<p>I'm not really familiar with the transfer process, so I was hoping for any help as to whether applying was worth the time/money. I'm looking for schools with a stronger Engineering program but would hopefully be very generous with financial aid/scholarships/cheaper tuition (suggestions welcome!). I was accepted to Carnegie Mellon and RPI out of high school but was unable to attend due to the high costs. I also wasn't incredibly fond of the environment at Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>I am happy with Stony Brook and would be okay with staying as well; I am mostly looking for a stronger Engineering program/opportunities and possibly more academic student (nerdy?) body. </p>
<p>Stats:
Freshmen at SUNY Stony Brook, currently 3.65 GPA (A in Writing, A in Electrical Engineering, A- in Multivariable Calculus, B in Honors Physics I, S in Intro to Stony Brook Class)
I have 30 Credits from HS AP's and took 16 credits this term
Electrical Engineering Major
Female
Admittedly, I haven't been extremely involved in any extracurriculars, but I am/will be a part of IEEE, Robotics, and the newspaper
I am also the director of Media of the Computing Society and do freelance webdesign.</p>
<p>H.S. Stats:
2160 SAT (750M, 720R, 690W) -->Is this worth retaking?
91.3 GPA
President of FIRST Robotics and freelance webdesign</p>
<p>Some of the schools I was looking at include:
* Caltech
* Cornell Engineering
* UPenn Engineering
* MIT (I figure no chance, so probably strike this)
* Cooper Union
* USC or Rice</p>
<p>Comments on chances at any of these schools, strength of the electrical engineering program, whether I should wait a year, and transfer financial aid would be much appreciated!</p>
<p>Thanks for any help and I would be glad to elaborate on anything as needed.</p>
<p>I say knock caltech and mit and keep cornell as your reach. Its a shame you didn’t like CMU, their engineering is really up there too. Keep the rest on your list and add rpi if you’d be willing to go there now. You’re a girl interested in engineering so that’s cool. Are you asian?</p>
<p>One more question, did you take any SAT IIs?</p>
<p>I’m half asian (so not very helpful I suppose)</p>
<p>I did take SAT II’s, I <em>believe</em> the scores were</p>
<p>710 World History
700 Bio M
780 Math II
760 Physics (retake)</p>
<p>The larger reason I didn’t attend CMU/RPI was really financial aid…not being crazy about either school was somewhat secondary</p>
<p>Finaid for transfers is pretty limited but if you get into cornell, they’re pretty generous. PM me if you have any questions about the process, I transferred from stony to cornell</p>
<p>Thanks for your help and I will definitely contact you if I need further information! Do you have any comments about the transition from Stony Brook to Cornell?</p>
<p>If anyone has any comments about the other schools that would be really helpful as well!</p>
<p>any more comments?</p>
<p>cornell’s a lot better haha that’s pretty much all i have to say. to be fair, i never wanted to be at stony in the first place, but they’re completely different places. i was also a commuter, so i don’t know if you live on campus or not, but that makes a huge difference as well. </p>
<p>also, processing the forms takes forever at stony, so have things ready to be filled out early because you’ll need 2 weeks at each office (you need to go to your advisor, registrar, and academic affairs).</p>
<p>I currently go the the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana and we have a highly ranked CEE department. It also isn’t too expensive…although if you’re out of state it might be.
You should still check it out though.</p>
<p>After careful thought, I think I will just apply to UPenn, Cornell, Cooper Union, and either Rice or USC (can anyone comment on the generosity of financial aid of either of these schools)? Chances (especially at UPenn and Cornell)?</p>
<p>Are there any other good engineering schools with generous financial aid?</p>