My son is interested in biomedical engineering from a reputed engineering school which will then lead to med school or a business/finance focus leveraging his engineering analytical credentials and rigor. While cost is not a primary concern getting him on a solid technical footing with opportunities to branch off into a solid post undergraduate career afterwards is. He is out of state for all schools.
His current choices are:
Accepted to Biomedical Engineering at Vtech. No scholarship
Accepted to Uconn with leadership merit school = free tuition. Unfortunately didn’t get into engineering but has a chance to transfer into engineering if his grades are good (which they have to be for engineering regardless of where he goes).
Accepted from waitlist into Wisconsin Biomed (no schol).
Can you suggest your 1 and 2 options and why? Thank you!!!
What’s your budget? Can you afford VT or UW? If not, UConn is the easy choice.
If money is no object, I’d pick UW out of the three if your son was direct admit into engineering.
I’d also dig deeper about the transfer process to engineering at UConn. At many schools it is very difficult to get into the classes needed freshman year to be eligible to transfer to engineering. Ask the question specifically to the school to see how many students successfully transfer.
Looks to me like UW and VT are pretty similar in their programs - so I would say which is best budget wise and how he likes the feel of each campus. Primary thing to be concerned about is good GPA for getting into law school - where does he feel he will thrive the most.
Location, finances, vibe, academics, activities, sports and facilities. Whichever draws you towards them. Rate 1 to 5 in each category and total them up.