<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>That isn’t nearly enough information. Where are you from (what state)? Public or private? Geographic preference? High school stats (so that you can get realistic suggestions)? Size preference? etc, etc</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 grduation 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 dont care about the schools size or location because I want the best education. I also dont care whether it is private or public.</p>
<p>You seem to have good stats for a lot of good engineering schools. I will first tell you to look at liberal art schools that have engineering majors such as Union or Swarthmore. It seems like you have interest that are all over the academic spectrum. Then I would look at a school that offers engineering students to take liberal arts electives, like a Boston U. However it would be harder for you to do that and the required engineering courses at the same time. But if I can give you a specfic start I would say look at:</p>
<p>Union College
Trinity College
Lafayette College
Bucknell University
Villanova University
Tufts University (but its sort of a reach)</p>
<p>Note: Not 100% sure if they all offer japanese studies but should offer something close.</p>
<p>Swarthmore, too.</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>
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<p>You do realize that Georgia Tech is a top 5 engineering school, and most years is ranked ahead of Cal Tech, right?</p>
<p>I realize that. I have been looking at Georgia tech admissions and have seen that the admissions requirements are much lower for GT than MIT or Cal Tech. I may be wrong but this is what I have been seeing.</p>
<p>“I realize that. I have been looking at Georgia tech admissions and have seen that the admissions requirements are much lower for GT than MIT or Cal Tech. I may be wrong but this is what I have been seeing.”</p>
<p>I think his point was that you would be transferring to a worse Engineering school.</p>
<p>I see his point as far as cal tech goes. I think that I would prefer to go to MIT anyway so unless GT is better than MIT, I would still want to transfer over there. I would also get to take Japanese at Harvard which is bound to be better than the program at GT because Harvard is a law school and lawyers need to know multiple languages.</p>
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<p>Did you just make that up? The only other language that would really be useful for a lawyer is Latin simply because all of the legal terms are Latin. Maybe if you are a lawyer in SoCal you would need to know Spanish, but it is by no means required.</p>
<p>My point was that your comments come across as “whoa is me… I might be forced to settle for a Top 5 program…” Sure Cal Tech is a more difficult school to get into, but who cares? Once you’re there, it’s all about the program and the companies hiring from that program, not the school’s acceptance rate.</p>
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<p>Where did that come from? A better argument is that Harvard has a stronger history department, and history departments require foreign languages, usually (unless you’re studying US history). Or you could have gone with a Divinity School (though I don’t know of any Divinity programs that require Japanese, but you get the point).</p>
<p>^should be “woe” but you get the idea.</p>
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<p>Georgia Tech’s admission stats are misleading. Many get in but a relative few graduate. Both my husband and daughter attended Ga Tech and will tell you they were very difficult years spent there. Tech is willing to give you a chance to make it but be aware that making it requires a lot of work.The education you will receive will be outstanding, not doubt about it.</p>
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<p>Go to GT and get a 3.8+ GPA for at least a year. IF you can manage that (which despite what you might think about your rigorous HS GT will surely show you something much more rigorous), along with thoroughly impressing some faculty at Gtech enough to write you a good letter of rec, and convince MIT/CalT that you have some legitimate reason that you want to transfer other than youre obsessed with the names of the schools, maybe. </p>
<p>But, I can tell you from the sound of your previous posts that you need to change your attitude ASAP. Nobody, not MIT/CalT or GT is going to be impressed with it as of now.</p>
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<p>Keep in mind that the top 1% of students graduate with a 3.55 GPA from GT (and it usually starts low and works up). Average freshman GPA is in the low to mid 2’s (and keep in mind that these are all students with 2000 SAT scores and 3.8 UW HS GPAs).</p>
<p>That… was my point.</p>
<p>The OP probably didn’t realize that. Most people think “I was the smartest kid in my high school. A 4.0 should be easy.” What they don’t realize is that at a top university, the bottom 10% in that college were probably in the Top 10% of their high school.</p>
<p>“Keep in mind that the top 1% of students graduate with a 3.55 GPA from GT (and it usually starts low and works up). Average freshman GPA is in the low to mid 2’s (and keep in mind that these are all students with 2000 SAT scores and 3.8 UW HS GPAs).”</p>
<p>I thought the 2.9 median at Michigan was low. That’s crazy.</p>