<p>I live in NY and I have a 3.3 uw gpa and 3.8 w gpa with a 1790 sat (690m 590w510cr).... Knowing this what schools in the northeast would be a good fit for me if I'm looking to pursue mechanical engineering... So far I've applied to Stony Brook Vermont Delaware Binghamton Lafayette Boston University and Northeastern</p>
<p>RIT and WPI are worthy schools for engineering I believe. Might be worth researching them a little bit.</p>
<p>With your stats, perhaps Wilkes University?</p>
<p>Okay I will look into those, thank you!</p>
<p>UMaine Orono would probably be a safety</p>
<p>How much can your family afford? The out of state publics will likely not give you any aid.</p>
<p>Clarkson University (free to apply I think)
Drexel University (free to apply)
Manhattan College
NJIT/NYIT/NYU Poly
Penn State University Park
SUNY Buffalo
Stevens Institute of Technology
Temple University</p>
<p>There’s more than that, that’s just some ideas.</p>
<p>Try using the college search tool here on CC with all of your data. [College</a> Search - College Confidential](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search/]College”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search/)
Be sure to expand the number of results at the top (20 by default) and be sure to select “must have” for any important criteria, otherwise it may come up with some odd matches.
What’s good about this site is that it compares your GPA and test scores against the reported ones for the schools and tries to guess the “fit”. It represents the fit as percentage and when you click on the “why?” underneath the fit number it shows you how you compare.</p>
<p>I’ve looked into a lot of those schools, if you had to choose which one would you pick? Idk how I feel about going to a big school like penn state even though their engineering is supposed to be good.</p>
<p>Okay i will try it, thank you!</p>
<p>Okay I’ll look into it, thanks! And we can’t afford much haha that’s why I applied to stony brook and bing.</p>
<p>Agree with many suggestions above…can add Union College and if money is an issue I’d add SUNY Buffalo to the list of state schools you apply to.</p>
<p>Binghamton does not have a great engineering dept, Buffalo does. Apply there.</p>
<p>Looks like you need more financial safeties then just the SUNYs as well and some general safety schools.</p>
<p>I visited buffalo, I didn’t like it very much and I couldn’t see myself going there… Also I’ve had some problems with union college haha but thank you.</p>
<p>CCNY should be a financial and academic safety :). Better engineering than binghamton. I’m on the same boat as you except your stats are higher than mine by a few points lol.</p>
<p>Yeah I think I’m going to look into CCNY more. Is it a good school for engineering? And hahah this is actually awful I was committed somewhere for baseball but didnt get in so I hve to find all new schools, culinary school is becoming a viable option hahahahah</p>
<p>Yeah it is. Its has the best engineering out of the other CUNY schools. Its cheap and is ABET accredited so it’s good.</p>
<p>Alright cool ill definitely look into it more, thanks a lot I appreciate it.</p>
<p>If I plan on going to grad school for engineering, does the prestige of my undergraduate education really matter in the long run? I’m asking this because I am restricted financially so I will most likely need to attend a state school, but I don’t want it to screw me in the long run.</p>
<p>It does not matter in most cases. You will be fine with the state schools (including CCNY). The more important criteria for graduate school applications in Engineering is your academic performance (GPA), relevant research experience, and industry internship experience. School prestige does not count much in Engineering and Computer Science unless you came from a very top school, whether you plan to work in the industry or go straight to graduate schools.</p>