<p>My D has been admitted to U of I-Chemical Engineering, University of Iowa-Biomedical Engineering and Minnesota- BioMedical Engineering. At this point in terms of scholarships they are all about the same. Illinois-$10,000 per year, Iowa-$13,000 and Minnesota is just a good price for OOS. Living in Illinois we had figured that Illinois would have been out of reach , but were pleasantly surprised with the 10k annual award. That being said our D likes Iowa and she will visit Illinois again soon for specialized tours for women in engineering. I am looking to get feedback from current U of I students about scheduling classes. I am always hearing that students will not finish in 4 years, not because of their own merit, but because they cannot get the classes they need. Is this really true for an engineering student? I understand this could happen if you do study abroad, fail a class, or am just lazy and don’t get registered soon enough. Any thoughts would be helpful.</p>
<p>UIUC without a doubt</p>
<p>Many Engineering programs are packed with course requirements which make them hard to complete in 4 years unless you have significant AP credit or take course overloads and summer school (but many upper division courses are not available in the summer so this limits the possibilities). It is not a question of being lazy or failing a class, just the amount of classes required.</p>
<p>@0fftherails: my son has also been accepted to those schools for engineering but is considering Iowa due to the smaller size. I am curious as to what 13k scholarship your D has been awarded? My son received the National Scholars award but we will not know about the old gold or presidential for awhile…</p>
<p>I disagree with the fact that its hard to graduate in 4 years. Im currently in the materials science and engineering program and UIUC and they have so many mentors there to help you out and I know my major (and I think all the engineering ones do) have a chart of the required classes and what you have to take each semester to graduate on time without coming in with any AP credit or summer school</p>
<p>i agree with the above. most people do graduate in 4 years granted they follow the curriculum and take all the classes necessary. many people will push off classes so that their semester courseload is lighter, and in that case they’ll stay for a victory lap. other people who stay an extra year are transfers who missed a class that’s offered once a semester.</p>
<p>re:liddlekiddle, My D is a URM and therefore received an $8000 scholarship for that. She also just received the Old Gold Scholarship yesterday $3000. But it is still short when compared to instate at Illinois.</p>