Why so harsh? He is top 2% and has a 31, above average for some of his matches.
Just an update, rejected EDII at vanderbilt, accepted usf, ucf, uf
Congratulations ! Did you get honors college anywhere ?
@MYOS1634 yeh, honors college at both usf and ucf, and i submitted my application for the honors college at uf. I’m waiting on decisions on tufts, usc, bc, and emory. Reaches I know, but maybe on the off-chance that they accept me. 
Then everything’s good you can’t have a bad choice. Congratulations !
My D is an IB diploma grad but I’m not sure it was a leg up in the Northeast schools. Check out Boston University for a possible reach school. Clark University in Worcester, MA would be a good match, as would Providence College (RI). Honestly, I don’t know if any of them have engineering though.