US Engineering..

[WiNd90]

Who've got US Engineering?
gathers here.. lol
btw is it hard to get into Ivy League Uni?
Harvard, Yale etc.. sounds terrible..

[joe_lyy90]

hi! i got US Engineering..!

[brucesharky]

Me too! US engineering. I agree that ivy league unis are difficult to enter. But not all Ivy league unis are ranked high in engineering. For e.g. Harvard is more for business, Brown for medicine, Yale too....check out US News. I think we should aim for the top engineering unis in US instead of the 8 Ivy Leagues. But still, MIT is also tough to enter. This year only 5 admitted. 5 Malaysian students!!!! =(

[WiNd90]

Me too! US engineering. I agree that ivy league unis are difficult to enter. But not all Ivy league unis are ranked high in engineering. For e.g. Harvard is more for business, Brown for medicine, Yale too....check out US News. I think we should aim for the top engineering unis in US instead of the 8 Ivy Leagues. But still, MIT is also tough to enter. This year only 5 admitted. 5 Malaysian students!!!! =(

yea.. Ivy League is terrible.. all top ranking uni..
but if we're not goin to IL uni we gotta take ATCP aint we
only 5 admitted to US Engineering?
or wut?

btw could u all pm me ur phone num n msn?
we're goin to be classmate soon..

[galfera]

hi, i also got the us engineering... frankly speaking i'm not really interested in the IL uni, my uni of choice would be UCB or MIT... but they r tough to enter.... btw, when will we start studying? all of u from where?

[WiNd90]

hmm..
i nvr expected to be offered to US frankly..
since my senior told me tht jpa usually send bumi to UK US..
while non-bumi usually wil be sent to aus or korea..
tht's y im less concern abt US uni.. =.=
now i gotta check it out.. :?
anyone mind to share the info they've got abt US?

[brucesharky]

Ok, let me start. I'm Mei Yueh, a girl from Malacca. Didn't jump class, so I'm 18 this year. =) . MSN: bruce4489@<hidden> or yahoo messenger, koalabearhero@<hidden>. I would like to know my future classmates. ^_^

[joe_lyy90]

hi mei yueh!! u definately knoe me!! I'll intro myself also then.. I'm yuinyi from Melaka.. 17 this year..^__^ My msn is joeynyi@<hidden>. I'm really blur about all this uni in US altho i got US engineering.. hehe

[joe_lyy90]

oh yea.. sorry i'm a bit blur.. but what's Ivy League?

[koln_auhc]

oh yea.. sorry i'm a bit blur.. but what's Ivy League?

And you got a scholarship to US.

*Claps hand

Woohoo.

[WiNd90]

US Engineering course is flooded by Malaccan eh? =.=
n.. bang bang bang!! u're all dead if i were Kira..
dont simply reveal ur real name.. :twisted:
im L.. (my frens cal me tht.. i like it! :P)
n i've added u both.. brucesharky n joe_Ivy90

[joe_lyy90]

right, koln_auhc, i noe.. *shame* how much blurer can anyone be right? haha *shoots myself*

i just never really thought i'd get it at all.. =P

[WiNd90]

same here actually..
i nvr tot to be offered to US..
non-bumi usually are sent to Korea n Aus..
a few seniors of mine were sent to Korea even they applied for general engineering..
so it's useless now i've checked the culture n system in Korea.. lol =.=
btw Ivy League consists 8 uni.. harvard, yale, brown, princeton etc..
somehow its related to sport field.. lol
i dont know much either..
anyone pls tel we lil juniors more..

[galfera]

try to search on wikipedia about ivy league... as far as i know ivy league is a football league between all the 8 unis.... hi, i'm sum1 from s'wak....

[rEaL_adDicT]

hi guys,

I got engineering in US too

The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education located in the Northeastern United States. The term is now most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group. The term has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and a reputation for social elitism.


the ivy league unis are :

Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island

Columbia University - New York, New York

Cornell University - Ithaca, New York

Dartmouth College - Hanover, New Hampshire

Harvard University - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Princeton University - Princeton, New Jersey

University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Yale University New Haven, Connecticut

[caramel_nut]

Ivies are usually not well-known for Engineering, as pointed out by fellow ReComers. However, there are JPA scholars in the past who graduated from Ivies in Engineering or Sciences and went on to professions totally unrelated to Engineering.

Getting an Engineering degree doesn't mean you have to be en engineer in the future. Many Engineering students go on to consulting and finance/banking, which are two of the most lucrative professions.

Some of the universities famous for their Engineering department are MIT, UCal Berkeley, Stanford, Caltech, Cornell and Geogia Tech. As far as I know, P'ton and Dartmouth's Engineering departments are very strong as well.

As for the selectivity in getting in those universities, well, it depends... Not extremely easy but I guess it's not totally impossible as well. :D

[Good]

I'm new guy here,but first thing i like to say is this web site server is suck. Here are some useful sites for you to know better on the ivy league universities:
http://www.go4ivy.com
and
http://www.studentsreview.com/ivy_league_compare.html

[tasha_choc_lover]

i got us engineering too.me,simply call me shasha!huhu..

[chenchow]

Agree with caramel_nut, most of the engineering graduates from top U.S. Universities do not end up being engineer.

For Cornell, only about 10-20% of engineering graduates eventually become engineer for 1 day. This does not mean that engineering major there is not good. Just go google Robocup, Formula SAE, Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and you would find that Cornell Engineering has won several world champions in those competition.

Most of the engineering graduates from Ivy League, in fact, a lot of those Ivy Leaguers, as well as other top universities, end up go into consulting and investment banking. These 2 are the 2 of the most lucrative fields in US and around the world.

A portion also end up doing PhD to go through the track to become academicians.

And in US, I believe most of you are aware that studying engineering does not mean that you would be learning mostly engineering. I only take 20% of my courses in Engineering. Most engineering students take about 20-40% of their courses in the field only.

[Butters]

now i have doubts....cause i might do electrical engineering in the US......

hmmmm..

[chiunlin]

But still, MIT is also tough to enter. This year only 5 admitted. 5 Malaysian students!!!! =(
5 is more of an exception than a rule. Usually, only 1-3 Malaysian students are admitted to MIT each year.

And yes, Ivy League is an athletic conference though nowadays it is also synonymous with academic excellence and low acceptance rate.

When it comes to engineering, overall, I guess Cornell has the best engineering college of all 8 and Cornell has the highest acceptance rate(well, about 3-8 Malaysians each year).

If you have any question about engineering in US, especially about EE, pm me.

[chenchow]

now i have doubts....cause i might do electrical engineering in the US......

hmmmm..

What doubts you have?

[Butters]

What doubts you have?

earlier, you said....

"most of the engineering graduates from top U.S. Universities do not end up being engineer"

does this mean most graduates with engineering degree will be unemployed?

[lXl]

What doubts you have?

earlier, you said....

"most of the engineering graduates from top U.S. Universities do not end up being engineer"

does this mean most graduates with engineering degree will be unemployed?

I think what chenchow meant is that most engineers 'chose' not to become an engineer after exploring the vast curriculum of the liberal arts education in the states.[/i]

[Excal]

If you are good, the job is always waiting for u....

[bush]

What doubts you have?

earlier, you said....

"most of the engineering graduates from top U.S. Universities do not end up being engineer"

does this mean most graduates with engineering degree will be unemployed?

I think what chenchow meant is that most engineers 'chose' not to become an engineer after exploring the vast curriculum of the liberal arts education in the states.[/i]

Quite the opposite.

Many chose that path because of $$$....not so much on what one has learnt in college.