s large debt. I wonder how concerned I should be about sending my child to a school having financial issues. If anyone has any opinions on this, please feel free to give them. Thanks.
Sorry @Erin’s Dad, that was just a general question. We are actually doing an appeal letter and were wondering how best to present another offer without sounding unappreciative or disrespectful to her DD #1 choice.
@flash789, RPI has an endowment of $600M+. Stevens is in the range of $150M.
@tdh3k, You can try to appeal. Just don’t get your hopes up. 
Thanks, Erin’sDad. So I guess it isn’t that RPI can’t afford it.
So is it Stevens @Flash789? or another school?