<p>Anyone who hires engineers knows the great engineering schools. Your career as a working engineer is likely short, however, on average to age 35, so that’s when an Ivy degree can kick in, especially at management levels.</p>
<p>Your GC shouldn’t have deleted the other schools, he should have added the Ivies and told you to apply to them all. </p>
<p>If you’re doing Ivies, definitely consider UPenn, which has a decent computer program (they were one of the inventors of the thing), plus access to Wharton for some business classes would make a pretty powerful combo.</p>