<p>I just got deferred from University of Michigan engineering so I need to figure out what to do now. </p>
<p>What I am looking for:
-Obviously a great engineering school, but preferably a good business program as well.
- Great social atmosphere
- well rounded in all areas </p>
<p>My stats:
GPA: 3.71
ACT: 32 (32 math, 34 reading, 33 english, 30 science)
EC: Track and field, swimming, cross country, model UN, synchronized swim club, swing dance club, NHS, lots of additional volunteering including a fundraiser I created
Work experience: 2 years as a lifeguard
Awards: I won an international engineering competition, nominee for boys state, quite a few local awards
Letters of rec: all my teachers like me and the letters I already have are really good
Hook: I am designing a 3D printer and am creating a website </p>
<p>Schools I am considering applying to: Northwestern, Cornell, Purdue, UIUC, Rice</p>
<p>Any suggestions on the schools I listed or ideas any of you may have would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Is there any chance though? From what I am aware I have a shot just because they have a holistic process. More opinions on anybody about the other schools would be nice too!</p>
<p>If you don’t have any safeties or matches, if you have no place to go right now, it’s time to get real. Your choices are reaches or low reaches. You need matches and safeties.</p>
<p>The suggestions that have been made are good ones. But you have to be certain also that your family can afford any school to which you now apply. You can add Bucknell, Drexel, UMD, OSU, Lafayette, ASU, Penn State, Alabama, Colorado, Delaware. There are many others. Good luck.</p>
<p>I have CU as a safety already, and Purdue and UIUC should both be matches, if not high safeties. Or am I wrong about those? That is just kind of an assumption I made based on application data</p>
<p>No, you can’t consider UIUC a safety – at least, not a pure safety as described on this site, where you’re absolutely guaranteed admission (as well as a few other factors, including it being absolutely affordable). UIUC’s College of Engineering has higher admission standards than the school overall – I’ve seen 31-34 for its 25-75% ACT numbers. I’d say you’re “likely” to get in, but that doesn’t make it a safety. Purdue is somewhat easier to get in to – perhaps you’re “very likely” there (which technically doesn’t make it a safety either). Other similar schools that may be more safeties are Minnesota and Iowa State – maybe Wisconsin, although it’s probably at the same level as Purdue. It might be good to have a school like that on your list “just in case”. Although it sounds like you’re a senior and are applying now, so you’ve got to move quickly (the early deadlines for most of these places has passed).</p>
<p>That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t apply to reaches as well, you just want to try to cover all your bases. Your ACT score is right around the 50% point for a lot of schools – but unfortunately, those school are already hard to get into.</p>
<p>Is your listed 3.71 GPA weighted or unweighted? Unweighted it’s good. If that’s weighted, though, it means your unweighted GPA isn’t so great.</p>
but I have an upward grade trend… My current GPA is around a 4.4</p>