<p>Do engineering schools generally look at just math and science scores? Basically, my situation is that I've always been very good at math. I've taken tons of math competition tests throughout high school. I won the AMC 12 at my school and took the AIME. I've won state in geometry and statistics. I'm taking 3 sciences my senior year (along with history, eng, and calc bc) and I'm really interested in engineering or math majors. However, my english and history grades are not anything special, and my overall gpa is 3.78 unweighted.</p>
<p>Do schools like duke, berkeley, or even ivies admit their engineering students based on overall stats like normal students, or do they heavily weight math and science scores in lieu of extra-currics and other grades?</p>
<p>I think that's pretty standard when it comes to engineering. Most of the engineering majors i've seen at my college are very poor at English for instance. Some of the papers they've written look like they were done by an elementary student due to poor grammar, sentence structure, etc.</p>
<p>Depends on the school. Most schools do look at your what courses you took. I know Berkeley had several requirements when I applied it such as how high my AP scores were in Calculus BC (They wanted a 5), Physics (5 as well i think), and Chemistry (Oddly, they only wanted a 4 here even though I got a 5). Same on your SAT, your math scores are more important in the admission process as an engineering major than your English.</p>
<p>I'm going to be a freshman in engineering next year and i feel that i'm very well rounded in every subject. My english teacher's have told me many times that i should be an author. History has always been interesting to me. Science and math have always been interesting as well. I feel that while i'm truly outstanding in no subject, my balance between the subjects is better than just being able to do math and science well. How did my university look at that? I don't know...but they accepted me :-P.</p>