<p>Nvm okay y'all dont wanna respond</p>
<p>How many ways are you going to repose the same question?</p>
<p>What? No Cornell? Which is funny because it is a lot better engineering school than some of the other candidates you have up there.</p>
<p>Oh no I’ll most definitely be applying to Cornell, but Cornell as far as selectivity doesn’t really fall into extreme far reach like all the schools listed above. I’m only going to apply to 2-3 of the schools listed above and I’m not sure which ones are best at engineering.</p>
<p>The 3 would be: Stanford, MIT, & UPENN</p>
<p>So why are you so intent on applying if you don’t even know which are good at what you want to study? You are way too obsessed with prestige rather than finding a school that is stron in your preferred field and that fits you.</p>
<p>You misinterpret me, my dream school is Rice, and thats certainly not the most prestigious school. I know UC Berkley and Cornell are also near the top. I just dont know which of the highest selectivity schools are the best in engineering. I am concerned with fit, but I’m not going to apply to Yale if its 8% acceptance and isnt even that good in engineering.</p>
<p>I would take MIT, Stanford, and Columbia. But it depends a bit on which field(s) you are interested in, as that does tilt the tables a bit.</p>
<p>Why is Rice your dream school? It seems an odd choice for a prospective engineer, especially one who is considering applying to Stanford and MIT.</p>
<p>I take that back, maybe I wouldn’t say Rice is my dream school, but I believe it would be the best school environment ( non-academically ) for me. I was there overnight for a couple days, I got to sleep in the dorms, and everything was perfect. and its also a top 20 engineering school</p>
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By what ranking? Most of the rankings I have seen place it in the 30’s. Nothing wrong with that, perfectly respectable and someplace that will give you a quality engineering education, but I don’t see where this is backed up.</p>
<p>Rice has a very good engineering program and is not way out of line for someone considering MIT or Stanford. Their focus is different. They have a few grads, but are primarily an undergraduate teaching institution. In my book that’s good if you are looking for undergraduate programs.</p>
<p>What stood out tome was UCB, Cornell and Rice listed as top choices. They are all very different schools. The experiences will not be equivalent. </p>
<p>Rice is tiny. You live with the same group the whole time you’re there, like Hogwarts. I’ve heard UCB described as “like going to school at the DMV.” It’s huge and very institutional.</p>
<p>Students love both. They both have great engineering programs. They are vastly different.</p>
<p>If you feel “at home” at Rice, you should be looking at schools like Lehigh, WPI, and RHIT. They are all much smaller than UCB and Cornell, yet have very well respected engineering programs. Pay attention to fit not bogus prestige rankings.</p>
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<p>Four-way tie for 16th, and a third of Rice students are engineering majors: [Rice</a> U. continues to be ranked among the countrys top 20 best universities](<a href=“http://news.rice.edu/2012/09/12/rice-u-continues-to-be-ranked-among-the-countrys-top-20-best-universities-2/]Rice”>http://news.rice.edu/2012/09/12/rice-u-continues-to-be-ranked-among-the-countrys-top-20-best-universities-2/)</p>
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Apparently their math is different than yours, because the last I saw USNWR, while ranking Rice at 17th overall, placed them 31st for engineering.</p>
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<p>It is not my math, but what Rice says on their webpage – click on the link and look toward the bottom. I think you are confusing undergrad engineering (where Rice is 16th) with grad engineering (where Rice is ranked lower).</p>
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<p>Rice is very high in the list of my daughter’s grad architecture schools - having said this, Houston weather is awful, and I’ve lived in the South for a while. Just to understand what ‘tiny’ means in terms of students, they accept like 16 grad students a year and maybe 30 undergrads to their architecture program (ranked like #3-4 or so). Schools like Texas A&M on the other hand have architecture departments the size of a small nation. Engineering is not any better numbers wise. The reason their architecture - like their engineering - is so good? focus on teaching. </p>
<p>As a friend who taught at CMU told me, their biggest issue in engineering was to convince their incoming freshman class that really there are other ace students in addition to themselves. </p>
<p>Engineering is not about selectivity and hoity-toity name recognition that supposedly has the rest of humanity tremble with awe. I finished the #2 or #3 ranked at the time (specialty: industrial engineering) US program in my days and found out the ranking after I graduated when I finally bothered to read a photocopy of US News and World Report rankings I had stashed away with my paperwork and never bothered to read… </p>
<p>Engineering is not a competitive sport. In the real world you cooperate with, take orders from, and deal with all kinds of people, from Ivy League to Community College. If you insist on the absolutely perfectest school there is, you’re only setting yourself up for failure if/when what you want to do does not pan out.</p>
<p>Engineering is hard enough as it is :). Best of luck!</p>
<p>I would say MIT, Stanford, and Harvard in that order. Replace Harvard with Brown if you are going into CS.</p>
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