My son also wants to major in ME and is interested in joining a SAE team, so this thread has been really helpful!
We live in Colorado, so he’s applied to CU Boulder, Colorado State, and Mines. His top three schools (Purdue, UIUC, and UDub) are going to be tough to get into for him…especially their engineering programs as an OOS applicant.
Oregon State wasn’t high on his list, but after receiving the WUE, we may want to schedule a campus visit. And Colorado State isn’t totally written off after sending an invitation to apply for a significant engineering scholarship. I had thought that getting the early admissions would help settle the nerves, but instead they’re already making the decision process more complex!
Hello, I’m not sure how we got a WUE decision so quickly. Honestly, no idea. Admissions seems like the process to pick a Pope. Very secretive and unique to the college!
Thanks for the tips. We have applied to SLO and Pomona. Based on gpa alone it will be a minor miracle I think.
Great points. Both TAMU and UW are stretches for us. Let’s see. As a poster above said, applying early was great, but it’s not going to make the decision process easy!
Many of the schools offering WUE discounts are less selective, so they may decide immediately for applicants who meet their automatic-admit stats thresholds (effectively rolling for those who do meet the thresholds).
At last count, our total was 36 colleges lol (9 UC’s, I think 11 CSU’s, plus the 16 or so common app colleges). Crazy, I know, but not sure if we would do it any differently.
One benefit of applying is it ‘forces’ us to get to know the college a bit better. There really are so many good colleges, it’s overwhelming.
Thanks! I think we are done with applications lol. Last one (UC) to go. It’s been a month of applications and I personally don’t want to see another one
You’ve got some great options in hand, so I definitely understand! Would love it if you continue to keep us updated on your son’s thought process and final decision. Wishing him the best!
Depends from where. There are ample non stops. It shouldn’t take a full day but there’s likely not many west coasters there - more a regional / local school.
It’s a great city but like most, you’ll end up where the jobs are. It could be there if you are in motor sports, it could be an OEM where they are if you work for them or where the plants are.
Yes, CLT is a major hub for American Airlines, so there are many direct flights to the west coast – about 5 hrs in the air. But of course with the time zones that means a flight that leaves CLT at 3:10 gets to LA at 5:30. The other way makes for a longer looking flight, but still about 5 hrs in the air.
I think UNC-Charlotte is about 85% kids from North Carolina. There is a cap on out of state enrollment at all UNC system schools and the max percentage of OOS students is 18%.
Charlotte has a reputation of being all about banking (major financial center), NASCAR, and churches (home of the Billy Graham Library), but there is a lot more than that going on. North Carolina is home to some of the fastest growing areas in the country — Charlotte and Raleigh in particular. Tons of Californians and New Yorkers and New Jersey folks are moving here allllllll the time.
Thanks for the reply. Can I ask when your son applied to Oregon State and when he the admission response and if the WUE came shortly after that?
I’m an EE and I’ve noticed that nowadays a lot of students are focused on internships and coop through the university. This was definitely not the case 25 years ago for me! I think I knew of only a few people who got internships and they were all in the senior year! Now, I hear lots doing it during sophomore or even freshman year! I’m still processing how to look into that when my son makes his decision.
5 hours in the air plus 2 hours arriving at the airport before flight time plus time for ground transportation means 8+ hours. If going eastbound, 3 hours disappear in time zones, so it may seem like 11+ hours later (but westbound may seem like only 5+ hours).
Florida Tech is a private school so tuition is the same for all, except that there are scholarships Florida residents can use to bring down the cost, and they can use Bright Futures (a state scholarship for high school seniors) for tuition.
There should be a table on the website of what the merit scholarship would be (based on test scores and gpa, and sometimes class rank Years ago, there were also some automatic scholarships for things like being an eagle scout or girl scout gold, being in robots, some other stem things that were on the website.
