<p>Hi, im a junior in high school and I am having some trouble finding safety schools that are appealing to me. Any help would be appreciated. I'm looking for a school not too far from where I live (nj) but not too close either. So somewhere on the east coast basically. </p>
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GPA uw 3.7 w 4.3
SAT at the moment I have an 1870 (630 math 610 cr 620 English) something like that and I just took the SATs again. Exptexting a 2000 plus based on practice tests.
ACT 28 will take 2 more times.
For a more complete list check out one of my other posts
I want to be an electrical or mechanical engineer and for reference I don't like NJIT and Rutgers is not appealing to me cause its so big. Otherwise I don't mind if its urban or more rural and I would like the school to have a good co op program. Thanks </p>
<p>What can your family afford? Affordability is an important part of naming a safety.</p>
<p>the amount your family will pay will largely determine where you should apply. Safeties usually do NOT give much aid other than merit for high stats. many matches dont give great aid either.</p>
<p>If you don’t like Rutgers or NJIT, then you can also look at Stony Brook (SUNY) or Binghamton.
The OOS cost for both is comparable to Instate cost for Rutgers or NJIT.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I’d count a $9K difference (higher at SUNYs) as comparable.</p>
<p>Hmmm well I’m not really sure. Could you possibly list out some good safety’s at various prices and I’ll sort through them with my parents? Thanks. And please, I prefer schools with co op cause I find it to be an awesome program. </p>
<p>Those are too far away. </p>
<p>You could probably get into University of pittsburgh which has great engineering. Drexel would probably give merit aid. Virginia Tech and University of Delaware have nice engineering and offer merit aid. </p>
<p>^^^Safety schools have to be absolutely affordable, places you would absolutely go, and places you would almost certainly be admitted to. You shouldn’t have to wait on merit to know you can go there. Merit at the schools in @pontinator’s response would not be automatics for major aid for the OP. Pitt might offer 5-10K but class rank and SAT M+CR are very important there. Delaware hasn’t much aid for OOS except for the tiny 1%. Drexel is not known for its large aid–and not with the current scores. VT, again, you’re OOS. So I couldn’t rec any of these as safeties unless your family is prepared to pay 32-50K per year.</p>
<p>In terms of good COOP, Northeastern and Drexel are probably the best. You dont have a great chance at Northeastern with current states and Drexel may not give great aid according to Jkeil911. University of Pittsburgh has great engineering though could be expensive as OOS. Maybe look at SUNY Buffalo too though not known for coop. Moral of post: Coop is pretty desirable so safeties may not have that feature. </p>
<p>Stevens, UCincinnati, and RIT all have excellent co-ops and should be accessible with your stats. Probably merit if you can raise your ACT to 29 or 30, which is very doable.
I confirm that Drexel has lousy financial aid.</p>
<p>^I also agree re: Drexel’s lousy financial aid. I ran the NPC and Drexel had the highest net price for our family (>$30,000) of any of the dozens of schools for which I’ve run NPCs (none were OOS publics). And we’re PA residents eligible for full Pell and state grants.</p>
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<p>Lots of schools do have co-op programs for engineering majors, although most do not make them mandatory or highly integrated into the curriculum like Drexel, Northeastern, Cincinnati, etc…</p>
<p>^^^^ yeah sorry @ucbalumnus i should have specified that. I agree that if you want to do a coop, many schools can set you up but Drexel, NEU, Cincy all have premier programs that all students take part in. </p>
<p>*** most students take part in</p>