<p>I love UPenn, but I know that if I could get into Penn, I could get into a "better" engineering school as well. Is there any reason I should choose Penn over a higher ranked engineering school like Harvey Mudd or Carnegie Mellon?</p>
<p>If you have to ask, then you should not even bother applying. Going to a school should be based on ambitions then name. If you have to question yourself then forget about it.</p>
<p>What kind of engineering and what type of program are you looking for? The answer to that makes a big difference which school might be better. If Bioengineering and you want a lot of advanced research in medical related field then Penn has an edge. If EE or CompSci, then CMU is the premier school for that. If you want small where professors will have a better chance of knowing you by name, then maybe HMU.</p>
<p>I’m looking for chemical engineering. And I currently intend on going straight to grad school afterwards (that could change).</p>
<p>I do not know much about ChemE. These are all great schools, I would suggest doing more research into each program. Even within ChemE, I am sure there are specialized fields within it. Take a look at the professors web pages and familiarizes yourself with their interest and imagine which one would be most interesting to you. Visit the schools if you can and ponder the small vs large issue, research vs personal attention issue, weather, geography, or whatever other factors that might be important to you. Usually something sort of click when you visit and you get the attachment to one or two schools that you find as the best fit for you.</p>
<p>I’m going into Chemical Engineering. Depending on where you look you’ll find Penn is usually ranked within the top 15 or 20 Chemical Engineering programs in the US (Undergrad and Grad school).</p>
<p>The things I like best about the program are the concentrations and classes offered for each. I’ll be doing my concentration in Biotechnology and Pharmaceutics and I’m pretty thrilled because what I <em>REALLY</em> want out of a Chem. E. degree is the biotech aspect…something that many good schools don’t offer at the undergrad level.</p>
<p>“I love UPenn” so maybe let that matter a bit?</p>