<p>Georgia Tech is ranked #2 for Aero and #6 for Mech Engineering. And it has varsity lacrosse.
For a small private, Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach Fl is the top aero engineering school- it has club lacrosse.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I forgot about Florida Institute of Technology! (Hitting myself on the forehead)</p>
<p>Your bro's scores would fall within the range of both Embry-Riddle and Fl Tech.</p>
<p>I'll second Garland's vote for Stevens. It's a beautiful campus, IMHO. Urban, lots of brownstones, view of NYC skyline. Hoboken has great nightlife & is a quick PATH train ride from Manhattan. Tons of kids from my h.s attended in the late 70s and are all wildly successful.</p>
<p>If his grades & stats were higher, I'd suggest Notre Dame. They have an amazing intramural system for football & lacrosse that he could take part in.</p>
<p>To expand on my above post, I'll describe two different types of kids I know who thrived at their respective schools. My S's best friend in HS was a bright under achiever--did well in computer and math classes, less well in others. Don't know his SATs, but I'd guess high 1100s--skewed very much to the math side. Very socially shy. Has blossomed at RIT, doing very well, great group of friends, majoring in comp sci and minoring in music, looking forward to his Co-ops this year.</p>
<p>Val from my D's class--incredibly hard worker, 1200s SAT--baseball player but not in college. Became val despite being on home instruction for long periods because of very serious chronic disease (colitis). Thrived at Stevens, where they were very accomodating of issues related to his illness, graduated very high, has extremely lucrative computer job in NYC.</p>
<p>Both schools seemed to really take care of their students.</p>
<p>University of Notre Dame--check it out!</p>
<p>ND Al, Mollie's brother doesn't fit the ND profile:</p>
<p>mid 50% ranges:
1340 - 1470 on the SAT I (including Critical Reading and Math sections; excluding Writing section) -- average SAT is over 1400.
31 - 33 on the ACT
1% - 6% rank in class</p>
<p>He's taking "mostly" college prep classes, & ND lets all applicants know that the appliant pool is highly competitive. (Of course you know that already!)</p>
<p>I agree with Countingdown - Do NOT consider Ga Tech if you are looking for a "supportive" atmosphere. Although it is very highly ranked in Aerospace, it is definitely a school that still believes in the "giving a chance during the admission process and culling during the freshmen experience". </p>
<p>It is the antithesis of MIT with it's "Pass/No Record" philosophy for first semester freshman. Ga Tech believes in using the freshman classes for "weeding out" those that "don't belong".</p>
<p>He may or may not fit the applicant pool--but, I know that it is a very supportive school--admissions are an interesting affair, you never know what might happen!</p>
<p>Here is another - not Ga Tech! It is a great school, but not for the faint of heart and not at all nurturing.
For a safety, he might look into the Univ of Alabama in Huntsville, it has some interesting opportunities with NASA, UAH is more a computer science place, but they do have engineering, too. No lacrosse, I'm sure.</p>
<p>Have him take a look at Montana State, it's a 10k student state school with a smaller feel. There is a nice, respected engineering dept, active marching band, and club lacrosse.</p>
<p>My impression is that since lacrosse is a spring sport, if the boy has not yet received recruiting interest by this time, it is probably not going to happen--even at DIII. of course, he could still play club lacrosse or try to walk on, with his best chance of success being at a low level program. But I wouldn't count on getting sports-related help in the admissions process.</p>
<p>What about 3-2 programs like Holy Cross?</p>
<p>Following up on the lax thougts ... your brother may want to check out ... <a href="http://www.laxpower.com%5B/url%5D">www.laxpower.com</a>. This site will show which schools have varisty programs in lacrosse (few DI and DII ... lots in DIII) and also which schools have club teams. If your brother wants to play varsity lacrosse and study engineering as an undergrad the list of possible schools will be pretty short. If he's willing to play club Lax it opens up virtually any engineering school into the mix.</p>
<p>RPI (I'd bet he'd like hockey!)
And his GPA is not bad for a guy.</p>
<p>I don't think RPI (average SAT score well over 1300) is a realistic possibility.</p>
<p>According to the RPI Common Data Set (<a href="http://www.rpi.edu/about/cds/CDS2006_2007.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.rpi.edu/about/cds/CDS2006_2007.pdf</a>)
68% of its successful applicants have ACT scores in the range of 24-29 (average score is 25) and 16% are below that. It might be a reach, but he's not out of range.</p>