<p>Guys Guys… I see it’s getting a little bit violent here. BC, BU, WPI, HC-all are great schools and since it’s getting very violent here, I hereby declare to close the discussion here. I don’t mean to be bossy, but since I am the OP and this topic is getting violent (somewhat) I don’t think I want to continue any further discussion on this topic. And I believe that BU and WPI academically the same. (I may be wrong in some people’s eyes, but that’s what i think. </p>
<p>But thank you everyone for your opinions (or in some cases off topic arguments) and I have decided to go to BC since I am getting a better deal there. I think I will just transfer if I fix my mind on becoming an engineer.</p>
<p>So,DHman, are you saying WPI has stupid students because they offered <em>you</em> admission and you don’t have a 2200 SAT? Kind of like the saying “who would want to belong to a club that would accept me as a member” ? </p>
<p>I bet most of the students who applied to WPI also applied to other schools from which they were rejected. </p>
<p>And I think this is a case of “familiarity breeds contempt”
Many schools are not thought of highly by students in their own neck of the woods. For instance Evergreen in the Seattle area is often looked down the nose at by locals, yet is a highly regarded institution elsewhere - and is mentioned glowingly in Colleges that Change Lives. Yet most students from around there would rather go to UW or WWU or WSU than Evergreen - but Evergreen offers a different way to get an education that is extremely valuable to some students (a fair number actually judging by the size of the student body)</p>
<p>So in DHman’s circle, WPI is not a good school (a disgrace), yet many student who attend (and their parents) disagree. DHman, yours is an opinion based on a “feel” you got that you back up with rankings that many feel are not relevant to attaining a good education. You were correct not to go there, it was not the school for you, but you tar it with a broad brush and you have no real basis to do that. This is the trouble with knowing a little bit about something. DH you simply do not have enough knowledge of the school to make the proclamations you do. Sure you can say what your experiences are and your cousin’s experiences - but to state that the students and professors there are “■■■■■■■”??? Come on now. So far several students have replied to you with no obvious misspellings and yet I have noted many misspelled words and the use of incorrect words and grammar in your posts, yet no one has cast aspersions on <em>your</em> intelligence. At this point, I am afraid, no one will really be taking you seriously. Not when you make comments like that.</p>
<h1>theorymom-- I am calling WPIstudents ■■■■■■ not cuz I don’t have a 2200 on my SAT because I know students who got into WPI with 1400, 1500 and even 1600 SATs. Not only a few, more like a dozen of them. Those students who get a C in regular pre-calc, doesn’t deserve to go to an engineering schools and the other schools they applied to, you got BIG FAT REJECTIONS like <em>your</em> son did. FYI, I didn’t got rejected from any schools I applied to. I applied to NEU, BU, BC, HC, WPI, UMA and got accepted into all of those schools.</h1>
<p>About the grammar/spelling mistakes-- FYI I am typing from a blackberry, not from a laptop. If I decide to check my spelling and everything, it’s gonna take me half an hour to type it correctly. And I have to agree it’s hard to “cast aspersions on a student’s intelligence” who got accepted to so many good schools on that list above. </p>
<p>When I set my foot in WPI’s campus and saw all those “nerdy ppl who play dungeons and dragons/don’t shower” I figured out that WPI is not for me. I would rather go to BU/NEU than rotting in that hell.</p>
<p>@DHman or whatever
^ Look at the SAT scores. While BU and WPI students rank almost the same in math, BU students score a lot better in Critical reading and Writing. So, I don’t understand how you say that WPI is the same BU. I would say almost the same, but not same. That SAT deference of about 30-40 points shows that students at BU are better than the students at WPI. Besides look at BU and WPI acceptance rate. BU for a large school has an acceptance rate of 57% while WPI despite being a huge school has an acceptance rate of 63%.</p>
<p>As for “have as much prestige as say MIT (in tech school circles)”, WPI ranks #51 among engineering schools. I don’t know how could you compare WPI with MIT??? Maybe it was true about 10 years ago when they had English speaking teachers and smarter people there, but now because of all the Chinese/Indian teachers who can’t speak English very well, there education standard went down. Even RPI scores better than WPI when they are almost the same school and deal with same type of education. Here is a list of top engineering schools in the country.</p>
<p>Are u attending WPI? How do u know that WPI is not good? How can u judge school by SAT scores, when WPI announced that from this year SAT scores are not required to be submitted. I ll tell u about my case… As an international student I took SAT 2, physics and math 2, cause I applied to MIT too, so I needed SAT 2. Well, in my country I achieved a lot, especially in physics. I was the second best student in physics out of 5 million ppl. I did Physics 2, and I got 700 . It’s terrible score for me, but the test was ridiculous. 50 questions or so, in 60 minutes. That nothing. Whole my life I was trying to solve difficult problems that take you so much time, but then u go to some test called SAT 2, and u get millions questions in 60 minutes. For me that’s silly.
I met so many ppl that are extremely intelligent, but their SAT scores suck.
I mean, making an opinion based on SAT scores is as ■■■■■■■■ as citing wikipedia.
That is just one of the reasons why i am telling u that your posts are, let’s say, inappropriate. I analyzed most of American universities for two years. This year i got a license from my high school to open academic advising office, where i am gonna advise ppl where to apply, so trust me i know enough to tell you that there are far better ways to find out how good some university is. For me choosing a college is extremely important decision, so that’s why i wanted to analyze all choices.</p>
<p>"I am calling WPIstudents ■■■■■■ not cuz I don’t have a 2200 on my SAT because I know students who got into WPI with 1400, 1500 and even 1600 SATs. Not only a few, more like a dozen of them. Those students who get a C in regular pre-calc, doesn’t deserve to go to an engineering schools and the other schools they applied to, you got BIG FAT REJECTIONS like <em>your</em> son did. FYI, I didn’t got rejected from any schools I applied to. I applied to NEU, BU, BC, HC, WPI, UMA and got accepted into all of those schools.</p>
<p>About the grammar/spelling mistakes-- FYI I am typing from a blackberry, not from a laptop. If I decide to check my spelling and everything, it’s gonna take me half an hour to type it correctly. And I have to agree it’s hard to “cast aspersions on a student’s intelligence” who got accepted to so many good schools on that list above.</p>
<p>When I set my foot in WPI’s campus and saw all those “nerdy ppl who play dungeons and dragons/don’t shower” I figured out that WPI is not for me. I would rather go to BU/NEU than rotting in that hell."</p>
<p>If many ppl on your university are dumb, that dont mean that university is bad. Professors are those that make university good and how much do they care about you as a student who came there to learn something.
I just dont know why do i bother with you, but at least i am trying to reduce someone’s ignorance.</p>
<p>For the gay that opened this thread:
Taking math and physics courses on undergraduate level in BC wont be the same as going to WPI as doing engineering. U need to find what u wanna do in your life. If u wanna certainly be an engineer then go to WPI, because here u are gonna take like 20 courses from your major, and i dont see a way how physics and math can compensate courses that u would take in engineering major. it’s just impossible, because math is a core of all subjects and it’s extremely important, but physics will give u an idea how things work, but u wont have practice and u wont learn anything that’s applicable. i love physics, but it’s just theory, and the further u go in physics, it looks more like math.</p>
<p>DHman06-- Thank you for your opinion, but your opinions made my thread controversial. I would rather suggest you to post your opinions on BU/NEU threads since you want to attend those schools.</p>
<p>Whitesnake-- “For the gay that opened this thread” same to you. I suggest wherever you post, show some honor for the OP and while posting something, keep in mind that not everyone can make a quick decision.</p>
<p>SRB2006, I don’t know if anyone has told you that you can any class you want at BU if you attend BC, including engineering classes. You can attend BC, take physics and math, and still go to BU for one or two classes a semester and do your engineering. BC and BU have a 5-year BA/BS dual degree for engineering and liberal arts. You will have to work it out with the Dean since it has been more than ten years since someone did it. But you can still go to BC and still do engineering.</p>
<p>^^ Wow… Hold on… I can do that?? I totally didn’t know that. THANK YOU soo much Reddune. </p>
<p>Anyway, Thank you everyone for your honest opinions. I am going to open a new thread about WPI courses, workload and related stuffs. Please feel free to stop by as your opinion can help me make a critical decision.</p>
<p>SRB
That info–about cross-registering–is what I was looking for. WPI may be the right school for Tmom and FireFS, but this is an alternative (be it 5 years, which rather wipes out the $ incentive). Call BC to discuss.</p>
<p>Sorry your post attracted some not so helpful responses. I usually never step out of the Parent’s forum, but I never doubted the sincerity of your initial post.</p>
<p>bookworm-- where is so called parents forum. I have been trying to find it for couple of days now, but can’t find it Can you give me the link please?</p>
<p>SRB - consider for a moment Whitesnake meant to type “guy” not gay - it has a whole different feeling. I generally like to give the benefit of the doubt.</p>
<p>Great info on BC and BU - check into it - BC looks better for you all the time. I’ll be watching your other thread for pertinent info for my son.</p>
<p>DHman - did you apply to MIT and Caltech? Yes my son was rejected from those tech schools. He was also accepted at 6 other schools besides WPI and chose WPI despite its dozens of apparent dummies. I bet if one looked at the SAT scores of all the students at BU, BC, NEU and the other schools you mention, one would find at least a dozen or so with lower than the average stated SATs as well.</p>
<p>As I said, information is a good thing, a little information is not. </p>
<p>Work on that grammar and vocabulary though (I can excuse the spelling errors on a Blackberry - but not the others) </p>
<p>I do wish you the best of luck at whatever college you chose and have a great college life. Someday you will come to understand that appearances are not everything and that things in life are rarely ever as simple as they may appear.</p>
<p>WPI can cross register with Holy Cross, as Boston University can cross register with Boston College. So if you don’t see HC as all that different than BU, it is not really a factor. </p>
<p>I think that Boston College looks like a good choice for you. If you really decide that math/physics is not for you, then you can transfer to an engineering college at the end of your freshman year. </p>
<p>DHMan06 - In the adult world you are going to run into serious problems if you insult people or groups of people with no evidence, bad evidence, or flawed logic.</p>
<p>@al6200
I dont think that there is any student from WPI, who would talk about some other university as DHMan06 talks about WPI. We never learned to treat other universities with disrespect and to say that some other universities suck without any evidence. If ppl on his university are like him, that just tells a lot about his university’s curriculum. I met many ppl from MIT that is the best engineering school in the world, and they never treated anyone with disrespect, and for me that is also the factor that makes school being great.</p>
Can you give me the link please?</p>