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@Hrusha, if your friends were admitted to MIT and Gtech and denied by WPI, it’s probably because WPI found them to be over qualified. ( affects yield)
Having said that, I agree that WPI has a very rigorous curriculum, but with OP’s stats, the chances of admission are high. I agree that campus doesn’t feel like an urban campus

@Mastadon tufts is a very hard school to get into and like Dartmouth, Princeton, and other ivies, the curriculum is not pure engineering. Tufts requires you to take classes for the first 2 years at CAS, before starting engineering classes as a junior. I think it depends on if OP wants a pure hands-on engineering curriculum or an engineering degree with a focus on a lot of liberal arts curriculum.

The campus id definitely urban.

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@Wisdom2share Yield protection alone is a reason WPI can’t be a safety. It’s acceptance rate is below 50% and it’s too risky.

And I’d describe Fifts as suburban, not urban.

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If you’re looking for a small/midsize school in a rural/suburban location you really should consider Missouri S&T-Rolla.

While it isn’t necessarily a name known by most it really is a nationally recognized school for engineering.

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@Wisdom2share You’re information about tufts is incorrect. I’m a current engineering student and have been taking hands on engineering courses since my first semester at the school.

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@Bluetea2 http://engineering.tufts.edu/docs/degrees/BSBME_DegreeSheet2020.pdf
says you are taking a 2 credit intro to engineering class in fall and a total of 12 courses in engineering for a degree almost 9 courses in humanities and sciences. which to me is heavier than desirable amount of electives and general studies . Here is a comparative link to WPI which requires projects to graduate and gives the true hands on experience.
http://engineering.tufts.edu/docs/degrees/BSBME_DegreeSheet2020.pdf

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@Wisdom2share I don’t disagree that Tufts has a strong liberal arts component (like the service academies) but your link shows you were wrong here:

I take no stance on hands-on vs. theoretical engineering since I have no experience there.

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OP was interested in mechanical engineering. Here is the degree sheet for Tufts mechanical engineering:
http://engineering.tufts.edu/docs/degrees/BSME_DegreeSheet2020.pdf
This shows the student taking 7 engineering courses across the first four semesters:
1: EN 1 (?)
2: ES 2 (computing)
3: ES 3 (electrical science), ES 5 (statics and engineering mechanics)
4: ES 7 (thermodynamics), ES 9 (?), ME 1 (mechanical design and fabrication)
There are 8 other required engineering courses in the last four semesters, plus 1 foundation elective, 4 concentration electives (presumably technical courses), and 2 free electives (may be anything). So the student gets substantial engineering content in this degree program.

The humanities and social studies in the Tufts ME curriculum includes 1 English course and 5 other HASS courses for a total of 6. All ABET-accredited engineering bachelor’s degree programs will include humanities and social studies requirements, though the amount and type can vary by school.

All ABET-accredited engineering bachelor’s degree programs will have both engineering science and engineering design content, although schools may tilt one way or the other, and students may, though engineering elective choices, tilt one way or the other.

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Speaking on behalf of WPI, I have had projects in all of my classes. We take 12 a year, 6 a semester, and all of them have had projects. From small stuff like in-lab projects which include building a speaker from scratch, to robots. In the intro robotics class you are building literally from day 1. I’m an ECE student, so my knowledge of Mech E curriculum is limited, but I do know that my roommate had very hands on classes, starting from the beginning.