Biomedical/Mechanical, or other Engineering Programs on East Coast

College Search & Selection
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<p>Ok I am a rising senior who lives in CT and I am interested in engineering (undecided b/w BME, ME or Materials E). After that I might go in to an engineering related career or med school. The thing is my parents are confining me to basically the east coast (As far west as Pennsylvania, as far south as near Washington DC, and as north as New Hampshire) and by cost, of course.</p>

<pre><code> Here is a list I created of the schools that I have thrown around that have engineering programs. Can you guys give me some advice as to what their engineering programs are like (maybe which are better than the others), how much engineer underagrads are taken care of (opportunities, projects, abroad, research), the tuition/amount of financial aid, and campus life? And If am missing any schools I should be looking at please tell me also. Sorry I have a lot to ask
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<p>-Boston University
-Brown U
-Carnegie Mellon U
-Columbia U
-UConn
-Dartmouth U
-U of Delaware
-Drexel U
-Olin College
-Georgetown U
-Johns Hopkins
-Loyola MD
-NYU
-Northeastern
-UPenn
-U Pitts
-Princeton
-RPI
-Swarthmore
-Tufts
-Vassar
-Virginia Tech
-WPI
(I didn't add MIT, Stanford or the rest of the Ivies. Im not that smart)
Also, these are school that are outside the boundaries should my parents change their minds...(highly unlikely)
-Duke
-Clemson
-Purdue
-Bowdoin</p>

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<p>OK ok you caught me on that one buddy, I will revise this post just for you</p>

<p>What I mean is that I think some of the Ivy’s and schools like MIT are more into the redonkulously intelligent, 2400 SAT scoring people and some others are more into creative, liberal minded, (but not dumb) individuals</p>

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<p>And based on other threads I have seen the Ivy schools on my list have popular engineering programs…even though its pretty much more than half</p>

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<p>“as far south as near DC”.
You are aware that Virginia Tech, Clemson, and Duke are south of DC, the closest being VT at 5hrs.</p>

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<p>I know but I said near</p>

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<p>Also:

  • Bucknell
  • College of NJ
  • Lafayette
  • Lehigh
  • Penn State
  • NJIT
  • Rowan (NJ)
  • Rutgers
  • Stevens</p>

<p>I don’t believe that Georgetown has engineering.</p>

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<p>If you have any questions about Clemson, let me know!</p>

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<p>Can anyone distinguish between the party school and the ones for the serious student?</p>

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<p>^Clemson is neither. You can party if you want to or get really involved in academics if you want to. It’s up to your choice and there are a fair number of people on both sides.</p>

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<p>Also has a well rated biomedical engineering program.</p>

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<p>and whats the fastest/ cheapest way to get to clemson (or any other schools in that region) other than by car?</p>

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<p>Amtrak to Clemson, plane to Greenville</p>

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<p>For BME, the top programs there are probably Hopkins, Duke, Penn</p>

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<p>Consider Drexel Materials. Strong department, Co-op is a major advantage.</p>