Kettering University

[Sukhoi]

I highly recommend UIUC if you can get in. It's kind of lame but Eastern or Parkland is a good idea to help your GPA. When you get your UIUC degree you include the high GPA from the easy school the first 2 years. It's kind of cheating, but allowed.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Kettering is a great school. Very good engineering programs.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: ScottyB

Originally posted by: QurazyQuisp
Kettering is a very good school if you're looking to go into Mechanical Engineering especially the Automotive side, and a good school in general. Although, you're in Flint.

Right. There are many good schools in Michigan that aren't in Flint. Go to one of them instead.

Kettering is a work-study program, that is highly regarded for its engineering programs. The campus itself is beautiful, and so you don't really need to deal with downtown flint much.

 

[BarneyFife]

Originally posted by: SandEagle
Lawrence Tech (ltu.edu) is an excellent engineering school out in Soutfield, MI. Its a private institution and well respected IMO.

Yup, I went there.

 

[NesuD]

Originally posted by: YoungGun21
I know most people here claim to have gone to college (though I still don't believe a few of you!). No doubt you all looked into several different options. Recently, Kettering U. sent me an email and this place looks different. They do things a little different there, and it seems to be more based around real world experience rather than just classroom learning. You go to school 3 months, then work for 3 months, and then back to school, then work, etc. In theory, this program sounds like an incredibly good idea. I've searched all over their site and read up a bunch of stuff, but I'm still not totally convinced that there isn't a catch or something to this. Does anybody have some info on this place? Is the co-op program actually worth it? Pros/cons?

http://www.admissions.kettering.edu/

I will just ignore that back handed crap and give you the scoop on Kettering. Just so you know I grew up about a mile and a half from Kettering although back then it was called G.M.I (General Motors Institute). Kettering is a top shelf engineering school. My Father has a degree from there as well as several of My High school graduating class. Unless things have changed in recent years the standards are high and the course work challenging. The method of alternating classes and actual work for sponsoring company has been used since before I was born. It used to be that a company had to sponsor you to go there. can't say if it is still that way or not. Bottom line is that unless something had drastically changed in the last decade or so it is one of the best engineering schools in the country.

 

[ja1484]

lol lose because it's in Flint, MI.

 

[amish]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82


Plus we had tanks

that's great! did you know the builder?

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: NesuD

Originally posted by: YoungGun21
I know most people here claim to have gone to college (though I still don't believe a few of you!). No doubt you all looked into several different options. Recently, Kettering U. sent me an email and this place looks different. They do things a little different there, and it seems to be more based around real world experience rather than just classroom learning. You go to school 3 months, then work for 3 months, and then back to school, then work, etc. In theory, this program sounds like an incredibly good idea. I've searched all over their site and read up a bunch of stuff, but I'm still not totally convinced that there isn't a catch or something to this. Does anybody have some info on this place? Is the co-op program actually worth it? Pros/cons?

http://www.admissions.kettering.edu/

I will just ignore that back handed crap and give you the scoop on Kettering. Just so you know I grew up about a mile and a half from Kettering although back then it was called G.M.I (General Motors Institute). Kettering is a top shelf engineering school. My Father has a degree from there as well as several of My High school graduating class. Unless things have changed in recent years the standards are high and the course work challenging. The method of alternating classes and actual work for sponsoring company has been used since before I was born. It used to be that a company had to sponsor you to go there. can't say if it is still that way or not. Bottom line is that unless something had drastically changed in the last decade or so it is one of the best engineering schools in the country.

It's no longer required to have a co-op to get in the school, but you have to complete a certain number of terms in a work environment to graduate.

Originally posted by: amish

Originally posted by: iamwiz82


Plus we had tanks

that's great! did you know the builder?

No, that was completed after I graduated. I know the frat, though.

 

[YoungGun21]

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Northwestern?

Is $40k per year. That is more than my parents make combined. My dad is a retired police officer who now does part-time work; my mom has worked part-time for most of my life. My dad just got news that he didn't lose his job, but is receiving a pay-cut, so our income is going to be even lower. I'm planning on taking student loans to pay for college, but I don't want $150,000+ debt when I graduate in this wonderful economy we have now.

Funny story though, my cousin was offered a full tuition scholarship there and his parents made him turn it down. It was too far away from home I guess. Now he goes to UIUC though.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: YoungGun21
I know most people here claim to have gone to college (though I still don't believe a few of you!). No doubt you all looked into several different options. Recently, Kettering U. sent me an email and this place looks different. They do things a little different there, and it seems to be more based around real world experience rather than just classroom learning. You go to school 3 months, then work for 3 months, and then back to school, then work, etc. In theory, this program sounds like an incredibly good idea. I've searched all over their site and read up a bunch of stuff, but I'm still not totally convinced that there isn't a catch or something to this. Does anybody have some info on this place? Is the co-op program actually worth it? Pros/cons?

http://www.admissions.kettering.edu/

Wow. You've a lot to learn in the area of "social skills." Know what your post looks like? It looks like this:

I think you're all a bunch of lying, knuckle-dragging, grade school dropouts. But just in case you're not, tell me about this place.

Many of us are older than your parents and have more life experience in the little finger than you have in your entire know it all body. But that's OK...your ignorance is expected at your age.

You already seem to know it all. You and your bad self can Google your prospective college until you're happy.

i think a lot of people think this way about ATOTers. although i think its worse because some of you are college educated and still act that way.

 

[blinky8225]

Originally posted by: YoungGun21

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Northwestern?

Is $40k per year. That is more than my parents make combined. My dad is a retired police officer who now does part-time work; my mom has worked part-time for most of my life. My dad just got news that he didn't lose his job, but is receiving a pay-cut, so our income is going to be even lower. I'm planning on taking student loans to pay for college, but I don't want $150,000+ debt when I graduate in this wonderful economy we have now.

Funny story though, my cousin was offered a full tuition scholarship there and his parents made him turn it down. It was too far away from home I guess. Now he goes to UIUC though.

You don't actually pay $40,000 per year. If that is truly more than your dad and your mom make combined, I wouldn't be surprised if Northwestern gave you a free ride. I go to a similarly ranked institution and anyone who's parents make less than $60,000 per year they get to go for free--all grant money and no loans. My parents make ~$100,000 per year, and I still receive $25,000 per year in grant money. Northwestern guarantees that they will meet 100% of your financial need.

You should really try to become knowledgeable about financial aid. If you have the qualifications, you don't want to throw away an opportunity for a better education on a perceived inability to pay. Contrary to popular belief, elite private schools such as Ivies are pretty accommodating to the financial needs of students. They actually actively recruit such low-income students, and it would give you a leg up in admissions.