<p>I am an international student Who does not need financial aid. I am looking at an Undergrad degree in Mechanical Engineering … </p>
<p>1) This point Below is just for my inquisitiveness , But i will be happy if anyone can help me out with the below queries.</p>
<p>My queries :- </p>
<p>1)Is it necessary to have taken Biology as a subject for Pre-Med ? in grade 11 and 12 ? … Can someone explain the process of becoming a doctor or a lawyer in the United States Briefly ? .and what are the requirements for Pre-law and Pre-med courses ? and which are the popular Pre-Law and pre-med courses and which universities are best at it ? … (ranking) ? </p>
<p>2)I also wanted to know school for undergrad that are Harvey Mudd and Bucknell Like i.e.
More focus on undergrad , Sends students to top grad schools , great internships , Harvey has scripps college near by … The problem is my stats aren’t enough to consider both these colleges as matches … so something lower in tier 1 would be great.</p>
<p>3)I also wanted to know the rankings for LAC’s for undergrad Mechanical engineering — I tried to google it … but was unsuccessful.</p>
<p>From the sound of it, you aren’t too familiar with the U.S. education system at all, so I’ll start from scratch. Generally after you earn a bachelor’s degree (which generally takes four years to complete), you can apply to graduate programs such as law school or medical school. I honestly don’t know too much about law school programs, but I do know that law schools don’t generally have required undergraduate classes, so you could take economics, English, international relations, or other social sciences or humanities. As for medical schools, they generally require undergraduates to take biology, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, physics, and calculus before they can enter medical school. From what I understand, medical school students study for four years, do a residency for four years, and then follow up with additional study/practice depending on the field of medicine they pursue.</p>
<p>You probably need to be a little more specific in terms of what you are looking for in a college to get more help forming a list of match colleges. So far, you have mentioned “lower tier one school,” “strong undergrad emphasis,” “strong grad school placement,” and “strong engineering program.” Any more information you could give would help. What part of the country are you interested in? What are your standardized test scores? Etc.</p>
<p>I actually don’t know which part of the country i want to go to yet . But my main criteria is listed as :-</p>
<p>Very good Undergrad engineering focus
Some top notch internships
good facilities
good-Interactive-Helpful-Qualified professors
Good prestige
Well known degree</p>
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<li><p>No. Take courses required or recommended by medical institutions you are interested in. Substantial research experience is preferable. Apply. Law schools require only high grades and a high LSAT score. Apply. Each college has its own requirements: consult their catalogues. There is no such serious program of study as “pre-law.” Schools such as Amherst, the University of Chicago, and the University of California at Berkeley have majors and substantial courses in legal theory.</p></li>
<li><p>Schools not in “Tier 1,” loosely defined, do not place a significant amount of their students in top grad schools or internships.</p></li>
<li><p>Harvey Mudd, Swarthmore.</p></li>
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<p>I think I would recommend Rice University to you. The student body size is relatively small (5-6 thousand), with about 3-2 undergraduate/graduate student ratio. It’s located in Houston, a major city in Texas, so you’d have good internship opportunities. It’s also got a strong and popular engineering program, decent all-around academics, and pretty high quality of life. Check it out.</p>
<p>Edit – Someone also mentioned Swarthmore College, which would also be one to check out, but I would look at Rice University first.</p>
<p>I will look in to both all of the mentioned LAC’s . can you people give me a ranking for undergrad mechanical engineering offered by LAC’s or colleges that match me . Because all of the mentioned require high profile students which i think i am not … </p>
<p>i want a few matched and 2 safeties . </p>
<p>My reaches are - HMC , Rice , Bucknell and Reeds college so far … i am checking out swarthmore</p>
<p>I don’t think that Rice is a super-reach school for you. It’s more like a high match/low reach. Your SAT critical reading score is at the 50% and your math score is probably about 40-45% or so. Then again, I don’t know whether Rice admits international students based on higher standards or not.</p>
<p>Uhmm, just for future usage: Rice is a university, not a LAC. Engineering degrees aren’t offered by LACs (exept when HMC calls themselves a liberal arts college, even when it’s not). Therefore, I don’t really think you’re looking at a liberal arts college. You come close to matching stats with Duke. There’s Notre Dame. If you wanted to go a bit off the beaten path, there’s Case Western Reserve (you can do all your pre-med or pre-law stuff here, but they’re more geared towards engineering).</p>
<p>US News and World Report ranks national universities and liberal arts colleges every year, and their 2010 rankings are coming out within a week, I believe. They also rank engineering programs. If you don’t have access to the magazine (libraries usually have it) here is a link to their website that ranks engineering programs: [Best</a> Undergraduate Engineering Programs - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/spec-doct-engineering]Best”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/spec-doct-engineering). It says that you need premium access for the full list, so you could probably subscribe online for one month and then cancel to get the info that you want. Your SAT scores are 1400 out of 1600 (colleges only consider math and critical reading) which are good scores. If internships are important, you could give some consideration to universities that have co-op programs. They take five years instead of four, but they include internships and I think that you only pay for four years of tuition. Case Western in the Midwest has a co-op program for engineering. On the East Coast, Northeastern University has co-op.</p>
<p>I have looked in to uMichigan - Ann Arbor . Even though it may not fit all my requirements . It is a great university which i ranked above Berkley for my major and has a good reputation . </p>
<p>My list is as follows : - </p>
<p>Super Reaches -
1)Cornell / CMU / Duke - Cant decide between them , Which 1 is easier to get into ?
2)Rice / HMC - Cant decide between them , Which 1 is easier to get into ? </p>
<p>Reach-
3)UMichigan
4)Georgia Tech
5)Penn State UP</p>
<p>Matches -
6)UIUC
7)Case western
8)RPI / WPI / Texas A&M- I cant decide between them for Undergrad Mech Eng</p>
… The problem is my stats aren’t enough to consider both these colleges as matches … so something lower in tier 1 would be great.</p>