<p>Here’s Engineer school tier</p>
<p>First tier:
MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech</p>
<p>Second tier:
Georgia Tech, UIUC, U michigan, CMU, UT Austin, Cornell, Purdue</p>
<p>Third tier: Rest of engineer schools</p>
<p>^^^^^^ what do you think my chances are at any of those. Another reach question here: how’s johns Hopkins at engineering</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins is very good at some areas of engineering and average at others. It all just depends on what you are looking to do.</p>
<p>I don’t know how ACT would compare to SAT score so can’t say for sure… </p>
<p>John hopkins’s medical school is top notch so undoubtably biomedical engineer program gained its strength from it. But that’s only known engineer department within JHU which is 1st in US but you need to get master at least to get job related to biomedical. Admission to JHU biomedical engineer is cutthroat… If you want to go into biomedical, I suggest you to go to JHU, Georgia Tech, Duke, UCSD. </p>
<p>If you want degree in mechanical, try to get into first tier I mentioned and if you can’t, go for second tier. UIUC, Gatech, and U Michigan are best choice within second tier for Mech eng.</p>
<p>Yeah that first tier is good stuff I doupt I could get into any of those. Would I have an advantege to those California shools from ny.</p>
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<p>Actually Tulane no longer has ME as a major, just Chem E and BME (although their BME program is very good). They do have an interesting 3+2 program where you attend Tulane for 3 years and get a degree in physics, then you go to either Johns Hopkins or Vanderbilt (your choice) for 2 years and get a degree from that institution in ME or any other engineering program Tulane no longer offers. The move to those schools is guaranteed as long as you are in good standing at Tulane. So in 5 years you have 2 complete degrees in Physics and Engineering from 2 highly thought of schools. Just throwing it out there for your thoughts. With your GPA, if you can get your ACT (maybe you should try the SAT also) up to 31-32, Tulane would be likely to give you a fairly nice merit scholarship.</p>
<p>Try taking the SAT if the ACT isn’t working for you.
Rice or CMU currently would be a reach. There are plenty of schools in PA and the Northeast. Also consider looking at Case Western or WUSTL.</p>
<p>I second the poster that mentioned Lafayette and Lehigh. Both great schools with strong engineering reputations and not that far from home. Also, I think you mentioned that you are from a strong high school? Perhaps you should meet with your counselor. They will have a better idea than CC posters about your class rank and your hs relationship/success with particular schools. Also, most hs guidance prefer students to build their school list from the bottom up and not the top down. Good luck!</p>
<p>Hopkins has more than just BME, but it is realy in niche areas. They do outstanding fluid mechanics work, for example. However, the department is tiny and most of the outstanding stuff is graduate level so unless you are doing BME, you are probably better off elsewhere.</p>
<p>You could probably get into some of those schools CSmajor5 listed as tier 2 if you get up to a 30 on the ACT because the rest of your stuf is at least competitive.</p>
<p>Thanks for your responces that tulane looks interesting. I visited lehigh and lafiette but didn’t like them as much as villanova but they made the list. I’m asking this here because my councler hasn’t helped me much with picking colleges she just agrees with what I say.</p>
<p>^ I didn’t like lehigh or lafeyette either, and I didn’t apply. </p>
<p>I kinda think as far as engineering is concerned most are considered about equal. I mean, from what I’ve always got was that prestige only matters in starting salary but after 5 or so years into the work, it’s your experience not school. UT or Cornell, they were both the same to me. </p>
<p>Just go for the school you’re going to be happiest at, the environment you’ll like best, but that also has a good career center and internships. Take the list off of ABETs site and slowly start crossing places off (it’s literally what I did).</p>
<p>Then, you know, visit and try getting an idea of the environment. Here’s what bugs me that I see: this guy Joe I know wants to be an engineer, something in aerospace. But his goal is MIT, now he’s got good stats, good SAT scores, an interview, likes physics, studies, IB candidate, community service, hispanic, all that glorious jazz. He’s also a bit cocky saying to me that carnegie is his “back up school”. Oh, and he procrastinates and forgets to apply to carnegie and is late to apply to harvey mudd. But he does apply to MIT, amherst, and A&M. Amherst and A&M are schools our counselor made us all apply to. He doesn’t get into MIT, chooses between Amherst and A&M and picks AMHERST! Are you kidding me? They don’t even have an engineering department, it’s a fancy named liberal arts college, but he’s going there because of the prestige. Ridiculous. Also, the kicker is that this lazy genius at our school M got into all kinds of fancy named schools like Rice and Stanford but he’s going to A&M to teach his strict and perfectionist mom that it doesn’t matter what school you go to, he’s also gonna be an engineer, but he does really like A&M. </p>
<p>I think, just go somewhere you’ll be happy. Engineering is a hard degree and it’ll be harder if you’re going somewhere you don’t really like just for prestige.</p>
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<p>Don’t sweat it, lucky. That is his standard response to anyone who says that prestige is not the number one thing to look at. I would have to agree that your friend who chose A&M is right that he will get plenty of opportunity with a degree from there, though I am a little shocked that anyone would pass on Stanford unless they simply couldn’t afford it. The kid who took Amherst over A&M is just simply goofy.</p>
<p>Ranking means something, but not everything, and as long as you go to a school in the top 20 or so, you aren’t going to see a noticeable drop off in career opportunities unless you want to go into finance or something, which is only a very small percentage of engineers. MIT or Stanford are certainly great schools, but they aren’t for everyone, and there are still plenty of top end companies that recruit from schools farther down the list.</p>
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