<p>I think your parents should take a look at the US News engineering rankings to get a feel of how prestigious the engineering programs in the US. They come out next week along with all the other US News rankings in the US News Best Colleges or whatever that magazine is called. In engineering, a school like Texas A&M, Purdue or Illinois is ranked higher than Yale, Dartmouth or Harvard. Just letting you know that engineering rankings/prestige are different than the general rankings/prestige.</p>
<p>Are you sure the WVU Promise Scholarship can be applied to UT-Knoxville? I took a quick look at it and there wasn’t anything saying about out-of-state stuff.</p>