<p>I am looking for some average schools that are good for civil engineering as my safe schools to apply to. Schools like Penn State that are good but not as hard to get accepted as the Ivy's. I prefer schools in the northeast. Virginia is pretty much as far south as I am willing to go.</p>
<p>Virginia Tech
lehigh
urochester
rpi</p>
<p>Northeastern.</p>
<p>Perhaps I’m a little biased being a native, but when I think VT and engineering the last word that comes to mind is average.</p>
<p>VT #15
RPI #27
Lehigh #42
Rochester #57
Northeastern #57 (tie)</p>
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<p>I think he was looking for top notch engineering schools that aren’t as hard to get into as say Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>What state are you in?</p>
<p>OOS publics can be very expensive. </p>
<p>Are you instate for Penn State? If not then will your parents pay the high price to go there.</p>
<p>Do you have a budget? Have your parents said that they’ll pay all costs no matter where you go?</p>
<p>If not, then you need to choose your safeties. All safeties have to be AFFORDABLE for you. If you’re not sure that you will have all costs covered thru ASSURED aid and FAMILY funds, then a school CANNOT be a safety.</p>
<p>However, if your parents will pay as much as any school costs, then you’ll have lots of options.</p>
<p>What are your test scores and GPA?</p>
<p>ok, so i feel kind of stupid for posting this because there are people on here with like 2300’s and I am no where close to that but here it goes…
sex: female
race: African-American (Nigerian to be exact)
SAT: 1980 Math-680 Writing-660 Reading-640
SAT II: havent taken yet…planning on math 2 and chemistry
ACT: planning on taking it
GPA: 3.917 out of 4.000…I don’t know if its weighted or unweighted my school doesn’t tell us all of that
class rank: top 5% (11 out of 500 or so)
AP: human geography-4
world history-4
calculus bc-3
physics b-2 (i know…bad physics teacher was horrible)</p>
<p>Since you’re a female URM, you might concentrate on PRIVATES that want more female URM engineers…like maybe RPI.</p>
<p>Don’t bother with OOS publics unless your family will pay full frieight.</p>
<p>Right now I am not concerned about money and how much the tuition is. I’m not filthy rich or anything but, I am more concerned about the quality of the school and the education. My stats are actually pretty good (you can see a part of it above). But, like I said I am looking for a safe school not like my 1st choice or anything like that because my 1st choice school is Cornell. But, thank you for the suggestions so far.</p>
<p>Bucknell, Lehigh, Stevens</p>
<p>You’re a very good candidate for VT. They love women in the e’school and you’re a URM as well. Your scores are not bad, but they are not top flight either. Last year the cut off for the e’school was 650 on Math. I would not consider it a safety by any means, but a strong match. </p>
<p>M2CK has already covered the caveat regarding OOS public schools. Your attitude to ignore budget at this stage when you’re looking for a safety school is negating half the aspect of a safety school. By definition a safety school is one you KNOW you will be accepted to, and you KNOW your family can afford the tuition (either full freight or with posted non-competitive scholarships such as bama offers). Lastly your safety needs to be somewhere you would be happy attending, really happy to go come August, if all else falls through, be it acceptances, financing, or a combination of the two. You may not have been on cc long enough to hear the mantra “Love thy safety”, but it’s canon for a reason.</p>
<p>Virginia Tech was around ~30-33k for OOS students find out if you can afford that because they don’t give many merit scholarships</p>
<p>Please tell us what your home state is.</p>
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Also, I’m not really interested, but I wouldn’t phrase this information this way again. A bright young lady such as yourself who has gone through math as high as Calc BC certainly can calculate their own GPA and know if this number represents a weighted number or not. You’re selling yourself short.</p>
<p>M2CK has already covered the caveat regarding OOS public schools. Your attitude to ignore budget at this stage when you’re looking for a safety school is negating half the aspect of a safety school. By definition a safety school is one you KNOW you will be accepted to, and you KNOW your family can afford the tuition (either full freight or with posted non-competitive scholarships such as bama offers). Lastly your safety needs to be somewhere you would be happy attending, really happy to go come August, if all else falls through, be it acceptances, financing, or a combination of the two. You may not have been on cc long enough to hear the mantra “Love thy safety”, but it’s canon for a reason.</p>
<p>Yes, for a school to be a safety then affordability has to be a consideration. </p>
<p>How can any school be on your list as a “safety” if you’re not sure that you have the costs covered?</p>
<p>Your concern about the “quality of the school” can’t really be relevant if you’re given a bill that won’t get paid.</p>
<p>Please ask your parents how much they’ll pay each year. Even famiies with good incomes sometimes can’t pay a LOT for college, so you need to know this answer.</p>
<p>Bucknell , Lehigh, Lafeyette, RPI. Bucknell is top ranked for undergrad (basically) only schools, ie. no PhD programs.</p>
<p>How about Smith?</p>
<p>B.U., WPI, Drexel, RIT. Good chances at serious merit awards at any of those as well since you are URM AND a female engineering student.
Smith - it depends on what type of engineering she is looking for. They have a generic engineering degree which pretty much assumes you are going to grad school.</p>
<p>^ That is not true that because the degree is general engineering, you need to go to grad school. For many jobs in industry, even if you have a degree in a specific discipline, say mechanical, they still need to train you on their particular methods, needs and approaches… the difference between a BS in Engineering and a BS in Mechanical Engineering is not as large as you think. Most employers are looking for people who are very smart and easily trainable.</p>
<p>I’m not concerned about a budget or anything because I know what my family can afford and I am just looking for suggestions that I would do further research on. Like I said it is the quality of the education that I’m concerned about right now.</p>
<p>I live in Georgia right now, but I am originally from New York which is why I want to go to school in the north. That’s also why I am not exactly focusing on the cost of tuition and everything because I know that I am definitely going to be out of state which is automatically going to bump that price up.</p>