Engineering programs that pay off the most for for lower income students

cptofthehouse
Thu, 29 Aug 2019 23:00:14 +0000

Sigh. Great schools, and of course if you can get accepted, and get through theses schools, particularly the engineering curriculum, you will do well.

I’m working with a first generation to college kid. Heck, he’ll be first generation of his parents and siblings to graduate from high school. Goes to a school that is just starting to add AP courses, the social studies. Parents are divorced; combined with stepfather, income and assets yield an expected contribution far more than they will pay.

Despite all of that, kid is coming up with a 700 math SAT1 with no test prep and mediocre courses. Sharp kid—600 verbal and a 3.5 UW gpa, probably a bit higher weighted as he is taking honors courses.

Wants to go into engineering, and getting a Job with a good chance of easy employment and decent would make a world of difference to him.

I don’t see him getting into those schools and if he did, his very unaware parents who dont have a dime saved, and are in debt from living beyond means already aren’t going to be able to pay. Not that they feel they should. A genius like their kid would surely have all the top schools clamoring for him and visions of bidding wars are dancing in their heads fueled by the emails and stuff they are getting in the mail from colleges and programs.

Best option likely commuting to local college, working part time and taking out Direct Loan. State U is 45 minutes away. Don’t know if the junker he’s likely to get will be up to the job. Other cousins who have gone this route have not lasted, and they had more support than this kid gets

I’m looking at schools like Manhattan College, SUNY Maritime, Webb Institute , Lasalle University, McDaniel , and also throwing schools in South Dakota, Nebraska with sticker prices of $15-20k.

I am ever so impressed with tiny Manhattan College! Look at the engineers they are churning out with those test scores!?! And at what price tag? It doesn’t take a whole lot to take kids with 1500+ SAT1s, and 5s in BC Calc at top schools through the engineering curriculum. With families supporting education every step of the way. Schools like Manhattan are taking kids that barely get 5 digit SAT scores, and turning them into engineers.

I would have liked to have seen a list of such schools