<p>@stressedsenior97 top 10, one of the hardest programs from what i here – also one of the most selective with 7% acceptance rate </p>
<p>Well I figure since its a smaller department, I’d stand a better chance. But I want to try for another reach maybe just because I can. And is Chem E that hard? I thought EE was the hardest.</p>
<p>Organic Chemistry is very difficult for many students. In my day, ChemE was the most difficult discipline.</p>
<p>@NoVADad99 I see… I’m currently finding organic quite difficult as well as an IB Chemistry HL student. However, I do enjoy it immensely. Which school did you attend? Do you think I should apply to said schools (including Yale as a reach) for their Chem E programs?</p>
<p>I also would like to consider research opportunities available as well as potential career outlooks.</p>
<p>ChemE remains one of the toughest majors in part because organic is just one of the bears that can derail a career.</p>
<p>^^^That’s why I suggest that ChE majors enroll in Organic Chemistry during the summer session, when presumably they can concentrate all of their time on the subject.</p>
<p>However, at a semester system school, a summer session is about half as long as a semester, so a course taken during the summer session will cover material at double the speed.</p>
<p>you make a valid point, @ucbalumnus. where I teach the instruction period lasts about 30 days, with only 20-21 days of instruction.</p>
<p>Cooper Union has a great reputation, but lately it’s there’s been a lot of on campus controversy about the decision to charge tuition (it had been created as a tuition-free institution). Still probably an excellent place for anyone with an engineering focus. Downside is that if you decide engineering isn’t for you, there might not be many options.</p>
<p>Olin and Cooper Union used to be full tuition scholarships, but both schools’ endowments took hits during the recession and had to adjust their scholarship offers. Overall they both offer great education. </p>
<p>@jmek15 @NoVADad99 How does Cooper Union compare against other schools such as UMichigan, Georgia Tech, Berkeley? I’ve been unable to find anywhere that compares them. </p>
<p>My bad. Olin doesn’t offer ChemE, only EE, CS, and ME.</p>
<p>Cooper Union and Olin are very, very, good, small engineering schools. The schools you mentioned are large public schools so it’s very difficult to compare them except to say that if you decide engineering is not for you then your opportunities at the large schools are much greater. Are they on a par as far as engineering? in general, yes.</p>