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Originally Posted by berettafan
Thanks so much for the input!
Wasn't sure about FIT as it is a very small school. He's interested though and does want to be somewhere nice. There is also a g/f that will be in school in Boca so i'm wary of his thought process. I'm wondering if a small school will have the resources to get him hands on experience vs a larger school.
He's waitlisted at RPI but i'm thinking he would hate going to school in NY. I'm partial to VT but he's not particularly wild about the location. Penn State would only be about 4.5 hrs away. VT is around 7. Everything else is a plane ride.
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RPI is a very very nice Campus in a terrible city. I started at Texas A&M, had a little too much fun and ended up at Union College (RPI's hockey rival) in Schenectady.
I went to RPI for 1 semester, 30+ years ago. The upside is it is a small beautiful campus. It is easy to get around. But it is a very cut throat place with everyone being a top student before going.
Texas A&M or any larger state school, big campus, lots of people and LOTS of people studying different subjects, which makes the male/female ratio better.
Union College is a SMALL school (2000 students), that offers a "classic" well rounded education, but is strangely 50% hard science and engineering. Beautiful Campus in another upstate awful city (but better now than when I went). If he like frats, this is one of the places to go.
It is hard to get a "bad" engineering degree. But he better plan on hitting the books because it is one of the more difficult degrees. School was easy for me, and I did not have great "study skills" before college. I had to learn them for engineering. And creating a study group is one of the best ways.