<p>I am seriously looking in to applying to some tech schools, but I want to find one that offers a decently balanced curriculum (= one where I can also study english / foreign language)... where can I find this?
thanks, all.</p>
<p>At MIT, students are required to take eight semesters of humanities, arts, or social science classes. Many students choose to take a foreign language to fulfill some of that requirement; the department teaches classes in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, ESL, and Japanese. Students are also free to cross-register for courses at Harvard, and many students choose to cross-register for classes in languages not taught at MIT, like Arabic or Latin.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd College has the advantage that there are 4 other liberal arts colleges around, so you get the benefits of a tech school in Mudd in addition to the diverse resources of classes offered at Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Pitzer. Furthermore, we are required to take 12 semesters of humanities and social sciences: the college really stresses "science with a conscience" as they call it.</p>
<p>ah. good schools, wonderful. hmm...now all I have to do is be amazing so I can get in....</p>
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<p>Why not just go to Stanford then?</p>
<p>That would require getting admitted to Stanford first.</p>
<p>Well going to any school requires getting admitted first. It might be helpful for you to provide a more clear idea of what caliber school you're looking at getting into so that people can make suggestions fitted specifically to you.</p>
<p>I was hoping for some middle to high range schools: not so much the best of the best MIT, HYP, Stanford no-one-gets-in schools, but still very good schools (eg RPI, Rose-Hulman, etc...) However, all of these calibur schools tend to be lacking in the humanities. I was hoping someone would be able to point me in a good direction. Thanks for y'all's help, by the way.</p>
<p>If you're interested in engineering, many non-tech schools offer 3/2 programs where you spend 3 years there fulfilling what you can and getting a degree, and then 2 years at a cooperating university filling out your engineering experience. I don't know many off the top of my head, but I encountered this a lot when looking at small schools and engineering. I know (or know of) people who have 3/2'd from CMC to Harvey Mudd and from Scripps to USC, for example. I don't know about the application procedure for such programs.</p>
<p>Some schools have strengths in both departments, but limit you upon entrance by assigning you to "School of Engineering" or "School of Arts & Letters" or whatever (like Berkeley, for example, and I don't totally recall but I believe USC may have been similar...probably most larger schools). I don't know exactly how limiting such categorization is, though, so perhaps such a program would allow you a strong tech program while also allowing you to take humanities electives, given the free time.</p>
<p>You might want to try looking at tech programs at non-tech schools simply because you'll be able to take non-tech GEs and get humanities classes here. At tech schools, you'll probably have much more tech-oriented GEs...basic chem, physics, and so forth, even if these aren't relevant to your degree. Then again, the atmosphere at a tech school is usually fairly different than elsewhere, probably due to the similarly minded nature of the student body, so if this is part of what appeals to you, then my suggestion may be misplaced.</p>
<p>Sorry for the lack of concrete suggestions, here...just throwing out a few variations of things you might look at. Good luck!</p>
<p>thanks for the advice! Your suggestions are useful, I would like the atmosphere at a tech school, but any regular school would probably also have a good atmosphere, I think it all really just depends on the school itself.<br>
To attend a 3/2 program I would have to love both schools. It sounds appealing, but I dont know really where to find what schools offer 3/2 programs, or what their partner schools are: and it seems sort of unlikely that they would both be schools I really like; but you never know! Thanks again.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd, Stanford and MIT, as mentioned above, are on my colleges list. But I was hoping for some suggestions for match/safety schools, because I can't only apply to these schools and expect to get in...</p>
<p>you may want to look into the programs at top tier liberal arts colleges that offer engineering: swarthmore, bucknell, lafayette and union.</p>
<p>i know you would be able to minor in english or a language at bucknell in addition to your engineering major. there is also a five year program allowing you to earn both your engineering degree and a ba liberal arts degree. i suspect the other schools above have similar programs.</p>
<p>while some of these schools are known for being quite preppy, the large percentage of engineers (~20% at bucknell, ~700 total engineering students) definitely provides for a subtantial 'techie' population, too.</p>
<p>Berkely, UIUC, and GT...public, good at engineering....although Berkely is tough to get into if your OOS</p>
<p>I have a friend who's in the engineering program at Calvin College (Grand Rapids, MI). This is definitely a very unique environment...it's a very conservative, very religious school. If this DOES have any interest, however, it has a 99%ish acceptance rate (yet still a very challenging and high-quality program...the friend I have there was a National Merit finalist and won the Bank of America certificate in math/science, and she's not breezing through) with the philosophy "easy in, hard to stay". Also, GEs are waived for engineers, allowing them to graduate in 4 years. She's had plenty of time to take humanities electives.</p>
<p><em>IF</em> the environment interests you, the program would definitely be worth looking into.</p>