<p>I'm looking to major in Chemical Engineering, and I'm looking for a high tier school, but I do prefer smaller schools. I loathe those 50k people schools. </p>
<p>At the moment, I think I'm a good fit for Rose-Hulman, and Caltech would be a dream school.
I'm also applying to stuff like Princeton and Stanford, but I'm looking for a few of the smaller schools as backups. Anything like Rose-Hulman would be great, but I haven't been able to find any. </p>
<p>My ACT Composite is 32, and I haven't taken SAT I because I've taken Subject tests over them. I have a 3.714 unweighted, 4.514 weighted GPA, and I've taken the most challenging courses I can, though I kind of slacked off in freshman and sophomore year, which is why I have such a low GPA. Rank 18 of 224. And my ECs aren't amazing...like 3 years of chess club, 3 years of key club (webmaster for this year), 4 years of board game club, science bowl just this year, phi alpha theta last year. </p>
<p>It'd be nice if the financial aid is great too, but not a necessity. </p>
<p>Also, if anyone knows of any good safety schools for ChemE, I'd like to hear them, since I just realized I have waaaay too many of the most selective schools, and it seems that I wouldn't do too well, I think. </p>
<p>Thanks :D Feel free to ask me anything I'm missing.</p>
<p>Yes, I think NYU-Poly is a great option because I go there!
I’m a chemical and biological engineering major and I absolutely love it. Plus I got a scholarship for 20,000. Win win !</p>
<p>^ who are you?? why so many polythinkers teleporting to College Confidential all of a sudden? this is awesome, but somehow like an out-of-body experience to me.</p>
<p>It’s true: NYU-Poly has about 1200 undergrads. And weirdly stellar financial aid for a private university. Did you take the SAT by any chance? What was your ACT math score? You could get an incredible financial aid package.</p>
<p>Rose-Hulman is similar, but gives bad-ish financial aid to out-of-state students. I know this because it’s what stopped me from applying. :(</p>
<p>I second Virginia Tech. Wish I applied there.</p>
<p>I see. Virginia Tech seems like a good option now.
I’ll look up NYU-Poly. From the pictures, it looks like a huge shopping complex xD
Never heard of Delaware o.o I’ll check up on that too. </p>
<p>I’ll update my initial post with this.
Unfortunately, no, I haven’t taken SATs, and don’t plan on it. As far as I can tell, most colleges take ACT or SAT. Am I incorrect in thinking this?</p>
<p>I see. Virginia Tech seems like a good option now.
I’ll look up NYU-Poly. From the pictures, it looks like a huge shopping complex xD
Never heard of Delaware o.o I’ll check up on that too. </p>
<p>I’ll update my initial post with this.
Unfortunately, no, I haven’t taken SATs, and don’t plan on it. As far as I can tell, most colleges take ACT or SAT. Am I incorrect in thinking this?</p>
<p>I see. Virginia Tech seems like a good option now.
I’ll look up NYU-Poly. From the pictures, it looks like a huge shopping complex xD
Never heard of Delaware o.o I’ll check up on that too. </p>
<p>I’ll update my initial post with this.
Unfortunately, no, I haven’t taken SATs, and don’t plan on it. As far as I can tell, most colleges take ACT or SAT. Am I incorrect in thinking this?</p>
<p>No, you’re right. WOW @ your math score. Dude, you’d get into NYU-Poly honors for sure…i.e. full-tuition scholarship. Just fyi.</p>
<p>haha nyu-poly is in the metrotech center, which is kinda like the most upper-class part of brooklyn. it’s also by the fulton street mall. i took pics of the general metrotech center which isn’t that large, but nyu-poly kinda…hugs it? lmao</p>
<p>Most of the best Chem E departments are at larger schools.(UMinn, UWisconsin, U Illinois, Umich) What do you really know about large schools? Most people find them lively and exciting.</p>
<p>I believe Rice University in Houston, Texas is a great match for you. We are a top 20, small university (about 3300 undergrads). The ChemE program is also highly regarded, especially since Houston is the energy capital of the U.S. Therefore, companies like Shell and Chevron have donated a lot of money to the ChemE program at Rice.</p>
<p>barrons, honestly, I don’t know. I have neither the funds nor the time (at least until this hectic month is over) to visit college campuses. My opinions are just what I deduce from the size and reputation of the schools, along with some college review sites. However, I’m not a very outgoing person, and I prefer having just a small group of friends to hang out with. And I rarely go to any parties, nor any raves. I’m not very athletic, though I’ll play a game or two when someone asks me to. I’m like a stereotypical Asian xD
What do you think?</p>
<p>slik nik, ah…yes. I remember looking into Rice. I was quite interested in it, but I was had second thoughts because I wasn’t sure of the strength of the ChemE program there. I thought it was for some liberal arts stuff and maybe architecture from the gossip I’ve heard about it. I think I’ll definitely apply for it now, after looking into it more.</p>
<p>Rowan University in NJ has a very highly ranked ChemE dept. It is in a suburban location and OOS tuition is about $15K. It does offer merit scholarships.</p>
<p>Ga Tech is relative small Tech school, only 12,000 undergraduate. It ranked top ten in undergraduate Chemical engineering. Here are top ten undergraduate ChemE according to USNews. Virginia Tech is much larger school in comparison. It has over 24,000 undergraduate students.</p>
<p>Other smaller engineering programs including Vanderbilt, John Hopkins, Cornell, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon, RPI and WPI.</p>
<p>1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
2 University of California–Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
3 University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
4 University of Wisconsin–Madison
Madison, WI
5 Stanford University
Stanford, CA
6 University of Texas–Austin
Austin, TX
7 California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
9 Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
10 University of Delaware
Newark, DE</p>
<p>For crying out loud, stop introducing Rice into every single CC thread.</p>
<p>It’s a decent school (one to which my cousin is applying), but let’s be serious: it’s mostly for kids who cannot get into the Ivy League.</p>
<p>Despite discounted tuitions and merit scholarships, Rice still loses two-thirds of their admits to (usually) more prestigious schools. Given that Rice is planning to expand enrollment, the school is going to be even less selective than it is already. That’s a shame because the main characteristic (an LAC-like learning environment) which distinguishes Rice from its peers such as Duke, Northwestern and Vanderbilt will cease to exist.</p>
<p>I understand you have (or did have) major buyer’s remorse and are trying to seek validation in some way, but give it a rest already. You’re not doing Rice any favors by begging for applicants. </p>
<p>To the OP: if you’re considering small-ish schools, give Harvey Mudd a look. Unless you’ve already done extensive research and/or have won national (or at least regional) science competitions (e.g. Intel), Caltech is probably going to be a big reach. Good luck!</p>
<p>O.o I had no idea Rowan was ranked. So many colleges/universities I’ve never heard of >.<</p>
<p>Eh…I don’t know if I’d consider 12k undergrads a small school…Georgia Tech was originally an option, but I heard Atlanta isn’t the best place for a college student either.
John Hopkins looks like an interesting option. I’m already going to apply to Rensselaer. Carnegie Mellon is being considered as a safety/mid range school as of now. As for that list, many are large colleges. University of Texas, Austin is an interesting one. I did not know they had a strong ChemE program. I think I’ll apply for that.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd looked great for me, except that it doesn’t have ChemE
Yeah, I’m basically just a little above average student, but nothing spectacular…</p>
<p>UT-Austin is a good choice, especially considering the cost. I don’t see any particular reason why Atlanta “isn’t the best place for a college student”. Atlanta is a fairly large city and has more to do than most places. GT is in the Midtown neighborhood, one of the more walkable places in Atlanta and you can walk to downtown from there also. So you don’t have to have a car even though as a whole, the city is fairly spread out.</p>
<p>Funnywille, what do you think ChemE is? Why must you walk away from your undergrad with a degree in ChemE specifically if you could get just as good a ChemE education and an even better overall engineering/science/math education?</p>
<p>I think your assumption that one cannot get a kick-ass ChemE education from HMC’s General Engineering curriculum is a poor one. I’d like to know what are driving these decisions…</p>
<p>And no, you cannot say HMC and UT-Austin in the same breath… or quite frankly any other school WITH EXCEPTION TO: Olin, Caltech, MIT, Purdue, Stanford, GTech, UC Berkeley for undergrad Eng.</p>
<p>Where did you get such a silly idea? You do realize that only 3 schools in the country have more NAE members on faculty than UT-Austin? I would say that makes UT a <em>slightly</em> good engineering school.</p>
