Sure, it is called early decision. If you commit to go they get a higher rate of accepted initial offers and their ranking goes up. It also helps them plan better. There is a big controversy raging in the Ivy League as some schools have started dropping early decision programs as unfairly biased toward white upper class types or something PC like that.Spanky said:let's get back to college selection - just received a letter from University of Nebraska at Lincoln. They will pledge free tuition plus $2000 for room and board if you name them as the first college of choice. Does anyone know the resason that a college would insist on that?
Spanky said:let's get back to college selection - just received a letter from University of Nebraska at Lincoln. They will pledge free tuition plus $2000 for room and board if you name them as the first college of choice. Does anyone know the resason that a college would insist on that?
Doug,DFW_M5 said:It appears you are trying to identify best value for the money. If you haven't done so already, I would suggest spending time visiting some of these schools to help narrow your list and then target schools that your daughter is most comfortable with. Many of the schools you mention will have very large class sizes for the first couple of years of instruction and often times classes are taught by graduate assistants and/or foreign professors who are very difficult to understand. This structure can be a turn off to many very bright students and can sour them on engineering. Therefore, don't discount some of the smaller engineering schools.
PS - Aside from the above, I have a son at A&M and he loves it.
Spanky said:let's get back to college selection - just received a letter from University of Nebraska at Lincoln. They will pledge free tuition plus $2000 for room and board if you name them as the first college of choice. Does anyone know the resason that a college would insist on that?
Reminds me of my husband, who after being the top math/science dude in an excellent school system (Greenwich CT), was barely above average at MIT--where EVERYONE was the top math/science dude(ette) at their HS!P.S. said:My mom did add that she doesn't recommend it except "unless (she) is advanced," and cites for example one of my brother's 1st year classmate who was valedictorian of her Fairfax county (good school system), but wasn't invited back for year 2. Both brothers went to a science tech highschool so were familair with the firehose approach to learning.
That's one of my concerns about getting into MIT or Caltech - keeping a good grade. The director of admission warned us about that but also said that graduate schools, in general, would raise the GPA by a point for MIT or Caltech graduates. I am not sure this is really the case.astromeria said:Reminds me of my husband, who after being the top math/science dude in an excellent school system (Greenwich CT), was barely above average at MIT--where EVERYONE was the top math/science dude(ette) at their HS!
justin said:If only broadened horizons and expanded minds put food on the table and dollars in your retirement accounts.
justin said:Every time I see the name "Harvey Mudd", I think of the beer shown below.
I looked at the Harvey Mudd Engineering curriculum. Can't say I'm impressed. They offer a general engineering degree. No discipline specific concentrations. I would think that would hurt you in obtaining a job after college. Where would you get the specific skill sets needed in most entry level engineering jobs? Based on a brief review of Harvey Mudd's website, I think their response would be that college isn't about obtaining a job, but rather broadening your horizons and expanding your mind. If only broadened horizons and expanded minds put food on the table and dollars in your retirement accounts.
jeff2006 said:Their response might be more along the lines that the BS is not an adequate professional qualification, and that the purpose of undergraduate education is to get you into a good grad school. As you may know, there has been a lot of talk about making the MS or the Doctor of Engineering (as different from the PhD) the first professional qualification for engineers, thereby moving engineering toward parity (in terms of credentials, at least) with law, optometry, and so forth. I think that a number of schools now call the BS major "pre engineering."
justin said:Yeah, the talk about making a grad degree the first professional degree has been ongoing for, what, a decade at least? A similar thing happened with law degrees many years ago. A bachelor's (LLB) used to be the professional degree, then they got all sophisticated and figured they'd hand out doctorates (JD) and charge a few bucks more. Is the pre-engineering degree going to turn in to a general ed degree and the first professional degree going to become the MS/PhD? Seems silly and expensive.
My employer has a master's as the standard "entry level" degree for traffic engineering. A BS is sufficient for roadway design.
By the way, what discipline are you in?