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With that transcript, are any of those schools offering a full ride?

Ron,....as much as I hate to say it....if engineering is the direction, Clempson has an outstanding program, and worth looking onto. I think the others listed are also solid.....including SC.

From a Graphics perspective, I would recommend that he also look into the Savannah College of Arts and Design (SCAD) in Savannah GA.  https://admission.scad.edu/forms/reqInfo/genlanding?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=SCAD%3A%20Branded%3A%20National&utm_term=savannh%20college%20of%20art%20and%20design&utm_content=National%3A%20SCAD%20Branding My wife taugh Art for many years and has helped place quite a few students here. She would be a good person to talk with if he is interested. Also happy to host you guys if touring in the area.

Ron, my son is in the engineering program at USC and loves it so far, daughter is a senior there and loves it as well. If your kid plays an instrument USC offers basically an equivalent to in-state tuition if you are in marching band, my son is taking advantage of that. Good luck.

Out of the list, I'd go with GT.  

Dook has a great bio engineering school.  

One's I know.

My younger SIL went to Purdue. It is and has been for decades a very fine school for engineering and the science. He's started his fud program in CS to move up to prof. at IU. Low rent, and good 'Q in the city. High rate of job placement for graduates. Pretty much isolated in rural Indiana. but on an interstate 2 hrs from Chi. 

Indiana at Bloomington. Spectacular arts facilities. Both son's went there, had a close friend who did his Masters in music there, thought it was one of the best programs in the country. Medium rent, spectacular food scene. Closest nat'l airport is Indy, about an hour away by shuttle bus. IU has a very strong medical program, but I don't know what, if anything, they have in bio-engineering.

Berkley, well, its rad. My god daughter is doing her fud there, she's got an IQ somewhere above 150, and that was her choice. Cost of living can be daunting. When not w. her husband at UC Davis, she shared an apt. w. 5 other gals in Berkley.

SCAD, a friend of mine taught there. She was phenomenally skilled. Retired now, but if she was an example of the faculty, there are very good teachers there.

pasoegg said:

   My son attends Clemson and loves that place along with about every student that ever went to Clemson.  

 Matter of fact my son gives tours (CUGA) at Clemson.   Dare you to take him to a Clemson home football game right now and see where he ends up!!!  

Boooooo

I wish your family the best on the journey for finding him a home...can be a little overwhelming but I'm sure with his credentials he will do well anywhere he decides to hang his hat...

DoubleEgger said:

tarheelmatt said:

Out of the list, I'd go with GT.  

Dook has a great bio engineering school.  

Dook is $65k/yr too. 

I like having fun with others money!

Your son sounds somewhat similar to mine.  He was interested in engineering and music.  We had told him that he can't major in just music - but that he could double major or minor in it.  He got in to UT Austin for electrical engineering and was very happy to be going there.  Decided to not even apply anywhere else.

And then....

A letter came in the mail from the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins...

They have a program in Recording Arts with a double major in music performance.  With Engineering/math/physics classes with the regular Johns Hopkins undergrads.  It spoke to him.  Over 400 kids applied.  Application included a music audition DVD that was loaded onto Dropbox for them to view.  And a Skype interview.  He was one of 10 accepted.  After a semester in the program he realized that it was more narrow (would only give him job opportunities in the music industry and he would only learn engineering that is pertinent to music and sound physics).  He wants a broader engineering education.  The only problem is that now he is a "transfer" applicant.  Even at Johns Hopkins.  They are evaluated differently.  After the high school kids applying for freshman spots.  And with different criteria.  UT Austin rejected him.   He ended up on his feet at Tulane studying Biomedical Engineering and is very happy - as are we.  But it was a real struggle with a lot of months of uncertainty and it could have ended up a lot worse.  We even talked about him living at home and going to junior college.  Wouldn't have been the end of the world and would have been a good live lesson. 

I don't know much about SCAD, but if your son decides to go some place like that (great school, but with a narrow education focus) he needs to be very sure of what he wants to do.  It is hard to get from there to another institution.  It worked out for my son because he earned a 3.6 average at Johns Hopkins/Peabody, but again, there was a lot of angst.

If he really wants to do Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech is ranked #2 behind Johns Hopkins (where by the way my son was ultimately accepted as a "transfer" student, but he was told the only major he couldn't do was Biomedical Engineering because they are oversubscribed).  Tulane is also excellent and they have an incredible program where they start them very early getting involved in their own projects with mentors from the medical school.   I could put you in touch with one of their PhDs who met with my son and provided him the best mentoring I've ever seen for a student at any level (I'm on a med school faculty and have won over a dozen teaching awards - many of them for mentoring - and I'm president of a national surgical education organization.  After that meeting I decided I needed to step up my game).

Good luck with this.  It is an exciting time.  We've enjoyed the journey and hopefully your family will as well.  PM me if I can help.