She wants to major in EE/CS robotics, and wants to apply to
Worcester Poly, Rensselaer Poly, Stevens Institute, NorthEastern as her "preferred schools",
Rochester Inst. Tech, SUNY at Stony Brook, Virginia Tech, in order of preference, last 3 as her "safe schools", following campus visits.
Which ones support collaborative project development where students make each other better, which ones have good school spirit, which ones have good placement record after graduation, or other pertinent information or fact that you won't find listed in a glossy package.
When I made this request 2 years ago for my older daughter, I got some really good advice from alums and people with attending family members.
Thanks to BeerFridge, Metnut, Schnitzie among others, older daughter is very happy with her choice.
I had work experiences in three different fields of civil engineering before I graduated which really helped narrow down the field I wanted to pursue post graduation
I posted about Clarkson on another similar thread. I am out of loop as my EE degree is from way back in 1990, and I left the field 20 years ago. In any event, I always remember Clarkson being talked about very positively back then.
I wound up at a SUNY with no robotics program, but got re-directed by this thing called a router and the Internet in '89 as an undergrad. Would agree an excellent engineering school in general will present a number of career options.
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I wound up at a SUNY with no robotics program, but got re-directed by this thing called a router and the Internet in '89 as an undergrad. Would agree an excellent engineering school in general will present a number of career options.
The SUNY schools are a great value. I remember that you attended a SUNY school, but I can't remember which one. I had a double major in physics and EE between Geneseo and Buffalo. I was really happy with that program, and it was definitely rigorous. I was always worried about debt, so I never really considered any private schools. My brother got into Cornell but also attended a SUNY school for the same reason.
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and Robotics was my initial field of interest when looking at schools back in 1987, and it seems the top schools remain the same as back then : RPI, Northeastern, and MIT or USMA if you're willing to aim high.
I wound up at a SUNY with no robotics program, but got re-directed by this thing called a router and the Internet in '89 as an undergrad. Would agree an excellent engineering school in general will present a number of career options.
The SUNY schools are a great value. I remember that you attended a SUNY school, but I can't remember which one. I had a double major in physics and EE between Geneseo and Buffalo. I was really happy with that program, and it was definitely rigorous. I was always worried about debt, so I never really considered any private schools. My brother got into Cornell but also attended a SUNY school for the same reason.
Hey Rick, I'm a New Paltz grad. As enticing as the big schools were (and I wanted to attend UNC Chapel Hill in the worst way, but the baseball scholarship didn't show up), the SUNY degree and only $9500 in college debt in the end worked for me as well.
I've wondered if life would've been different now if I'd gone away to school ... alumni stuff, maybe an easier time to bump into a future wife etc ... but it was a low cost, low friction option.
At RPI, I stayed with a kid right before finals and teh rest of the hall took his books and confiscated them which sent the kid into the biggest meltdown I've ever seen. I had top call the baseball coach to pick me up and I spent the night with his family.
Both schools I really had high on my list of attending.
My parents offered me a free car to go to West Point, but believe me, you don't want me on that wall. You don't need me on that wall, and my ass wouldn't have been able to drive a car until I was a senior, probably. So I compromised and applied for an ROTC Scholarship. My main decision was to go either Army ROTC or Navy ROTC.
I ended up going Army and choosing Bucknell. The only thing I could have looked back at is if I should have gone to Princeton, but the way things have turned out, I don't really think I've done that.
But on the up side, they would have loaned you the money to buy it yourself.
Bill, Clarkson is in Potsdam too. I loved my time at Geneseo. I made some great friends there that I am still in touch with to this day. Those were three of the best years of my life!
No athletic money =
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No thank you.
No athletic money =
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No thank you.
However, the Ivy's have some of the largest endowments and financial aid budgets of any schools out there, so it's the net cost that matters more than the top line.
For example, if your household income is less than $100K/yr then your accepted student can attend Dartmouth tuition-free. That's huge.
Such is life.