<p>Frasi mentions some good points. The general impression of the engineering program is that they overload you with work. I definitely think that is true from the engineering students I knew.</p>
<p>Frasi, I will contend one point that you mentioned, that the physics courses aren’t rigorous. Well that’s because those are general intro physics courses, and not intro physics for physics majors. Take PHY 141 - honors physics I or take MAT 141 - Honors Calculus I, there you will be using the same texts that they use at MIT for introduction to calculus/analysis. One of the honors calculus courses was taught by Michael Anderson, a world famous mathematician who almost solved the Poincare Conjecture, a century old mathematics problem with a million dollar prize for the first person with a correct solution. Oh and he’s a notoriously tough professor. Stony Brook does a good job offering physics/math prereqs for non physics and math students. But if you want the rigor, they will heap it at you.</p>
<p>I took a level 400 math seminar where we used the same textbook that the similar math GRAD course was using. The level of rigor is there, you just need to seek it out.</p>