<p>I'm trying to expand my list of possible engineering schools (mechanical) to attend next year. I have a 33 ACT and 3.9 GPA. Minnesota Resident. I'm looking for a large school and don't care if it's urban or rural. Here's what I have so far:</p>
<p>U of MN Twin Cities
Wisconsin- Madison
Purdue
Texas-Austin</p>
<p>I feel like I should apply to some privates as well. Any suggestions appreciated, Thank you!</p>
<p>Schools to Consider</p>
<p>UMichigan
GeorgiaTech
Cornell
UIllinois</p>
<p>Can you afford all those OOS schools?</p>
<p>Erin’s Dad- That’s been one of my issues with adding the 50K plus OOS schools like Berkeley and Michigan. I was hoping for some Merit Scholarships, as I know those state schools don’t do much FA. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>^Georgia Tech is less expensive at 39K for OOS. Plus they have a great co-op program so you could earn a good bit of money while in school.</p>
<p>Look at PSU!! WE ARE PENN STATE!!!</p>
<p>Northeastern has good merit aid, and a good engineering coop program.</p>
<p>Minnesota participates in the MSEP and with your stats you would receive a tuition discount at U Nebraska. You would probably also receive a discount at Kansas and Missouri. I know nothing about the engineering programs though.</p>
<p>These Co-Op programs sound very interesting, are you automatically admitted into these or do you apply? Any other schools with these co-op programs?</p>
<p>Wisconsin has one and UMinn probably too. Pretty common at eng schools. It would be hard to justify spending the extra to go to any other state U for eng over UW and UMinn as both are very good in eng. for much less money.</p>
<p><a href=“Engineering Career Services – College of Engineering – UW–Madison”>Engineering Career Services – College of Engineering – UW–Madison;
<p>^ Agree with Barrons.</p>
<p>choose the school based on what you want to study (Maybe your not set totally on Mechanical):
Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering: Texas, Carnegie Mellon, Illinois, Maryland, Berkeley, Washington
Aerospace Engineering: Georgia Tech, Purdue, Maryland (We are located right next to Luckheed Martin!)
Bioengineering: Duke, JHU, Georgia Tech
Petroleum Engineering: Texas A&M, Texas
Mechanical Engineering: Michigan, Illinois, Purdue, MIT</p>
<p>However, DO NOT go OOS if the finances do not work out. Stay in-state and just work really hard.</p>
<p>Berkeley will normally be expensive for out of state students, but you can try for the full ride [Drake</a> Scholarship](<a href=“http://www.me.berkeley.edu/StudentAffairs/ProspectiveStudents/Undergraduate/Drake.html]Drake”>http://www.me.berkeley.edu/StudentAffairs/ProspectiveStudents/Undergraduate/Drake.html) if you are set on mechanical engineering.</p>
<p>" However, DO NOT go OOS if the finances do not work out. Stay in-state and just work really hard. "</p>
<p>I’m curious if this is because of the strength of the instate programs (Minn+Wisc) or because the debt is not “worth” it and the rewards of going OOS are negligible. Thanks for your input.</p>
<p>Both are very good and there is no significant advantage at all going to any other public. Fo example UMinn and UW have among the top 5 chem eng programs in the US and are overall Top 20 out of hundreds.</p>
<p>“worth” depends on what’s your objective. job or grad school. in general, your terminal institution/degree counts more. uw and u minn are so good that given your stats - low for merit schols - unless you really want to get away, and have $, i would stick with these two fine schools. but, uw>u minn - gets you out of state and slightly better school and environment.</p>
<p>" no significant advantage at all going to any other public "</p>
<p>Are there any privates to look into that could match the level of Minn and Wisc?</p>
<p>CMU, USC, Northwestern, Duke, Hopkins</p>
<p>U of Alabama wouldn’t be as prestigious of a program but you would qualify for the merit presidential scholarship for full OOS tuition and an additional 2500$ a year.</p>
<p>[Scholarships</a> - Undergraduate Students - The College of Engineering - The University of Alabama](<a href=“http://eng.ua.edu/undergraduate/scholarships/]Scholarships”>Scholarships – College of Engineering | The University of Alabama)</p>
<p>Something to consider when running the numbers.</p>
<p>Basically, any other school, public or private, would have to have a significantly less expensive net cost after non-loan financial aid to be worth choosing over Minnesota or Wisconsin at in-state cost.</p>
<p>E.g. Berkeley with full ride Drake Scholarship would be worth choosing, but Berkeley at typical out-of-state cost would not.</p>