<p>@pbleic</p>
<p>I love sciences! But not more than I love economics and music. I want to study engineering with an emphasis on liberal arts subjects. I don’t have the knowledge about the liberal arts courses and subjects at MIT. Do MIT and schools like it, provide similar opportunities and interdisciplinary courses to its students as HYPS and other Ivies do?</p>
<p>jshain
I checked the ranking for Graduate Schools for Engineering. </p>
<p>Justadream92
HA! What I meant was that I am in a fix between Stan and UPenn for Early admission. Either ways, I’ll be applying to both colleges! :]</p>
<p>Stanford’s beautiful… just saying 
The campus is REALLY pretty and it’s WARM!!!</p>
<p>I’m an engineer at Princeton (turned down Stanford, but wasn’t an engineer at the time, and not in a hard science field). It’s very good, but the workload is significant. On the other hand, you won’t have to worry about jobs post-graduation.</p>
<p>I turned down MIT and Stanford to go to Princeton for engineering. Boooyah! The reason I did this was because I know that pure engineering is relatively a dead-end career (salary cap around 70K), and the smart ones always go into management, consulting, finance, or banking (to make more money and have a less “menial” job), so I picked Princeton because it would give me a strong quantitative background while giving me a more theoretical engineering education. Plus, employers won’t look at Princeton on my resume and automatically assume I have no skills aside from being a brainy math/science person. Plus, it’s PRINCETON. Big 3 woot woot!</p>
<p>I had this above epiphany after investigating the school more. At Princeton, in almost every department, most commonly engineering, economics, a handful of people go on to finance/trading after graduation (even humanities majors do this), and some of those positions start at 100K/year, fresh out of college.</p>
<p>If I was really dedicated to engineering, good choices would have included: MIT, Caltech, Purdue, Georgia Tech, but, I realized I could be doing other things in life.</p>
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That’s the worst logic I have ever heard. MIT and Stanford>>Princeton in engineering and no employer is going to assume that “you have no skills aside from being a brainy math/science person” just because you go to MIT.</p>
<p>Why do you want to study engineering if your goal is finance? Working at Boeing, NASA, Medtronic, the DoD, etc. are not “menial” jobs. Please have some respect for the profession that you will be studying for in college and SHOULD be entering theoretically after college.</p>
<p>No, actually, many people pick Princeton for engineering for specifically the reasons I listed above. Princeton engineering does definitely have a more theoretical bent, and don’t necessarily give you the best preparation to go into industry. They assume that their engineers will take on other roles.</p>
<p>The reason engineers are successful in finance etc is not because they work their ass off. It’s because engineering teaches you to think in a certain way… it changes your outlook of your world.<br>
I think MIT and Princeton both have great engineering courses, and it’s not possible to reach peremptory conclusion!
It’s all about the feel of the college, the vibes, the closeness—the belongingness methinks.</p>
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<p>Most certainly not in financial engineering.</p>
<p>itsmylife99: do you have a hook?</p>
<p>schee410
No I don’t.</p>
<p>itsmylif99 -</p>
<p>MIT has either the number 1 or 2 economics department in the country. They have lots of interesting music courses, and far more liberal arts courses than you could need or want. That being said, they may not all be as prestigious as some at HPY. </p>
<p>If you are interested in engineering and liberal arts, you should think about Harvey Mudd and/or Bucknell.</p>
<p>Princeton has one of the best engineering schools in the country.</p>
<p>Darn all of those public state schools squeezing out the Ivy League for top ten supremacy. Well, save for Cornell. :-)</p>
<p>@itsmylife,</p>
<p>Usually when picking a university strength in a particular fields does not matter as much as the overall reputation of the University. However for extremely specialized courses like engineering this could be an issue. Most engineers and engineering firms know exactly or think they know how engineering is at Harvard and Yale I think. As I said HY are trying to improve their reputations in Engineering. </p>
<p>Read Up: [Harvard</a> Attracts More Potential Engineers | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/3/30/engineering-harvard-seas-school/]Harvard”>Harvard Attracts More Potential Engineers | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
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This is just not true. It is a very, very good engineering school, though.</p>
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<p>“one of the best” is vague enough that you can’t call the claim false.</p>
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What are your views on the subject of this thread?</p>
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<p>If I were sure that I wanted to pursue an engineering degree, I would pick MIT or Stanford over HYP, even if I wanted exposure to other fields that interested me (that criterion would, for me, eliminate only Caltech). But if I were already at HYP and decided to go into engineering, the programs’ quality would definitely not deter me; I am sure that they are still very strong.</p>
<p>Why eliminate Caltech? Do you know the acceptance rates at HYP for school of engineering? I’ve been trying to find them out for a quite a while now.</p>