Suggestion for Engineering university/college with this Stats

retiredfarmer
Wed, 31 May 2017 22:28:48 +0000

It is easy to get wrapped up with numbers. They can be fun to play with, one can work out rankings, probabilities and play the alpha-numeric soup.

College is a personal growth. At its best, college is a process of self discovery. Whatever your standardized tests scores and grades may be relative to some applicant pool average, your work does not indicate a lack of raw horsepower. You are not defined by these test scores. They are just easier to talk about than the more complex taste of the entire soup. What do you really hope to discover or accomplish while in college?

Admission is not your end goal, but one step in a developing process. This is why it helps for you to think about the process that happens after you matriculate to a school.

These are just a few questions:
Would you like to work with a team or prefer to work alone?
What activities rejuvenate your spirits?
Will your peers want to work with you?
Do you see education as a collection of courses to be passed or as a trip to the store to select relevant tools?
Do you see learning as a continuous process that does not end after college?
Do you want a faceless committee to tell you what to do or do you want to know why?

I am an old WPI Alumnus who worked ten years in the admissions office as the school was going through a learning revolution. As a graduate of the older traditional course/lecture/laboratory system, I was totally taken by the fresh approach being developed at that time. Hopefully, they will continue to grow and to improve the educational process in yet more inventive directions.

If curious (curiosity is the root of all truth) check this out at https://www.wpi.edu/wpi-plan. Olin and Harvey Mudd have two more very interesting approaches to the science/engineering world that are well grounded in interdisciplinary approaches to learning.