<p>My son is a NMSF and of course got the full ride offer to Arizona State University. At first we dismissed it since it was a party school and we did not think the academics were very good. Since then we have noticed the Engineering school there keeps showing up in multiple rankings as a top 40 to top 80 school. I don't really care much for rankings but when an unexpected school showed up that was also offering a full ride it was decided that maybe we should at least check it out.</p>
<p>My question is ASU that solid in Engineering? I think we will go visit in February, catch a round of golf, and check it out along with AU. He is looking at Computer/electrical engineering with perhaps a business minor. (Major subject to change of course)</p>
<p>Here in AZ people generally regard ASU as a better engineering school than Arizona. ASU also has one of the best honors colleges in the country.</p>
Exactly. I really regret giving in to all the hype about prestige in undergrad and ended up with a big pile of debt, instead of taking a full ride at a somewhat decent college. It just wasn't worth it. I'd say go for it, ASU is a good school.</p>
<p>if he put USC as his first choice, then he gets a half ride for being NMF. USC has a very good engineering program, and to be honest, i think it's just a better school. i'm close with a family friend who attended asu as a double premed/music (concert piano) major and he really wishes he had gone to USC. he received a full ride plus a stipend, but he also got a good scholarship for USC. he kept his premed double until his senior year, then dropped it, because the science program wasn't that great--comparatively easy to his previous school, ohio state. don't know if this translates very well to engineering, but my point was mostly that he wished he had gone to usc instead of ASU, and your son has the opportunity to get a half ride at USC.</p>
<p>if it was comparatively easy why'd he drop it? that doesn't make much sense, especially considering that if it was so easy that his grades would be high and he'd have a decent shot at med school</p>
<p>my dad is an EE professor at ASU. it seems like a decent department. there seems to be motivated students, and very lazy students at ASU...you'll encounter that in most public schools</p>
<p>I agree with what Mr Payne said...in my opinion you should take a full ride wherever unless you have nearly a full ride at a better school or you have gobs of money.</p>
<p>Sashimi46 - Here on the east coast it's the other way around. the private college students are so fascinated by the fact that they are living in NYC that that seems to be all they care about. The Public colleges here (CUNY) have some really good programs and since grades are not at all inflated as they are at their super expensive private counterparts. I guess that somehow results in the students working harder to achieve the same GPA.
Plus, most of the public colleges in NYC are pretty much 60% and up minorities. and these kids work their butts off to graduate with a good GPA to get better jobs, and improve overall quality of life.
Don't know how it works further west. just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>ASU is a great school for engineering,especially for graduate students and research.</p>
<p>Since you got free ride,ASU will probably be no brainer.</p>
<p>The only problem about ASU may be its undergraduate faculty resource.I've heard the class there is a little bit too large and some professors are not that accessible.</p>