ranking undergraduate engineering schools

mercymom
Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:06:52 +0000

hiker -

i was looking at some other engrg thread and one of the posters seemed to think that gpa meant more than rank or name of school for getting a job. like this guy’s brother had stinky grades from Cornell and the poster had great grades from a far “lesser” place. the one with good grades had a much easier time getting a job. maybe some of these guys here could opine on that.

so if the happiness issue could affect gpa, then that might be more significant factor than it appears on the surface. or just if the kid thinks he’ll do better at one place or the other.

it also appears Berkeley is the bomb for engrg, so maybe he needs to look at it closely. my relatives tell me a guy from Berkeley, Robert Bea, is the head of the independent team assessing the collapse of the levees in New Orleans. that’s kind of cool.