He would be taking more courses in less time? Sorry, but that needs to be rethought. Quarters are about 10 weeks long each. The time zips by. Overloading on courses is not often a good idea…and especially for engineering majors who have a pretty full and tough course load to begin with.
And he might not be taking “more” classes…they will just be in three parts instead of two. For example…students take a full year of calculus, biology, chemistry, etc…but instead of being two semesters, they are three quarters. So a full year course is still going to take a full academic year to complete.
My kid did well in higher level math courses…but even so…she said squeezing a semester worth if differential equations into 10 weeks was not easy peasy.
DD was an engineering major at Santa Clara which is on quarters. I suggested that school…because it is close to Stanford, but less competitive. SCU has a fine college of engineering, and that SV location.