I’m having trouble finding some realistic safety schools (as in having a very good chance of being accepted) for engineering; a google search of engineering schools in the US just gives you the best of the best. So does anyone know any engineering schools that would be good to apply to just in case the Purdue the like don’t accept me?
No one can suggest what can be a safety if you do not give any information about your academic qualifications, state of residency (or if you are an international student), financial aid situation, and net price limit.
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home state?
GPA?
SAT breakdown and ACT scores?
How much will your family pay?
what E discipline?
Since you say “in the US” should we assume you are an international student?
I am international yes sorry I should have mentioned that, so it really doesn’t matter what state the college is in. My GPA is 3.7. I just need an engineering school that is not extremely well known or hard to get into. I was thinking a school that accepted people with SAT scores of 1600-1700. Mine is a 1900 currently.
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Mine is a 1900 currently.
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What is the breakdown?
And how much will your family pay? Purdue will expect you to pay ALL costs…about $48k per year plus travel and health insurance.
700 critical reading, 600 math, and 600 writing. I’m planning to take it again though. Money-wise Purdue is OK.
There are lots of accredited engineering schools that aren’t very hard to get into. Do you know what field of engineering you want? Do you care about location at all? (Some good engineering schools are in remote rural areas, freezing cold places, etc.)
UW-Platteville – it’s known as the Engineering school among the non-flagship schools in the UW System.
It’s in a pretty area, within the hills/ridges/bluffs of southwestern Wisconsin. The Mississippi River is nearby.
Madison is a little over an hour away, Milwaukee is about 2.5 hours, Chicago is about 3.5 hours, and the Twin Cities are about 4.5 hours away by car.
Dubuque, a pretty, old, small city on the Mississippi, is 15 minutes away from Platteville.
You are 10 points over the 75th percentile (CR+M) at Clarkson. The school is easy to recommend if you think you might like a solid engineering program in a remote, beautiful location.
You have a 1300 M+CR. At Alabama, you’d get a half tuition scholarship…worth about $13k per year.
As an international, your U.S. geography may be a little hazy – or superb, for that matter – either way it’s worth noting that Clarkson’s location is near to that of the home of the 1980 (The “Miracle on Ice”) and 1932 Winter Olympic Games, Lake Placid.
^ That would be one of the freezing cold places mentioned by @Hanna in post #7. 
Michigan Tech is like that (Clarkson), but with a harsher climate.
Also, Lake State (which I’m almost embarrassed to mention again) has ABET accredited engineering programs, and starting this year has “one tuition” for North America (about 10600 per year, last I looked) and has some merit scholarships. Would be worth a call if money is tight. It’s a different culture, and not for everyone. We visited, and I liked it. Part of me wishes I’d known about it a couple decades ago.
There are a couple other upper Midwest schools we found with reasonable OOS tuitions and engineering.
But if money isn’t an object, tastes can trump budget with ease. For the rest of us, maybe not so much.
Acceptance for international students cannot be compared directly with that for domestic students.
Nearly every state flagship has a good engineering program.If you are looking for cold weather, South Dakota State has a good engineering program in a small college town environment. The South Dakota School of Mines is in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and is beautiful. Both of these schools would be affordable and have less pressure from volume applications, so your chances are very good for acceptance.
Re #12: Nevertheless, the U.S. hockey team didn’t get back on the bus after they’d arrived in the area. Do you believe in miracles? Yes!
Whoops, missed the international part.
In that case, Bradley, although private, has tuition in the 30k range. It’s in Peoria (Caterpillar’s HQ), meaning an internship after sophomore year might be possible without a lot of disruption. I believe they take the common app, and the application fee is (at least for US) zero.
Some others that might not be too bad in the Midwest area, and should not be any more expensive than Purdue:
Valparaiso
Toledo
Ohio Northern
Miami (OH)
Ohio U.
IUPUI
Western Michigan (also has aero, if that’s a concern)
St Cloud State U (near a train station, if that’s of interest).
I like the UW Platteville idea, as well as the SD School of Mines.
Really, there are bunches more.
Maybe look up the ABET website and see who’s on it?