<p>Can’t give you a lot of info, but I do know. </p>
<p>I worked with several WPI graduates and they were all good engineers, got a very good education from WPI. Job was in SoCal. It has a good reputation locally but a lot of people out of the northeast don’t know a lot about the school. You won’t find too many WPI grads out west, just works out that way. </p>
<p>My daughter was looking at colleges and I suggested she look at WPI. Well, she is a freshman there this year. She was concerned about being so far from home, but everyone is quite friendly there and she’s loving it. Classes are challenging enough that she worries some about upcoming tests and quizes, but is getting good grades. We went to parent’s weekend (which came up real quickly in the term) and all the other parent’s we talked to were impressed with the school. One parent’s son was a senior and they said he was quite excited about his out of field project (one project is in your major, the other must be in a different field) that he just completed. Was in London, England for a term. Note that the parents have to come up with the travel money while you usually have to pay the rent for your WPI living arangements.</p>
<p>Should have much more to say later in the school year. </p>
<p>D choose WPI since it is primarily focused on science and engineering, which is what she wanted. It is also a fairly small school (about 3400 students) that you don’t get lost in a numbers game. Older son goes to larger engineering school in CA. He is selecting/competing for slots for his required senior project with 150 seniors in the ME department. Although it is a good school he is going to, I now feel that he might have been better to have gone to WPI. He had a intro week to school and then it seemed like he was much more on his own to figure things out than daughter is right now. WPI has programs (Their Insight program gor one) to make the transition to college much easier.</p>