<p>Hey! Rochester, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland are cities! I am sensing some disrepect! 
U Rochester, Pitt, and Case.
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<p>Consider WPI. Good school. Yes, it is primarily an engineering school, but has itâs own program areas outside of engineering as well as the ability to take classes at the other area schools. Worcester is an OK city, not great but not bad. It is a small city so that entertainment and sports tickets are easier to come by and cheaper although, for instance, it isnât major league baseball but a minor league team. Can be a fun city. Small student population and small campus, but very pretty.</p>
<p>Case to me is a safety for this student, he is way above average for test scores and gpa and with admission rate about 70%, it is pretty safe to me. Case problem is yield, a lot of decent students use them as safety but end up not attending. OTH JHU, like for most people, is obviously a reach.</p>
<p>More non-coastal urban engineering schools that may be reachy or borderlined match but worth a look: Vanderbilt, WashU, and Rice.</p>
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<p>I define reach as maybe less than a 40% chance, and a match as between 40-90% chance. JHU takes 15% of itâs class from the second decile, probably the second decile of competitive schools. Heâs accelerated in math, taking MVCalc + 6 APs, has good test scores (might as well believe that he will get 2200+, OP said use those assumptions), good ECS, not premed, not biomedical engineering, has 5s in both CalcBC and English. Clearly he works JHU hard. I think JHU is maybe a 40% chance of success. I still think Case is a safety. They admit 70% of their applicants. They will certainly admit this one.</p>
<p>I also donât think Case is too specialized. Majors from Collegeboard: </p>
<pre><code>* Engineering: 24%
- Social Sciences: 12%
- Biology: 11%
- Health Professions: 10%
- Business/Marketing: 8%
- Psychology: 8%
- Physical Sciences: 6%
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<p>UCSC: [url=<a href=âhttp://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/article?ID=1870]UCSCâ>http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/article?ID=1870]UCSC</a> Computer Engineering Top in Nation for Citation Impact | Jack Baskin School of Engineering | UC Santa Cruz<a href=âPlus%20the%20surfingâ>/url</a></p>
<p>So, the kid just jump the hoops to become a Phd Candidate in UCSCâŠand the surfing. :)</p>
<p>"How ya liking HMC, Suin? How easy is cross-registration to language classes at Scripps for the Opâs friendâs kid? Pomona is âpickyâ and limiting in the number of classes you can take there IIRC from several years ago, but the rest of cross-registration seemed easy to my D when she was considering Scripps (she was a science geek) and came for a scholarship week-end.</p>
<p>And chill a little. The observation was probably based on acceptance/admit rates and HMC clearly has a self-selecting population compared to Pomona. And, anyway, my D seemed to be taken with some latin phrase she saw on T-shirts on campus at HMC and Scripps. What was it again? Puck Fomona? I havenât been able to find a translation."</p>
<p>I recently graduated and had as a good a time as you can manage at a tough science and math school. The core is changing so Iâm not completely sure, but you should be able to take at least 6 off-campus hums and any others you can fit into your major/humanities concentration. There are no restrictions on what those off-campus classes can be. Pomona has a broader range of courses they offer and HM has fewer hums so the restrictions are very different.</p>
<p>I wasnât particularly perturbed, I just donât want false information based on incomplete or misinterpreted data being passed along. Admit rates merely indicate the size of the application pool compared to the class size, which mostly indicates how popular a school is and naturally a school with limited majors, particularly science majors, is going to have fewer applicants. Citing it as a selectivity indicator is meaningless. I havenât seen that shirt before.</p>
<p>Hey guys. No disrespect. Itâs just that the OP said one of the coasts. Thatâs why I restricted my suggestions to that.</p>
<p>More precisely OP said âhis ideal school would beâ. And how come coastal factor is somehow the inflexible factor while city or engineering or lively music community is optional like in many of your suggestions? It all depends what the coast means in this context, is it actual geographical location next to the coast or is it more of a desirable cultural setting. If it is former, I think in some sense Tufts is really no more coastal than WashU. While it is true Tufts is an East Coast school, students really do not have access to any beach activities while attending the school.</p>
<p>I think Lafayette, which many of the posters have mentioned, would be ideal. Itâs a LAC thatâs all about integrating engineering w/liberal arts, the Engineers without Borders is one of the most active clubs on campus (going mostly to Honduras), is in an increasingly artsy small city and only and hour from both NYC and Philly. And if he likes car racing, all the Andrettis live about 7 miles away! Swarthmore is similar, but Lafayette has 4 discipline specific BS programs, and a BA in Engineering Studies available, whereas Swarthmore has just a general BS Engineering degree. The engineering students are very involved all over campus, as they make up about 25% of the students.</p>
<p>^As part of his âWhy Chicagoâ essay, my son said that being on Lake Michigan was practically âon a coastâ one of his original stipulations.</p>
<p>Not sure if it is still available but a relative did a 3/2 joint program in engineering between UCSC and Berkeley.</p>
<p>"While it is true Tufts is an East Coast school, students really do not have access to any beach activities while attending the school. "</p>
<p>??? There are beaches within 1/2 hour of Tufts, and Cape Cod is within 1.5 hours, a trivial weekend trip while attending the school !!</p>
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<p>I went to Tufts and never did go to the beach during the school year. Even in May, the water is way too cold to swim in. My point is what does one really mean when talking about school on the coast. I donât think being within 1/2 hour of a beach really should be the deciding factor here.</p>
<p>In fact, when my son & I visited Tufts this summer, it was as a day trip from where we were vacationing in Cape Cod.</p>
<p>OK, Tufts is a beach going kind of school. Happy?</p>
<p>I see a lot of people suggesting engineering 3/2 programs. I like the idea of getting more humanities into engineering programs (especially for my IB son), but we never looked at them seriously. </p>
<p>It was not just the cost of an extra year that deterred us. It just seemed that a student would not want to switch schools (unless the next one was in same time) after 3years. Itâs a bit like not wanting to transfer a kid for senior year of high school. Friendships are important.</p>
<p>Too me, being on one of the coast is not about the beach. Itâs about (an admittedly stereotyped) view that the east and west coasts are more cosmopolitan than the middle of our country.</p>
<p>Reed has a 3/2 for computer science with the University of Washington â S1 asked about it when he visited, and the profs said almost noone actually does it. After three years, the kids are fully invested in the school they already attend and donât want to leave. Pomona has a 3/2 with Caltech also.</p>
<p>^ I think the investment in the school is why I tend to dismiss 3/2 programs. It would take a very driven individual to drop friends from the last three years to continue on âthe planâ.</p>