<p>Hello guys,
I'm an international student who is willing to study mechanical engineering.
I've been accepted to these following universities for engineering:
Rose- Hulman Inst. Tech.
V Tech
Purdue
Penn State
Ohio State
Texas A&M
I was planning on going to UIUC, but unfortunately, I got denied.
Can you help me choose my university please?</p>
<p>Purdue would seem like the obvious substitution after UIUC, just cause it’s ranked one below UIUC in Mech E. Alternatively, if you wanted a smaller school, Rose-Hulman is definitely viable. However, I would definitely push you towards Purdue, just cause more employers have heard of it. </p>
<p>Here is a handy calculator that you can run the numbers and other items of interest through. <a href=“Your Guide for College Financial Aid - Finaid”>Your Guide for College Financial Aid - Finaid;
<p>When you are thinking about travel, remember that some of these universities will be much easier for you to get to and from than others.</p>
<p>Congratulations! Those are really good schools. 
Can you afford each one of those?
You could simply choose the least expensive.
Purdue will be well-known and well-recruited in the Midwest, VTech in the South, Penn State and Ohio State equally in the North East (with Penn State having the largest alumni network in the country, Ohio State straddling Northeast and Midwest), Texas A&M in the Southwest. Rose Hulman will be the least impersonal school, you’ll have a closer-knit community, more support, but it’s also more isolated and it’s strictly techie. VTech and Purdue are also mostly engineering, TAMU has many different majors but it’s only highly ranked for engineering, Penn State and Ohio State have a very wide mix of majors and an equal male/female ratio. TAMU is one of the most conservative schools in the country and the others aren’t super politically active and pretty moderate.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for the responses!</p>
<p>thanks, happymom.</p>