<p>@happymomof1 :
Thanks for that insight, i figured that they would be similar, but i didn’t know they were that closely related. And I’m more focused not on the difficulty of the class, i know i can handle that, but my fellow students and if i can shine where i go to get more opportunities.</p>
<p>@ucbalumnus :
I live in New Jersey, and my when I do the Cost Calculator thinggy on school sites I come back with 25-30K a year, and their eyes didn’t fall out of their head, so they can pay at least that. I was also looking at Rutgers New Brunswick and Newark. Actually, a lot of kids from my school in the past few years have gotten full rides to Rutgers with similar stats to me. As for MIT, I haven’t fallen in love with it yet(haven’t visited it yet), and from rumors I’ve heard is that if one person gets in at a school, it is much less likely for others at the school, and some of my good friends REALLY want to go to MIT, and have my stats (I have better EC’s tho), so i dont want to take the chance away from them unless i would really conciser going there. But if i do end up liking it, SCREW THEM :P</p>
<p>@sadilly :
That’s true, I have found a lot of reasons to go to Stevens, but i could be a little biased. Stevens is the only one i have visited so far, and i didn’t know about any of the opportunities there beforehand. So I can’t really say if Steven’s opportunities are really that outstanding compared to Cornell or other schools without visiting them first. Who knows, maybe what i thought at Stevens was actually the norm everywhere! (probably not, i think nearly 100% of their students did research, internships, and co-ops) And it’s a really good idea to call the local engineering firms, better go straight to the source and ask them what they want.</p>