<p>Please suggest universities similar to Caltech. By this i mean private school, and very elite in science and engineering field. Also, class size cannot be too big, to get interaction with professors.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd College.</p>
<p>Cooper Union (Engineering Division).</p>
<p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</p>
<p>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.</p>
<p>Rochester Institute of Technology.</p>
<p>Worcester Polytechnic Institute.</p>
<p>Stevens Institute of Technology.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if I spelled the names right or if they're what you're looking for, but you can visit their website and learn more about them. :D</p>
<p>How about lehigh, swarthmore, tufts, vanderbilt.... are they similar to caltech??</p>
<p>No.
Not at all.</p>
<p>I was looking for schools that fit under that description, and I applied to (in order of decreasing personal preference):</p>
<p>Caltech
MIT
Princeton
Stanford
Harvey Mudd
U Chicago
Northwestern
Colorado School of Mines (Colorado Resident)
University of Colorado (Colorado Resident)</p>
<p>Specifically, I would give Harvey Mudd serious consideration - it's very underrated but the education/difficulty/opportunities are incredible. </p>
<p>From my personal bias, though, there's no reason to look beyond Caltech. :-)</p>
<p>When you applied to universities, which one did you get accepted and rejected? I would assume that if you were accepted to caltech you would have been accepted to all of ure list.. lol</p>
<p>why not berkeley? Too big in size?</p>
<p>Too big, and since the OP asked for privates...</p>
<p>I think Harvey Mudd might overall be the closest but the profs are less likely to be the World Famous Big Shots. This can be good or bad depending on your perspective -- i.e. they'll care about teaching more but there's less of the rub-shoulders-with-the-Giants feel. And there isn't the grad-undergrad overlap in the advanced courses.</p>
<p>Actually in terms of small size, academic intensity, coupled with lots of big name research profs, U of Chicago is the closest to Tech of all universities, but isn't biased towards the sci/eng only side and obviously puts a higher premium on econ and the social sciences. My dream university would be a more test focused, high minimum SAT version of U of C with a fairly inflexible core that everyone has to take.</p>
<p>I'd also say that Swarthmore is probably the LAC -non science - equivalent of Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>Olin and Cooper are also similar but they're much narrower as they're almost exclusively focused on engineering. </p>
<p>Almost any school with many more than 1000 students in the frosh class is going to be dissimilar to Caltech because of size and inability to impose a standard core curriculum. In that sense I think that MIT splits the difference between Caltech and Stanford, leaning more to the Tech side.</p>
<p>How about Carnegie Mellon?</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon has a well known computer science... I dont know about its engineering though, in particular electrical and mechanical engineering. And how is physics at CMU, since I might change to Physics later on if i dont like engineering</p>
<p>Um.. ECE is a top 5 just like CS. The two are usually what CMU is known for and they compete regularly with MIT and Stanford for applicants. ECE is probably just as well known as CS and the two intermingle (when someone says computers they can be referring to either major).</p>
<p>Physics is also highly regarded as a major; you can check the career center for stats.</p>
<p>My stats:</p>
<p>sat 1: math 780 verbal 460 writing 580
sat 2: math 2c 800 physics 760 chem 710
toefl computer based 267 out of 300</p>
<p>doing IB, international student, british curriculum school, top few hundreds mathematicians in the UK, invited to BMO1</p>
<p>Do u think i have any chance at carnegie mellon? (dont need scholarship)</p>
<p>GPA? I think they may overlook your verbal/writing score in this case because you are an international.</p>
<p>no gpa. my school follows the british curriculum</p>
<p>i am expecting to get 38- 39 points for IB, out of 45 points. I dont know how this would convert to GPA</p>
<p>I think you have a pretty good chance. Can you possibly raise that verbal/writing though?</p>
<p>I am graduating this year.</p>
<p>I got accepted at u of florida, clarkson
rejected at MIT
yet to hear from caltech, harvey mudd, umich, ut-austin</p>
<p>If i do not get into caltech or harveymudd, i will go in a college then try to transfer out to a college that i want (possibly carnegie mellon or UIUC)</p>
<p>I forgot to apply to CMU and UIUC</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I thought Umich gave out decisions already? Hmm you must've applied late.</p>
<p>It does? By mail? And yes i did apply late. I applied a week before the deadline for umich</p>
<p>Anonamous, if you don't get into Caltech, go to Michigan and stay there, unless you can transfer into MIT or Stanford.</p>