<p>Any thoughts about FIT or E-R for mechanical engineering? SAT 2090.</p>
<p>Both are good technical universities in Florida, and if you get good merit aid may be good choices. They don’t really have strong national recognition for MechE and UF would prb. be a better choice given low IS tuition. If you are willing to go OOS, try GaTech, WPI, RPI, maybe Duke if you have great GPA/EC’s. Really depends on your career interests.</p>
<p>Both are relatively specialized schools and are somewhat odd choices for MechE. In florida, UF is easily the best choice, followed by UCF, then USF or FSU.</p>
<p>Why do you feel they are “odd” choices. I’m attending an international school and don’t own a home in the States, so I’m outta state everywhere, even though we pay taxes!!</p>
<p>ERAU would be a great choice for aeronautical science, and FIT has recognized programs in Marine and Ocean Engineering. Neither is that well known for MechE. You seem focused on florida, and if you are, the other choices I mentioned would be better and likely less expensive, unless you expect major scholarship offers from ERAU or FIT. I say “odd” because you are international and seem to have a laser-beam focus on two schools with spitting distance of each other near Daytona, yet neither is especially well ranked. Still, both are good schools, and I don’t mean to imply otherwise.</p>
<p>I live in the Middle East and do enjoy warm weather! Actually trying to eliminate schools on my list, so I plan to apply to only one of these. I need to attend a smaller school. Additionally, I feel driven to an tech school that focuses on engineering w/o the need for all the lib art classes…hate to waste time with them, and they are two years at the 4-yr pub schools.</p>