<p>Anyone who plans to apply to an Ivy League School's Engineering program please comment on which program at which university they are applying to.</p>
<p>I am planning to apply at Comumbia and Harvard for BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, next year....................................Does Harvard accept transfer students in Spring semester????</p>
<p>Applying to Columbia FU, But I will only go there if I don't get into Cooper Union. The fact is, that becausethe ivy engineering schools don't give merit aid they just don't get the cream of the top. They know it,andso doeseveryone else.</p>
<p>I'm applying to Penn SEAS Early Decision. Only 4 days till decisions are posted online... OMG!</p>
<p>Most Ivies are not that good in Engineering. Cornell and Princeton are obviously excellent, but that's it. The remaining Ivies are good but not great in Engineering. You would be better of going to a school like Johns Hopkins, Northwestern or Rice. The only exception is Penn for Biomedical Engineering.</p>
<p>Larry Summers wants to double the size of Harvard's Engineering School, possibly leveraging off Harvard's strength in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. What's your assessment of this effort?</p>
<p>Harvard certainly has the resources to make it happen...and fast. But in the academic world, "fast" means 10-15 years before real results become evident.</p>
<p>Thanks. Makes sense to me.</p>
<p>Cornell...the only Ivy I applied to and did so ED. Will find out if I'm going on Thursday.</p>
<p>I also applied to Cornell ED for ECE. And also the only Ivy I applied to.</p>
<p>Cornell ED - mech and aero engineering</p>
<p>Cornell is an excellent choice good luck!!</p>
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<p>Oh, I don't know about that. MIT and Stanford don't give out merit aid either, but that doesn't seem to stop them from getting some pretty decent engineering students.</p>
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<p>Yeah, true, they're better, but I don't know if it's really that big of a difference. According to USNews undergrad engineering ranking, NW is 14, JHU is 15, and Rice is 20. Contrast that with Columbia 27, Harvard 31, Penn 37, Yale 44, Dartmouth 44. So it's not THAT big. </p>
<p>And besides, I would caution people that the NSF has found that less than half of all students who intend to complete an engineering degree will actually do so, with most of those who leave having switching to some other major. So you gotta think about what you're going to do if you end up no longer wanting engineering.</p>
<p>Actually, Penn is ranked 27, not 37. Plus, the USNWR rankings is really misleading because its based on faculty repuation, which is not always relevant to undergrad. For example, an engineer at Yale will have much more faculty contact than one from a top engineering state school.</p>
<p>Columbia SEAS, Biomedical Engineering. I was thinking of going to Penn instead, but the Columbia campus seemed like a better match.</p>