<p>We will be traveling along the east coast this Spring break and think I should stop and visit a few colleges with my 10th grader. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. He's a B student in all honors classes at a top 100 public school. He is seriously interested in music and engineering and the school needs to be good about lds. (I don't even know how to judge that but he'll need extended time and a copy of class notes.) He's urm and let's predict very average SATs, say 1650. For purposes of this trip, I am primarily interested in schools between North Carolina and Florida but would be willing to stop in Virginia too. </p>
<p>So far, I'm thinking Clemson. He's already visited U Miami. I think UNC Greensboro and College of Charleston would be interesting but I don't think either of them have engineering. Any ideas or input on any of those schools?</p>
<p>These may be too far north for you, but for average-ish scores and engineering, take a look at Virginia Tech, Delaware, UMBC, RIT. I have no idea how the lds or urm come into play. </p>
<p>if Clemson is on your list, would you visit U South Carolina as well?
Has Engineering,School of Music,manageable sized campus,I think his stats would be fine,I would suspect a good accomodations for lds.</p>
<p>UMBC is an “honors” campus, but this is in comparison with the lesser Maryland state schools (Towson, Salisbury, Frostburg), NOT in comparison with UMCP. It is more difficult to get admitted to UMCP than to UMBC.</p>
<p>UMBC is smaller than CP. Trying to shake its commuter school reputation from past years. On outskirts of Baltimore, not really near anything. Good reputation in the science and math areas. Has some engineering, but not electrical (undergrad). Championship chess team. </p>
<p>UMBC’ 25/75th percentile range for SAT (V+M) is 1080-1300 compared with UMPC 1170-1380, so I thought it might not be out of the question for OP’s son’s estimated 1650/2400.</p>