<p>Please help me, I really dont know who to pick!
The problem is...
Both schools are offering me a full ride, including room and board.
I want to major in Chemical Engineering and both school have great programs.
I'm from Hawaii and neither even remotely resemble Hawaii (making me sad)
I am also interested in Aerospace E (only RPI), Physics, Biomed E, and English (way better at CMU than RPI)</p>
<p>What school is better for engineering? Overall? Social life? Prestige? but most of all... WHERE SHOULD I GO!?</p>
<p>go to CMU. RPI is in troy, troy sucks. basically. CMU gives you a free bus pass and the campus is in a residential area but there is so much to do nearby and it is a great city (#3 college city or something like that I think). Troy on the other hand is just gross and not much to do there. and I don't know about engineering, but CMU is a better school overall. go to CMU.</p>
<p>is this even a question? cmu is top 10 in engineering.. rpi..well it's not. if cmu is giving you a full ride, it shouldnt even take you 2 seconds to decide.</p>
<p>The thing is, in the war of picking a major, chem E only beats aero E by a hair and RPI has aerospace E and CMU doesnt. If I go to CMU and I figure out that Chem E isn't for me I can't swich to Aero E becuse it isn't offered. That is what makes what would otherwise be an obvious answer a question.</p>
<p>If you find that you don't like ChemE and you'd rather do aerospace, you can still do MechE and specialize in aerospace in grad school or through internships and early jobs. At RPI (and most other engineering colleges), the MechE and Aeronautical engineering tracks are almost identical. They're even housed in the same department. As a freshman at CMU, you'd be required to take two freshman engineering courses, so you'd get a taste of both ChemE and MechE.</p>
<p>My roommate also got full scholarships to both CMU and RPI (obviously, he picked CMU). So yeah, I'd recommend CMU. Dude, full scholarship. Geez.</p>
<p>Yea.. Pittsburgh > Troy and CMU > RPI.</p>
<p>But if i wanted to change from Chem E to mechE in CMU, wouldn't it not look as good to a grad school(for aero E) or internship recruiter(for aero E) if the applicant was majoring in aerospace E than mechE?</p>
<p>Airline connections will be so much better at Pittsburgh than Troy, and probably cheaper too. </p>
<p>There is a nice, big, hot house at Schenly Park (adjacent to CMU) if you get homesick.</p>
<p>I don't know very much about grad school admissions for aeroE, but I would think that as long as you have a solid background in fundamental related areas (mechE, physics, math, etc.), you'd be fine. I don't think a grad school would punish you just because your school doesn't specifically offer an aeroE program. </p>
<p>Any recruiter that comes here is going to know that there's not an aeroE degree program, and they do seem to recruit for aeroE internships. I just checked this out at the CMU Technical Opportunities Conference site: <a href="http://swetietoc.pc.cc.cmu.edu/toc/2006/%5B/url%5D">http://swetietoc.pc.cc.cmu.edu/toc/2006/</a> . The aerospace companies seem to be looking for MechE people.</p>