Trying to decide where to go. Looking for school with Strong academics and plenty of sports opportunities. Looking at engineering and stem. Want good professors and motivating class experiences.
At LACs you’ll need to do a 5 year stem or a school like w and l which is not accredited. If you want small check out rose hulman
Were you admitted to all three?
St Olaf is the strongest academically.
Look into the Conversations, see if any of these is of interest.
Wooster has a mandatory thesis/research project. Is that appealing to you?
Is there a difference in cost?
What do you call STEM?
(These colleges dont offer Engineering but do offer Physics).
If you really want to study engineering, why not choose a college that actually offers true engineering majors (not 3+2 programs or bits of engineering)?
Did you get admitted to any affordable colleges that actually offer true engineering majors?
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I’m not 100% sure about engineering. I enjoy math and chemistry and like the idea of creating/designing but haven’t had a chance to do much with engineering. I did apply to Messiah and Calvin U which both have engineering. But not sure if I want to go to a Christian college. Still thinking through that. I have been accepted at all my schools. Financial aid is about the same at all of them though Messiah is offering best package at the moment. Anyone know about athletics programs? Have talked some with coaches. I’m not looking to be recruited but want to play sports and succeed in classes so looking for strong academic athletes.
If you do enigineering, ensure they are ABET. So you have already applied, etc. They both (Calvin, Messiah) appear to be so.
You might check out Rose Hulman - which is small and STEM. After May 1, colleges will reopen that have room - on the NACAC list - although Rose Hulman is primarily engineering.
If there’s a chance you want to do engineering, unless you want to start at one school and finish at another, you want to go to one with engineering. While you may not pursue it, the college should have your other choices too.
If you do engineering at St. Olaf, you do three years and then two at WUSTL - a great program - and get your bachelor. With Wooster, it’s WUSTL or Case Western.
Both great options but a longer timeframe.
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Messiah and Calvin are evangelical so you have to be certain you want to live/breathe your faith. There are mandatory chapels, Bible studies, parietals (dorm rules), a code of conduct.
St Olaf is religious, but offers various viewpoints and faiths. Chapel is optional. It’s also nationally famous for its music program as well as STEM (Math, in particular).
Gustavus has roots in the Lutheran faith, too. It’s less rigorous than St Olaf but still stronger than Messiah.
Finally, Wooster is secular. Its characteristics is the mandatory research you must conduct, write up, and defend senior year.