<p>I am looking for a college with a very good engineering program (either majoring in computer science or aerospace engineering) as well as a strong Japanese program for my minor. What are the top choices with this combination?</p>
<p>For strong as well as highly selective schools, start by looking at Carnegie Mellon and Tufts. But you really need to provide more information (e.g., preferred size, location, your own stats, etc.) if you want to get meaningful help on this thread.</p>
<p>Actually, if you decide you want the aerospace engineering for sure, then try Notre Dame, Penn State, U of Maryland. (There are many others but give us some other preferences first.)</p>
<p>I know someone that majored in engineering at MIT and took all of his Japanese courses at Harvard. If you’re only minoring in Japanese, cross-registering at Harvard for your language classes is reasonable.</p>
<p>Frankly, the top-ranked engineering schools that aren’t Institutes of Technology tend to have good language programs too. </p>
<p>Dartmouth has an outstanding language program. The engineering school is non-traditional though, so you’d have to see if it would suit you.</p>
<p>Sorry about forgetting my info. I am from Washington State. I go to a college prep high school. My GPA will be about 3.5 on graduation but that is only because of the rigor of my school. My SAT scores are all above 700 so they should be able to get me into even the highest colleges with a little more work. I don’t care about the schools size or location because I want the best education. I also don’t care whether it is private or public. I will look into your suggestions. I have been told that Georgia tech is good for both of these but I am not sure about it. What do you think about this? I am going to look into MIT while cross-registering at Harvard as well as into Dartmouth. I am slightly confused about how cross registering works so additional information would be great. If you have any more suggestion, please post some more as to why you suggestion is better than the ones that I am looking into. By the way, thanks for all of the help in this matter.</p>
<p>Cross-registration means that students have the opportunity to take classes at other specified institutions nearby. Not all colleges offer this option.</p>
<p>Speaking of cross-registration, you should definitely look into Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. It is one of the members of the “Claremont Consortium” colleges. (The others are Pomoma, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps.) You can get a world-class science/engineering/math/computer science education at Harvey Mudd while taking courses in many other areas (including Japanese) at any of the neighboring schools.</p>
<p>I think GT would be a good choice. The engineering/CS reputation doesn’t need much said about it, and there are plenty of otaku (lol, first time I have had a legitimate reason to use that word) on campus to fuel a healthy japanese curriculum. If the course you want is not offered at GT, there is transportation to and cross registration with Emory as well.</p>
<p>If you want to consider an LAC, look at Bucknell. It has a top ranked engineering program (look at the USNEWS undergraduate engineering ranks) and a good East Asian Studies major. With the East Asian major, you have to choose either a Japanese or Chinese emphasis.</p>
<p>Purdue. </p>
<p>Highly Ranked Engineering program and Comp. Sci. program. They also do have a decent Japanese program that I’m aware of.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon (CMU) is one of the top 3 CS schools in the country. In addition, all CS majors at CMU are ** required ** to complete a minor. Modern languages is a popular choice and Japanese is one of the languages offered by the ML department.</p>
<p>First of, what is a LAC? I know that it is not a public university but nothing other than that. As for the cross registering, do I have to be accepted by both schools if cross registering or does acceptance to your primary allow one to register at the other school without acceptance. I was also wondering which one is most prestigious because if I were to go to Japan to use my skills, my college will have to be rebound enough for people oversees to know about it. As for Carnegie melon, does it have a good aerospace engineering program as well or just CS. I was also wondering what the top two were for CS if Carnegie melon was 2nd.</p>
<p>A LAC is a Liberal Arts College which usually has no or minimal advanced degree students. Those schools tend to be smaller and more focused on undergrad classes. There are very few public school LACs (and many do not have engineering). </p>
<p>On a different note, will your parents be able to pay for an OOS college?</p>
<p>Would I want to stay away from LAC schools then since they won’t have engineering programs unless they can cross register like Harvey Mudd? I was also wondering what a OOS is.</p>
<p>OOS = Out of State. There are some LACs (like Bucknell mentioned above) that have engineering. It’s more a question of whether you like big schools or small.</p>
<p>Is a well known institution where many people will know it as a great place to learn or a smaller school, less known, but an even better place to learn?</p>
<p>One thing that I have talking to my advisor about lately is about admissions to these schools. Although my admission profile will be fairly good, I am worried that it will not be up to par for the best like Cal Tech or MIT. Those are definitely schools that I want to graduate from, no matter how much work is required. It may be a little too late now to prepare myself for the admissions process next year but I wanted you opinion on this. I will most likely get into the university of Washington and Georgia Tech. Will it be likely that I will be able to transfer from those schools to the top like MIT or is that too big of a stretch? I really want to go to an Ivy League school but I think that I am not prepared so please be realistic if this plan will work. Thank you in advance for your advice.</p>
<p>Transfer rates into MIT and the Ivies are extremely low. And I’ve often seen the limited spaces that do exist go to students from non-traditional or underrepresented backgrounds. So, if that’s not you, then to be in the running, you will probably have to really distinguish yourself wherever you land. If you don’t end up at a top-choice college initially, you might want to try to make a mark wherever you go and look ahead to MIT or an Ivy for graduate school rather than as a transfer.</p>