here is a very interesting question for all of you

College Search & Selection
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<p>First and foremost, I have excellent grades, ECs and recommendations and all that, not going to talk about those too much....</p>

<p>The thing that bothers me right now is that I want to major in engineering, but the schools I've looked at like Georgia Tech and Harvey Mudd and such all have too much focus on engineering. In other words, the people you would be associating with during your undergrad life will mostly be engineers. Your friends will be engineers, your teammates will be engineers, not quite literally but a good amount of them will be engineers.... </p>

<p>(1)I want to go to a school that has a strong engineering program, along with a vast student body majoring in other majors, say medicine, or history, or law, or linguistics, etc. Simply put, I want to have friends on campus with different academic interest, along with different social interest. </p>

<p>(2)Also, I don't want to go to an easy-go-happy school. Let's face it, appropriate amount of stresses drives you to work hard and become successful. I want a school that would challenge me so I am better prepared for grad school and my future career. </p>

<p>(3)Population can be ranged anywhere from 5000 to 15,000.</p>

<p>(4)Balanced male to female ratio, give or take one or two percent. </p>

<p>(5)No drinking scenes, not too much party scenes. </p>

<p>(6)Decent campus settings, preferably large urban area, but suburbs and small towns are fine as well. </p>

<p>Your suggestion doesn't have to fit in all those criteria, but it has to include number one. Saying at least three out of six?</p>

<p>Could anybody give me any suggestions of schools that fits my criteria?</p>

<p>THANKS FOR STOPPING BY!!</p>

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<p>Lol… You’re not going to find a large school without a party scene. You don’t have to party, but you can’t stipulate that it can’t exist at your college. It does everywhere except super religious schools like BYU. </p>

<p>Honestly, ABET accredited engineering schools all teach the same thing. What’s your state flagship? That sounds like a good option. </p>

<p>What can your family afford?</p>

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<p><a href=“5”>I</a>No drinking scenes, not too much party scenes. *</p>

<p>Don’t know of any schools besides bible schools that would fit that bill. Even the MIT students are quite the partiers.</p>

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<p>This post oozes with Cornell, except for number 5.</p>

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<p>Well, I didn’t say absolutely no party. I meant relatively less parties. I’m from Michigan. And my family, well, let me put it this way, scholarship for me is an absolute necessity.</p>

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<p>okay scratch 5</p>

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<p>Why not University of Michigan? Sure there are ~25k undergrads, but it’d be easy to find your niche and make the school smaller.</p>

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<p>I’d kill to live in Michigan. OOS tuition is 37k, so definitely consider it a blessing you get in state tuition for UMich, it’s one of the public Ivies.</p>

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<p>I really wanna go somewhere out of state. I like Michigan, but I want to explore some other states.</p>

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<p><a href=“1”>quote</a>I want to go to a school that has a strong engineering program, along with a vast student body majoring in other majors, say medicine, or history, or law, or linguistics, etc. Simply put, I want to have friends on campus with different academic interest, along with different social interest.

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Consider Lafayette College in Easton, PA. At 2400 undergrads it is smaller than your ideal. It is an LAC, but about 25% major in engineering. LC has ABET programs in Chemical, Civil & Environmental, Electrical & Computer, and Mechanical Engineering. The College offers the Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) degree in 34 fields, including engineering, and the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in nine areas of science and four fields of engineering. </p>

<p><a href=“2”>quote</a>Also, I don’t want to go to an easy-go-happy school. Let’s face it, appropriate amount of stresses drives you to work hard and become successful. I want a school that would challenge me so I am better prepared for grad school and my future career.

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Lafayette has a challenging curriculum, especially in engineering.</p>

<p><a href=“3”>quote</a>Population can be ranged anywhere from 5000 to 15,000.

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LC is smaller than your preferred size at 2400.</p>

<p><a href=“4”>quote</a>Balanced male to female ratio, give or take one or two percent.

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At 53% (M) 47% (W) not too unbalanced a ratio for a strong engineering school. A function of being an LAC.</p>

<p><a href=“5”>quote</a>No drinking scenes, not too much party scenes.

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Not a big party scene. Fraternities have been de-emphasized in recent years.</p>

<p><a href=“6”>quote</a>Decent campus settings, preferably large urban area, but suburbs and small towns are fine as well.

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Very beautiful campus at the edge of a small city. A short walk (20 min.) from downtown on top of residential ‘college hill’, where many of the professors live.
<a href=“http://www.lafayette.edu/about/lafayette-at-a-glance/[/url]”>http://www.lafayette.edu/about/lafayette-at-a-glance/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Depending on your statistics and qualifications…</p>

<p>Cornell, Duke, Penn, Columbia, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and Stanford</p>

<p>All of these schools fit your size and difficulty criteria. Berkeley and Michigan are too big, Dartmouth doesn’t really offer a traditional engineering curriculum, Hopkins as well as Rice don’t really have students with a “variety of interests”, and I suspect that Brown won’t be challenging enough for you.</p>

<p>I think you should apply Cornell ED in all honesty.</p>

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<p>Sorry, but could the OP please explain to me what’s so interesting about his question?</p>

<p>Interesting to the OP, I’m sure . . . but what is there that I’d find interesting about a prospective engineering student who can’t even be bothered to do the most basic research (# of students, for example) about the various engineering schools that are out there?</p>

<p>It would take you less than 5 minutes to enter your parameters into the Princeton Review search engine . . . . good luck with your career as an engineer!</p>

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<p>Hi awxf218! I noticed that you posted on another thread that your ACT score is a 25. It’s fine to have reaches, but I would really recommend that you looking at schools where you have a better chance with that score. I hope I’m not offending you, I just saw so many kids from my school get absolutely crushed from aiming too high with safeties they didn’t like and a lack of match schools.</p>

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<p>Mich is a fantastic choice, even though it’s bigger than you’d like. Other schools that come to mind are Northwestern, Cornell, Stanford, JHU, and Duke. Engineering programs are often hard, so I didn’t account for that in my list. I completely disregarded the no party scene factor as well.</p>

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<p>Could you give us some stats, like SAT, GPA, etc.?</p>

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<p>^ According to his other threads he got a 25 ACT. If this is true, never mind my previous post.</p>

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<p>haha I definitely did a ton of research. I just want to hear what other people think from a different prospective. Search engines spit out schools like Harvey Mudd, which I don’t like.
And as for the title, it’s sorta an attention getter. </p>

<p>Thanks for your opinion though. But I’m sorry you didn’t help much.</p>

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<p>Indeed my ACT is a 25, but in all honesty I was feeling sick that day and did not perform well. I’m retaking it again and I’m sure I’ll get a 30+.</p>

<p>GPA 4.1 unweighted
Junior 4APs (Chem, physics b, calc ab, us history), predicting 4+.
Senior 4APs(Eng Lit, Physics C, Calc BC, US gov)</p>

<p>ECs
Varsity Rowing
President of Recycling Club
NHS president
Science Olympiad
Peer mediation
Founder and President of Rocketry Club (compete nationally)
Multi-lingual
Performed over hundreds of hours of service at local food distribution center
Link crew leader
work part time at a bank as a teller</p>

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<p>I don’t think you should assume that you’ll be able to improve your score from 25 to ~33 (what is generally needed for unhooked applicants at the schools that have been mentioned) just because you were sick. It’s great if you can improve that much, but as of right now you have a 25 and I think you need to make a college list according to that, not by betting on a 30+. Sorry if that’s harsh, it’s just SO important to be realistic throughout this process if you want to be happy with your results.</p>

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<p>I do have a list, just in case:</p>

<p>Lafayette
Trinity Hartford
Syracuse
Michigan State
UMich</p>

<p>you’re welcome to add or subtract schools from that list</p>