<p>to blueiguana: I am not going to sit here and calculate my own GPA. If it says a 3.917, which is really good, then I’m going with a 3.917. I do know if it is representative of my grades (which it is) without having to calculate it. But the suggestion is appreciated.</p>
<p>As a Georgia resident, you should include Georgia Tech in your application list.</p>
<p>If you and your parents can afford $30,000 to $35,000 per year, then some OOS publics may be within affordability range:</p>
<p>Virginia Tech
NC State
Stony Brook
Minnesota
Cal Poly SLO</p>
<p>If your price limit is lower, then you need to look at schools with good need aid or merit scholarships, or even lower list prices (e.g. SD State, SD Mines, NM Mines).</p>
<p>Neither RIT nor U Rochester have civil engineering majors.</p>
<p>*I live in Georgia right now, but I am originally from New York which is why I want to go to school in the north. That’s also why I am not exactly focusing on the cost of tuition and everything because I know that I am definitely going to be out of state which is automatically going to bump that price up.
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<p>Well, you only know that you’ll be going out of state if you know FOR SURE that your parents will pay the costs. If they won’t, and you don’t have your costs covered, then you won’t be going OOS. Money doesn’t go on trees, and YOU can only borrow the following amounts:</p>
<p>frosh 5500
soph 6500
jr 7500
sr 7500</p>
<p>So, unless you get super aid, have a naive and qualified co-signer, or your family will pay whatever the cost is, you can’t really be sure about going OOS. </p>
<p>Be sure to put Georgia Tech on your list. HOPE scholarship will pay much of the tuition.</p>
<p>Are you going to retest? With a 1320 Math +CR, that’s not high enough for substantial merit at most good schools with engineering.</p>
<p>@mamabear1234 - good catch! I am sometimes surprised that major engineering schools are often missing one of the most common majors such as civil or mechanical. I didn’t know about U.Rochester or RIT :-(</p>
<p>DesireeA, </p>
<p>I think you misunderstood the point… you NEED to know whether the GPA you are stating is weighted or unweighted. Some schools want UNweighted GPA, others want weighted GPA, and some want BOTH… so you SHOULD know.</p>
<p>If you don’t know, being mathematically inclined as you are, you SHOULD be able to figure it out.</p>
<p>Also, it is helpful for us, who you are asking to give you advice. There can be a significant difference between a 3.9 weighted versus weighted.</p>
<p>You guys have all given good suggestions, but please no more comments about money. I’m not naive, or stupid, or ignorant about the cost of going to college. I know what my situation is, I know what I can get, and I know what I can afford. I know that you guys are trying to help and I appreciate the advise, but I am just looking for suggestions on good schools for civil engineering, not all of the other comments implying that I don’t know what I am talking about because I said that I am not thinking about money. It’s not like I am not thinking about it at all. Of course it is on my mind, but the question was just for school that are academically good for civil engineering. And, to harvard<em>and</em>berkeley, I understand what you meant, and I am PERFECTLY CAPABLE of figuring the whole GPA thing out, but thanks for your concern.</p>
<p>If the program is ABET-accredited, then it is academically good for civil engineering.</p>
<p>Are you looking to work at a typical engineering consulting or government job? Or do you want to do research?</p>
<p>SUNY-Buffalo, UMass, Rutgers, NJIT</p>
<p>Here’s how it works. You come here and ask for advise from total strangers because theoretically we know something on this subject you don’t. You must agree with this or you wouldn’t be asking for advise here. You are asking for time to interact and help you, which as you can see people are more then happy to do. You asked specifically about safety schools and in the process state money is not a concern. We ask for clarification, can your patents pay full freight OOS? How much can they pay per year? We can not help you identify schools that meet your criteria without knowing. Again you push back. Don’t feel too bad, you’re not unique in this. Others do it too, however when you’re asking for advise and those that offer up help try to explain why they need specific information to help you, yet you continue to push back…well those people no longer help. </p>
<p>Regarding your original comment on your GPA, I was being kind in my wording but since you still don’t seem to understand. Your description of “my school doesn’t tell us all of that” makes you sound ignorant. An intelligent student knows how many AP classes they’ve taken, the weighting their school applies, the number of A’s vs Bs they’ve earned and when shown a number they can tell you weather it’s their weighted vs unweighted GPA without doing calculations by the time they’re entering their Sr year. It’s not rocket science. </p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>Dude, I’m not an idiot. For you to try and find some hidden message in my comment about my GPA and say I’m ignorant is ridiculous. I don’t know why you would expect me to go through the whole process of figuring that out within 5 seconds of you saying something about it. What I meant by my comment about my school that you clearly didn’t understand is that there is a whole process within the school to figure that out, it’s not just something that you can look on your latest report card for. You’re the only one that said something about that one little comment and read so deep into it.
As for my criteria for the school. The only criterion I said was a good school for civil engineering. That’s it! I didn’t say anything about money and I didn’t list any other criteria. All I asked for was a decent school for civil engineering. For the people that simply answered the question and made one little comment but let it go after seeing my reply, Thank You, your suggestions are greatly appreciated. For the people that tried to argue with me about all this other stuff that I did not ask for, next time, just try to answer the simple question that the person asked.</p>
<p>You can calculate your unweighted GPA pretty simply by taking an average of your grades on your report card. There is NOT “a whole process within the school to figure that out.” Perhaps your school has some complexities about how it does the weighting for the weighted GPA, but you should be able to figure out your unweighted GPA just by looking at your report cards.</p>
<p>All you had to say was 3.9 was my weighted (or unweighted) average… you refuse to answer, and give us all this hoo-ha about how we are not answering your question. </p>
<p>YOUR QUESTION WAS ABOUT SAFETY SCHOOLS. In order for us to help you, we need to know whether your GPA is weighted or unweighted because it makes a HUGE DIFFERENCE in determining whether a school is a safety for you are not.</p>
<p>If all you want is a list of civil engineering schools, you can easily do a google search. But you came here asking for specific advice on what would be a safety school for you, and we cannot answer that without more details on your GPA.</p>
<p>You need to stop being so defensive, take a deep breath, and realize that people here WANT TO HELP YOU if you would just let your guard down. We are asking you questions to get better info so that we can give you solid advice.</p>
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<p>[ABET</a> -](<a href=“http://www.abet.org%5DABET”>http://www.abet.org) would be a more focused search for civil engineering degree programs.</p>
<p>harvard, read post #7, OP doesn’t know. A better question to ask is how many Bs do you think you have. If you have one B then it’s unweighted GPA, but if you have many Bs and even Cs then it’s weighted GPA.</p>
<p>all right, thanks everyone for the suggestions, they were greatly appreciated!..except for harvard<em>and</em>berkeley -_-</p>
<p>Dr. Google,</p>
<p>Yes, I know she doesn’t know… which is exactly the point some of us were trying to make. It is kind of scary, actually, that computing one’s GPA is a mystery to someone who wants to be a civil engineer… would you want to drive over a bridge or under the tunnel of something designed by such an engineer?</p>
<p>Are you serious? I DIDN’T SAY THAT I COULDN’T DO IT. I DIDN’T IMPLY THAT IT WAS A MYSTERY TO ME. IN FACT, I SAID I AM COMPLETELY CAPABLE. WHAT I REALLY SAID WAS THAT I SIMPLY DIDN’T FEEL LIKE IT AND I DEFINITELY WASN’T GOING TO IMMEDIATELY GO DO IT JUST BECAUSE YOU SAID SOMETHING ABOUT IT. DO YOU UNDERSTAND???..and I am going to make damn good engineer, that’s an incredibly rude and uncalled for comment just because I didn’t agree with anything else you said.</p>
<p>[Clarkson</a> University: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering](<a href=“http://www.clarkson.edu/cee/index.html]Clarkson”>http://www.clarkson.edu/cee/index.html)</p>
<p>Take a look at Clarkson, you could probably get merit aid, especially since you are female and a URM… must like snow! 
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<p>We visited Clarkson and it seems like a really good school. I think they use merit awards to lure people into their wilderness environment 
It was too remote for my son but other than that he really liked it.</p>
<p>How about Syracuse U.?</p>
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<p>Don’t take it personally. A handful of people come onto every single thread for the sole purpose of delivering a financial smackdown, regardless - and perhaps especially - if that wasn’t the question. It’s not about you.</p>