Anyone get into a great school without many of extracurriculars?

Applying to College
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<p>I'm currently a student at a small university (University of North Alabama). I already transferred from a community college after staying 65ish hours there. Now I'm working on a computer science degree.</p>

<p>I'm going to try to transfer into the best possible engineering school. Money won't be an issue this time. However, I'm worried that coming from a no-name school in the south will hurt my chances of getting in anywhere good. Also, I have not won any competitions or awards. I was lazy in high school, and fed up with where I lived. I never had anyone to encourage me to do anything interesting or motivate me to do science experiments at home or whatever. I just wanted to play video games and get a job one day.</p>

<p>The one extracurricular I did do:
I spend one week (spring break) volunteering in Louisiana for habitat for humanity. I did this during my time at UNA.</p>

<p>Honor societies I'm in: None. Did get invited into phi kappa phi or something, but I wasn't interested. Still not.</p>

<p>Scholarships I get:
Semi-guaranteed transfer scholarship by UNA</p>

<p>Scores:
High school GPA: 4.0
ACT: 28
SAT: N/A
Community college GPA after 65 hours: 3.9
Current Total Hours: 100-110 (can't remember)
Current GPA including community college: 3.81
Predicted hours by graduation: 130-135
Predicted GPA by graduation: 3.7+</p>

<p>Schools I plan to apply to:
Michigan Ann Arbor
Illinois Urbana Champaign
Texas A&M
University California Davis
GIT
UT Vanderbilt
Arizona State University</p>

<p>Note: I am aware that transferring into engineering programs is a special case. I am looking into the prerequisites (math, science) as well as I can. I should have Calculus III and advanced linear equations before I graduate, as well as chemistry 1, biology 1 & 2, and calculus-based physics 1 & 2. I will not be able to meet Illinois' college-level foreign language requirement at this point, but I will try to CLEP Spanish (so they know I'm willing/able to do it) and include a letter of why I didn't meet the requirement. I know Michigan requires differential equations, but this is still up in the air for me.</p>

<p>So, anyone get into a great school with stats like the above? Maybe I need to lower the bar a bit? :)</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>I don’t think ECs are particularly important to engineering schools unless they’re related to engineering. The best thing to do would be research or internships, that sort of thing.</p>

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<p>ECs aren’t important to most schools except about the top 20 schools in the country. Most other colleges make decisions based on stats and in the case of public schools, state of residence.</p>