@mom2aphysicsgeek, my comment that “none of this speaks to the OP” was just that you two seemed to be locked into a discussion about aerospace engineering, employment at Lockheed Martin, and some very specific schools, including one of the top-ranked schools (MIT) and a lesser-known school in aero (UCF). It started with a mention of ABET:
and seemed to me not to speak to the OPs fundamental question about the importance of undergraduate school if one were planning to go to grad school.