Entry between CMU and Notre Dame

reformedman
Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:20:50 +0000

My son is settled with going to the honors college at NJIT without regret but he, like me, would like to see if he had a chance to a more prestigious and well known university. If he were accepted to both, which do you think he should attend. I know that with his stats, it is doubtful he would get into either but let’s just say he got into both for the sake of daydreaming.

His stats are:
Math SAT=760
SATMath2=710
SATPhys=670
GPA=3.89

Just to recap, the question isn’t whether he can get in, it’s which one should he go to if he did get into both.
The concerns are the stress levels of the 4 years for each with regard to rigor.
The other concern is the strength of the Computer Engineering degree in the marketplace.
If both are equally rigorous then I’d think that the CMU degree would go further.
The reason I ask is that we’d like to gamble the $80 application fee on one of these but we don’t want to necessarily attend the one which would be more stressful than he can handle and then not be able to even graduate because of the rigor level.