Does anyone actually care where I go to school (engineering)?

BrownParent
Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:35:34 +0000

You have to decide if you can achieve your potential there. It has little to do with acceptance rate of other students unless you feel the classes are going to be too slow. If you are so much better than everyone else it will be easy to make yourself a superstar and all the profs will want to work with you. It is the upper division classes you can expect to have more peers and the others will have been weeded out. A good transcripts with continued research should get you where you want to go and even though I think your are off base about research opportunities and the focus not being on engineering careers, perhaps a bit too naive a a first year–what really matters is where you are happy and performing well, and the affordability