Any advice on picking colleges?

Question

Here's a list of colleges that have emailed/mailed me (all end with university or college): Austin, Baylor, Birmingham-Southern, Boston, Brown, Case Western Reserve, Centenary, Christian Bros., CO School of Mines, Colgate, Columbia, Fordham, Illinois Wesleyan, Kettering, New York, Rhodes, Rice, Southern Methodist, Texas Christian, Chicago, Trinity, Tulane, Missouri-Rolla, Miami, Rochester, Washington and Lee, and (finally) Washington in St. Louis. I'm a sophmore, from Louisiana, and I have an interest in engineering (either mechanical, automotive, or test). Anyone have any advice with a major in engineering?

Advice from people who CURRENTLY major in engineering would be a huge help.

Answer 1

One thing you will definitely want to consider is how set you really are on engineering. Some schools, especially technical schools may be the best for your interest in engineering, but if you try it and decide against it, there aren't many other strong programs at the school. If you are set on it, obviously you will want to enter the top programs, top engineering schools like MIT or CalTech, which are very selective.

It's up to you how focused or broad you want your academic experience to be.

As far as doing a college search, collegeboard.com has a search feature in which you enter criteria such as cost, distance, program of choice, extracurriculars, etc. and it will give you good matches for what you want.

Answer 2

I don't know much about engineering but you need to really research hard on each of the colleges and universities you are thinking of. You pretty much have a mix of everything, you have some Ivy League (I hope you realize that), State Universities, Private Colleges, as well as christian colleges. Since the way you wrote them you look like your looking more at where you would want to go to school then the actual academics. There is such a big difference between going to an Ivy League and just a private Christian college.

Answer 3

A few schools have good engineering schools. Schools like M.I.T. are great and, if you want to go Ivy League, I know Princeton has an engineering school, though I don't know how good it is. Find a book or a site that compares colleges in different fields. Also, try to figure out what type of engineer you want to be. It may help narrow things down.

Answer 4

You need to get one of those big fat books that compares statistics on all colleges. Then you need to decide whether you want a small school or a university and whether you want to live in a city or a small town for four years. Then you need to make sure that the colleges you are interested in have the engineering programs you want. And you probably want to go to the most selective school that you can get into or afford. So you need to do some research. Don't just read the brochures they send you.

Answer 5

Colorado School of Mines is the most presigious for engineering majors out of your list.

Baylor, Rice, TCU, Trinity and SMU are relatively unkown outside of Texas - but have excellent name recognition if you want to work in Texas (or stay - I bet your from Texas or nearby).

Columbia, Boston, Tulane are recoginzed names nationally.

Answer 6

UCF and MIT are really good engineering schools. I suggest that you go to collegeboard.com and do a college search. You can do a really detailed search for an engineering school. I'm looking for colleges too and it's really helpful!!! Hope this helps!

Answer 7

M.I.T anc C.I.T. are great schools for engineering but are extremly hard to get into so I would consider colleges around Louisana and look for colleges that fit your interst, like school size, and location.. etc.

Hope this helps

Answer 8

think about what you want to do for a career, then find the college that can help you with that the best. and seeing all of these colleges that want you, you are most likely smart, so u will probably make the right choice

Answer 9

if ur maja b endgonearing, i would strongly reckomment Missassippy School of Collages

Answer 10

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