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Originally Posted by Chris is me
This concerns me. I'm having trouble at a tough school. If my odds of success are better at decent-but-not-spectacular state schools, should I just go to those?
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The flaw with comparing schools success rates is like the flaw of saying that an apple is much better than an orange. Unless what their graduates come out knowing is the exact same (and it's impossible for it to be, as the experience at a school is unique), saying X is > Y because of Z is impossible to verify because all the variables are qualitative.
I'm assuming you go to RPI? While a state school might have an accredited program just the same, small schools/programs like that excel because they're focused on producing far-more-than-competant engineers, rather than just a bunch of guys/gals that have a diploma with a BS in [field] engineering because they got by on a bunch of C's and some B's while partying for four years. Yes, it's tougher at some schools, because that's the primary point of going to one of those schools. If the latter was the goal, then you probably might want to transfer.