<p>Well the title must be self explanatory for you (smart ) people. I want to have a n opinion on if there is any chance for a student studying engineering at a small liberal arts colleges like(trinity coll ct,lafayette coll, swarthmore coll) to get into engineering heavyweights (like MIT,STANFORD) for graduate study with financial aid???(insane !! i know)</p>
<p>If there is what can be done to maximize the chance??</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>
<p>I don’t see why not. </p>
<p>Graduate Study for a PhD in engineering is usually funded by teaching and research. MIT only accepts students into a PhD program. Also, you don’t need to go to MIT or Stanford to have a great career in engineering. </p>
<p>Why don’t you get the MIT and Stanford catalogs and try to be as well prepared as the minimum requirements of their own graduates in terms of your course selection options, especially in math. </p>
<p>Swarthmore students can cross register with Penn for any courses that are missing. I don’t know about the others. Lafayette is not that far from Lehigh but I don’t know if they have any cross registration.</p>
<p>“Graduate Study for a PhD in engineering”</p>
<p>What about Masters??</p>
<p>Math requirements? I heard its easy to do double major in Math for Engineers . Will it help? What counts most Good GPA or sth else?</p>
<p>Are you asking about an Engineering BA, which LAfayette has, or BS which Lafayette also has ? Many engineers from Lafayette have gotten into PhD programs at top schools with full funding. My daughter has been accepted into the PhD program In Civil at Illinois. She’s waiting on several other top programs. In my view Lafayette offers great opportunity in these areas as I’m sure Bucknell, W&L and the other Liberal Arts Engineering schools do.</p>
<p>You can do a 3+2 program if you want more liberal arts education and still have a BS in engineering.</p>
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<p>Uh, no, that’s not true across the board. It depends on which department you’re talking about. Some will only accept students into a PhD program. But others will accept students for master’s.</p>
<p>I am talking about ECE BS…</p>
<p>LACs with engineering programs are uncommon, but those that do exist typically do very well at grad school placement. In general, LAC engineering students have a strong grasp of the fundamentals, and they often have experience working closely with faculty. These are things that grad schools like to see. </p>
<p>LAC engineering students typically have less exposure to specialized or cutting-edge research than their counterparts at research universities. However, grad schools usually aren’t too concerned about this deficiency, because the grad school process is expected to correct it.</p>
<p>According to [Swarthmore](<a href=“http://www.engin.swarthmore.edu/Engineering_at_Swat.pdf]Swarthmore[/url]:”>http://www.engin.swarthmore.edu/Engineering_at_Swat.pdf):</a>
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<p>At[Smith](<a href=“http://www.science.smith.edu/Engin/admission.php”>A Five Building Complex (Plus Portions of the Gyms) - Clark Science Center), grad school admission can be automatic:
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<p>Corbett that’s interesting because JHU students don’t get that option…</p>
<p>Although “unwritten” an undergrad with 3.5 gpa will surely get into the grad school of JHU, won’t he?</p>
<p>Look at Harvey Mudd College (a tech-minded LAC in the Claremont Consortium…think MIT meets LAC, to describe it in a nutshell) and, if you’re female, Smith. If you’re open to a pretty religious environment, Calvin College is another option. Off the top of my head, these are the only LAC’s that come to mind as having 4 year engineering programs, though there are definitely others. </p>
<p>A CC search should yield some results…you’re not the first to wonder about this :)</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd, Olin, Smith…</p>
<p>Bucknell University</p>
<p>“Although “unwritten” an undergrad with 3.5 gpa will surely get into the grad school of JHU, won’t he?”</p>
<p>Not necessarily. GPA is really important, but there are other factors that may keep out someone with a high GPA.</p>
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<p>Such as?</p>
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<p>If you have no research experience, you probably won’t get into a strong PhD program. If you have bad or mediocre recs, your chance of getting in goes way down. If you tank the GRE, that might keep you out of some programs.</p>
<p>Union College.
See: [Union</a> Symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education](<a href=“http://www.union.edu/integration]Union”>http://www.union.edu/integration)</p>
<p>Off Topic:
Using title case and exclamation marks got you a lot of views.</p>