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I am a junior. I want to major in bio-med. engineering and then attend med. school. I am much better in math and science than English.
I live in MI.
Stats 1310 SAT (retaking)
Act 27 (retaking)
Tons of ecs.
4.0 UW
1 of 419.
no legacy, father is an engineer

By Starsistar (Starsistar) on Wednesday, April 02, 2003 - 11:13 pm: Edit

cornell, MIT, caltech, carnegie mellon, RIT, WPI, RPI

By Baltodad (Baltodad) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 04:55 pm: Edit

U.S. News, best undergrad bio-med engineering schools (in order): Hopkins, Duke, UC - San Diego, Case Western, MIT

By Doctort (Doctort) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 05:19 pm: Edit

For overall engineering, the best schools are:
MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley, U. Illinois, GeorgiaTech, CMU, Cornell, RPI, Princeton, Northwestern, Purdue, JHU, UTexas, U. Wisconsin--these are the top 15 overall
For biomed engineering: JHU, Duke, CWRU, MIT, Northwestern, Wash U.

By Cru (Cru) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 08:25 pm: Edit

International student. Korean
SATI-1360
writing-640
physics-760
Chem-760
math2c-800

uwgpa-3.95
wgpa.4.25

Applied for electrical engineering except for Johns Hopkins(applied biomedical engineering)


Cornell University (accepted)
Johns Hopkins University (accepted)
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (accepted)
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (accepted)
Purdue University (accepted)
GeorgiaTech (rejected)
University of Texas at Austin(accepted)
Rice University (waitlist)
UPENN (waitlist)
Columbia University (rejected)

By John (John) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 11:18 pm: Edit

If you live in MI, take advantage of U Mich Ann Arbor, unless you feel you want to leave Michigan for College.

It's one of the top engineering programs in the country, and I'm sure the tuition will be fantastic compared to other colleges for in state.

By Zerostylus (Zerostylus) on Sunday, April 06, 2003 - 12:54 am: Edit

yeah, hell. he lives in MI, and umich is like 5th for engineering. maybe not biomed, but if youre looking for convenience nearby, umich is great

By Rakesh (Rakesh) on Tuesday, April 08, 2003 - 01:36 am: Edit

hi there. I needed some advice on choosing a graduate school in Electrical Engineering, specifically semiconductors. I have done my undergraduate BS in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech. For graduate school, I have been admitted to the MS program in Georgia Tech, MEng program in Cornell University and Master of Electrical Engineering in Rice University.
Any ideas?

By Ariesathena (Ariesathena) on Thursday, April 10, 2003 - 02:31 am: Edit

If you want to do engineering into med school, look at Tufts, which has one of the best pre-med programs in the country. If you take your classes carefully, you can do biomedical engineering and pre-med. Also, I strongly recommend that you look into the joint degree program: BS and masters in engineering and an MD for an eight year program. Look at the website:
http://www.tufts.edu/med/programs/engineering.html

It sounds like something you would be interested in. Good luck!

By Kk02 (Kk02) on Monday, April 14, 2003 - 07:18 am: Edit

Cru, congratulations, you got what you wanted!!!

I got rejected from Cornell, accepted to Columbia SEAS, CMU, Duke, Northwestern, Brown,...

Please advise me where to go with a preliminary interest in engineering!

By Dts (Dts) on Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 01:02 am: Edit

does anyone know where i can find Mechanical Engineering Technology rankings? it is supposed to be a completely differnt major from Mechanical Engineering..

anybody know how purdue and calpoly's programs are for MET? thanks

By Kk02 (Kk02) on Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 02:41 am: Edit

bump

By Gangsta (Gangsta) on Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 02:36 pm: Edit

The best engineering schools in terms of facilities, professor education/reputation, cost, and opportunities available for grads is Cornell engineering, Carnegie Mellon (CMU), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), MIT, Caltech, UMICH, and UIUC. Hands down for a great education these schools will get you into the top grad schools and a top position in research/industry. I would say that although MIT/Caltech are well known, they are not necessarily better than some of their classmates: CMU, RPI, Cornell. ALL of them will equally provide you with the best education. There isn't much difference between these schools in terms of education, research opportunities, facilities.

By Emeraldkity4 (Emeraldkity4) on Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 02:48 pm: Edit

I just wanted to add that my brother has an EE degree from university of colorado at Co Springs which isn't the most competitive of schools, and he has a great job starting at $100K + in R & D.

Its just one of those fields I guess.

By Gamezo (Gamezo) on Monday, June 02, 2003 - 12:31 am: Edit

Hi, I'm trying to find a good school for Electrical/Computer Engineering for a transfer student. I live in Calfirnia, LA to be specific. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By Niprt (Niprt) on Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 10:13 pm: Edit

I'm looking for a good structural engineering school (possibly with business or architecture classes). I live in CA and I'm hoping to stay on the west cost or as close as I can get. Any Ideas?

By Studiousvegetar (Studiousvegetar) on Wednesday, July 16, 2003 - 10:56 pm: Edit

Thanks for the input.

By Ticko1977 (Ticko1977) on Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 09:57 pm: Edit

hi, i live in miami , and i want to go to an engineering school, electrical engineering to be specific, but within the state , so i have like 3 choices. university of miami, florida international university and university of south florida. which do you recommend?