<p>zoosermom,
Yes… The third sentence I wrote, out of three sentences total, indicated those girls who would not like too much attention from boys probably would not like Stevens.</p>
<p>stealthposter,</p>
<p>Payscale.com just reports filtered data from their database of responses from all the people who seek information from the site. If they list the “Pennsylvania College of Technology”, it means that people seeking information from their site are putting that sub-school down as the source of their engineering degree(s). Payscale is not averaging anything or creating any new data. They are simply reporting the data they have.</p>
<p>A lot of people get confused about sites like payscale and other job/salary sites when they rank schools. Unlike the ranking from USNews, their focus is NOT to rank schools. They simply have that data available to them… they know it’s valuable to people… so it’s a good PR/advertising move to publish it.</p>
<p>I wanted to thank everyone for their posts. My D met with a Stevens professor yesterday and will meet with Honors students @ U Del in a couple weeks. After that, it’ll be time to decide. I feel that either way she’ll have a great experience, it’s just that she needs to decide WHICH experience she wishes.</p>
<p>Pharryn, don’t hesitate to contact the ChemE department at UD to set up a meeting with a professor.</p>
<p>My daughter and I did that last spring with the Biomedical Engineering department and the meeting swayed her from RPI to UD. And as fate would have it, she is doing summer research in conjunction with that same professor.</p>
<p>Best of luck to your daughter in her decision.</p>