UMich [full ride] vs Vanderbilt for MechE

MYOS1634
Sat, 04 May 2024 11:10:01 +0000

If you dont want to work as a ME and want to add art your choice of major might not be the best. What’s your motivation? Or are you having cold feet?

UMichigan will offer you more Engineering and Engineering-related choices, especially if you want to move to Industrial Engineering - Vanderbilt has neither. Do they offer Design minors ?
If they take your AP credits you would have more elective credits for Art.

However you would find a different environment at Vanderbilt - a much smaller college of engineering, relatively smaller classes than at UMich. You can start as a ME major there and see what you would pivot to. However you would have less flexibility since they don’t take your AP credits.

You need to dig into the ME major at both - ABET doesn’t leave much space for flexibility so it’ll probably be quite similar at both, making it easy to find the differences and estimating if they make a difference.

Email Vanderbilt and tell them 3 days isn’t enough for such a decision and you need a few more days.