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This is exactly the reason our D18 went to Swarthmore. We weren’t really sure about Engineering long term, so we saw Swat as having the best options if things didn’t work out.
In an odd twist, had she not been at Swat I doubt she would have graduated anywhere else with an Engin degree. One of her professors literally took her under her wing and tutored her through 2 of her classes Sophomore year.
Engineering has been a major at Swat since it’s founding and is now the largest major at the School. There are plenty of STEM kids wandering around the campus.
She has now been working for a couple of years, and the startup that hired her confessed (after a year or so) to targeting Swat because they wanted a non-research State U view of their issues and how to solve them.