Best Undergrad Aerospace Engineering Programs and acceptance?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi everyone,
First thank you early!
I am a senior in high school and I got a sat score of 1180 on my fourth retake, yes fourth( I started out at 1070).
I have a GPA of 3.57 out of 4 and am taking AP Physics C, AP Chemistry, College Speech, College Composition, and Calc 1 wth Analytic Geometry near the community college near me( my HS offers it but refused to move me up classes even if i got an A).
Schools I am Applying To(my rank of choice will be in parenthesis if admitted):
-Embry-Riddle(1)
-University of Illinois Urbana Champaign(2)
-University of Texas at Austin(3)
-Purdue West Lafayette(4)
-Texas A&M College Station(5)

I am having a dilemma of whether I will get accepted or rejected. I feel like most of these schools will reject me because of my SAT scores and I am truly a bad test taker but know everything. I try my hardest to learn and excel over grades but still focus on grades. I am passionate about going into something Aviation related and then I came upon Aerospace Engineering. I am confident I will try my best to exceed and my GPA is the way it is for high school because I really didn’t understand the point of certain classes and didn’t try freshman year.

Anyone have any thoughts on whether I will be able to get in our not to the schools above and rank their quality of education and degree value? Thank you!

also safety schools to apply to???

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What state are you from? You can’t be instate for all of these schools. OOS is expensive. This is the freshman profile for UIUC College of Engineering:

ACT Score: 32-35

SAT Score (no writing): 1430-1530

TOEFL: 106-113

GPA: 3.70-4.00

It would be a big reach.

The middle 50% SAT range for UT is 1250 – 1440 for out of state students for all programs( engineering likely higher). UT only takes 8% of their students from OOS.

I think many of the others would be in the same category.

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Need to know if that GPA is weighted or unweighted. And need to know what state you’re in. Also, keep an open mind about which field of engineering you want to study. AE is a very difficult field to get into, even as a top graduate from a big school. I can say that UT and Texas A&M are out of reach. Both schools select the vast majority of their engineering students as freshmen. Usually they’re in the top 5%. If you’re out of state, it’s far more competitive.

My advice, don’t get hung up on one school or group of schools, and don’t get hung up on one major. Keep an open mind. There’s lots of great schools to choose from.