<p>my cousin has wanted to be an engineer all his life and he’s going to going to be a senior this year. I’m helping put together a college list and so far we have the university of florida and MIT. he wants to stay on the east coast and would like a good music program but not a requirement for him.
here is a brief of his stats
african american male from rural florida
sat Is: 1860 (don’t know the breakdown but i know 700+ in math)
sat IIS: mathIIc 720 chemistry 700
ranked in the top 5 and has a 4.0</p>
<p>Can you help us out with some safeties, matches and reaches please?</p>
<p>Virginia Tech is a school to look at (my goodness I’m recommending it a lot today.) Great engineering, good (I’m pretty sure at least) music program, near the East Coast. Someone else can tell you exactally but I’d say its either a safety or a match for him.</p>
<p>I’d recommend Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering if his scores were higher, but it’s very difficult to get into. The reason? It doesn’t cost anything to attend.</p>
<p>He might be a good candidate for nice merit money at University of Florida, which could be considered a low match.</p>
<p>This will be yet another post where I’ll recommend that he look in to the ACT, since it has a math section and a science section. That way, his Math and Science scores will balance out his English and Reading scores.</p>
<p>If your cousin is not dead-set on the east coast, he might consider a school like Vanderbilt Univ, which has both an engineering school and the Blair School of Music. The engineering faculty encourage students to pursue interests outside of engineering, including music, and VU is interested in attracting a more diverse student body.</p>
<p>midmo, You don’t consider Vandy to be east coast? Sure, TN doesn’t touch the water, so, technically, its not on the COAST, but I wouldn’t consider it midwest. What region would you call it?</p>
<p>I agree with that suggestion, wherever it is. Also: Rochester Institute of Technology and Uni of Rochester, Bucknell, Carnegie Mellon, Lehigh, Uni of Miami (in Miami), and Stevens Institute of Tech all have engineering as a pretty popular major. I don’t know about the music aspect, sorry.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what you define as east coast. East of the Mississippi? If you do, then Auburn is also a good safety. You already have your reach (MIT), and match (UF).</p>
<p>I’d also recommend Maryland, it has an excellent engineering program. IMO Georgia Tech is the best choice, if he doesn’t really want to stay in state. </p>
<p>Other schools: NC State, Virginia Tech, CMU, Duke, Clemson (safety).</p>
<p>If he wants another safety in Florida, look into UCF. It’s the second best engineering school in the state after UF.</p>
<p>Definitely Rose-Hulman. If he’s sure about engineering not a whole lot of better choices, plus there’s no music majors here, so if he wants to do that, he can, the school has all the different musical groups you would expect to find, jazz band, pep band, string ensemble, a pit orchestra, an orchestra, yeah. But remember that all the students are engineering/math/science, so he’s not at a disadvantage because of his major, versus at a bigger school where they have music majors for whom music is their life, they practice for hours a day, etc…everyone here takes the tough classes, so it’s a level playing field for doing music, sports, or any extracurriculars really.</p>
<p>Don’t know if your name is just something you made up or you have some military connection, but ROTC is a great option at Rose also, if it’s something that interests him. I’m doing Army ROTC here, getting a completely free education ($160,000), plus book money and $3000 in spending money this past year, to go up this year.</p>
<p>Plus, best part is the app is free and there’s no essay, so really very few reasons not to apply if he’s serious about math/science/engineering.</p>
<p>Depending on how serious your cousin is about music, the University of Rochester has very good engineering and one of the best music schools in the country (Eastman). I’m not sure how much a non-Eastman student can participate in Eastman programs, though; you’d need to check or you could be disappointed…</p>