<p>We will travel from Boston to Cleveland to New York City. What top schools (top 50) should we visit? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>What major is student interested in?</p>
<p>Engineering, math.</p>
<p>Is your student male or female?</p>
<p>Stubborn male.</p>
<p>Ok, so that leaves out the women’s colleges! Do you think he is interested in larger schools, liberal arts schools, universities? Rural or urban? any particular preferences or no-nos?</p>
<p>No particular preferences.</p>
<p>Well, come to Harvard while you’re in the area :)! A lot of my math/science friends love Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, so maybe your son may want to stop there on the way.</p>
<p>Case Western, Carnegie Mellon, Lafayette, Lehigh, Villanova. Not top 50 I don’t think but have good engineering and math programs.</p>
<p>Top 50…well…MIT is in that group. All of the Ivies.</p>
<p>Definitely visit MIT! And there’s also Cooper Union, which has arguably one of the best undergraduate engineering schools…</p>
<p>Cornell, of course.</p>
<p>Penn State main campus. Think about the University of Toronto (excellent large public university in a great, attractive city, cheap by US standards). Definitely RPI in Troy NY.</p>
<p>Cornell, Hamilton, Colgate, Oberlin</p>
<p>Oberlin is a great school but I don’t think you’ll find an engineering major there…I could be wrong…but it’s not listed on their website.</p>
<p>Boston University as a good engineering program.</p>
<p>With mention of upstate NY colleges already I would add Union College.</p>
<p>Type of engineering may also narrow down your choice. My s is interested in Materials Science and it is not offered for a top program everywhere…so you might want to check on that. Princeton also offers engineering. University of Delaware is a top notch choice for Chemical Engineering…lots of DuPont $$ invested there. Stevens Institute of Technology…but may not appeal…great view of NYC though. Columbia also offers engineering. Cornell is tops and very beautiful!!</p>
<p>You should get a variety of school visits. Not sure “top 50” should be criteria. </p>
<p>Here are some of my ideas for that geo - Olin, RPI, RIT, Clarkson (but for OP too far out of the way), Northeastern in Boston (great co-op program, merit $) and Case in Cleveland (merit $), Carnegie Mellon. </p>
<p>CA - Cal Tech, Mudd. Cal Poly San Luis Obisco<br>
Midwest- Rose Hulman.
CO - CO School of Mines </p>
<p>Lots of other great engineering schools too. Depends on priorities. Those happen to be some that we know about of have visited.</p>
<p>hopeforbest2…are you looking for colleges for the same kiddo you worry about because he does not do his work and you have to wake him and remind him and such? If so, are you looking for a smaller school, one that is less competitive (as you said in other posts he does not do well in school and grades are not all that terrific), one with good academic support services? Why top 50?</p>
<p>^perhaps because in addition to being strong in engineering, many top schools offer equally strong humanity departments, and for many families, much better financial aid packages. At these schools you’re also more likely to find classmates who are talented in all sorts of subjects and extracurricular pursuits, etc etc etc. But I completely agree with you though that different people do find different kinds of environments more suitable to their needs and interests.</p>
<p>If he can not get in top 50, he will go to state university. That is our plan.</p>