<p>Rank the elite colleges in terms of acceptance rates , super job placements , International recognition as well as prestige . (P.s.- Undergraduate Mechanical engineering)</p>
<p>Try Carnegie Mellon? NYU Polytech? Cornell?</p>
<p>Next tier is like CalTech? MIT?</p>
<p>I had a question . </p>
<p>Do colleges like CMU and Cornell admit student who are average or below average just for the sake of money ( students who can pay the whole ride) ?</p>
<p>Can u make submit in the form of a list ?
top 10 </p>
<p>MIT easiest ? :P</p>
<p>^Ummm. Cornell and CMU are both need-blind for admissions, so they don’t. And you have to be way above average in order to be admitted to them.
Case Western and U. of Washington are both pretty prestigous, have highly ranked engineering programs, and aren’t too difficult to get into.</p>
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<p>NYU poly is a tier 3 university !</p>
<p>Cornell and CMU are both need-blind for admissions . what does this mean ?</p>
<p>I also had a few doubts </p>
<p>Rankings suggest that UMichigan’s (UIUC, Purdue …)Mechanical engineering program is better than that of the Ivies . Is it true . Yet many students opt to go to colleges such as northwestern .</p>
<p>It means they don’t look at your financial situation when deciding whether to admit you.</p>
<p>Ok … what about the other Q’s i have asked ? </p>
<p>Which elite colleges look at the financial situation ? </p>
<p>Thanks a lot for the help</p>
<p>No problem.</p>
<p>Can u people please answer the rest of my Q’s asked above ??</p>
<p>By being need-blind for admissions, those schools WILL NOT give you an advantage because you can pay fully. They will admit people based on academic criteria. Therefore, your ability to pay full tuition will not overcome a below average academic career. However, if you aim a little lower, there are many programs that will accept you.</p>
<p>UM, Purdue are competitive programs with highly sought after spots. </p>
<p>What do you mean by “just below average”? Perhaps you’re more competitive than you think. Good luck to you.</p>
<p>Check the financial aid policies of the schools you’re interested in…unless you want us to look for you. Btw, don’t expect an answer every few minutes…</p>
<p>If you are not a US citizen or green card holder, things are going to get tricky, particularly if you need financial aid.</p>
<p>Cornell, Caltech and MIT are very hard to get into for engineering, why would you mention them as easy to get into?? CMU is also pretty hard, though not as hard.</p>
<p>Rice also has a great engineering program, and its not quite as competitive as Caltech and MIT.</p>
<p>But wouldn’t it be easier for females to apply to engineering programs because they’re typically male dominated?</p>
<p>twomules: the OP is an international who can pay full freight and hopes that it will make him/her a more attractive despite his supposed average scores/GPA.</p>
<p>The fact is this combination IS desired by some schools – but most likely not the so-called “prestigious” ones he/she is looking at in the USNWR lists (as if they were the final arbiter of truth…)</p>
<p>a school that has reasonable prestige and a high percentage of acceptance would be University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, and University of Michigan Ann Arbor. </p>
<p>i saw your stats in your other posts and i think you only have a decent chance on these two. these two have elite programs but the elite “elite” are as follows, Carnegie Mellon, Cal Tech, MIT, Cornell, Stanford, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Duke. pretty much these are the only schools that really have an international prestige. as an international student, regardless of your ability to pay, it’s hard to get in. International students who went to IMO, Intel, ISEF, IBO competitions apply to these schools. from what i saw, you don’t even have any science relalted activities. I won’t say you shouldn’t apply, cuz US college applications are very random. however i would tell you that you shouldn’t be at all disappointed if you do get rejected by these schools.</p>