Can anyone suggest some engineering schools that I should apply to based on my stats?

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<p>Hey so I am a white male from an extremely competitive public school in northern VA looking to major in engineering. </p>

<p>CAN ANYONE OFFER ME SCHOOLS I SHOULD APPLY TO BASED ON MY STATS... Like maybe a few matches, safeties, and a few reaches. </p>

<p>My gpa weighted is 4.31 (as of end of junior year) top five percent 10/277. I have straight A's except one B in calculus. To make up for it I decided to take calc BC at the community college over the summer and got an A. My gpa at NOVA community college as a result is a 4.0. I will take multivariable senior year. By my senior year I will have taken 9-10 APs. </p>

<p>I have mediocre ap exams... All 3's except I got a 2 on calc Ab (not putting this on application) got really sick... I will probably not list any as these are optional admissions factors and for all they know I didn't take any. </p>

<p>ACT:I took the ACT five Times and showed tremendous improvements having raised it 10 points and it consistently rose after each date.
My best single date was my final time with a 33 (35 math 35 English 29 reading and 31 science. I got a nine in my essay for a 32 combined English writing. ^this was in a single date and NOT superscored. </p>

<p>I am confident this 35 math will really help with engineering schools acceptances </p>

<p>I got a 770 math SAT 2 and 690 US history. (take these again to get another 750+).</p>

<p>My extracurricular activities are very good...</p>

<p>Soon to be eagle Scout and had numerous leadership positions in Troop, Co founder of a nonprofit organization that has a 501c3, VP of school model UN, tennis team number one seed and captain (obviously varsity), won a regional tournament, varsity school chess team which took third at States, 2nd in school tournament, magnum cum laude on national Latin 4 exam, 2nd at the regional science and engineering fair, Latin and math honor societies, nhs, math tutor, 4-H took third in lambs at county fair, over 500 service hours in high school and received presidential gold and silver awards, member of a youth advisory council dedicated to helping teens in county overcome oppressing issues, and I am sure that I forgot at few but those are the main ones.</p>

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<p>What can your family afford? The obvious recommendation is Virginia Tech. Being from NOVA puts you at a disadvantage for UVA.</p>

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<p>Hm. Do you think I can get in UVA? I would much prefer UVA to VT</p>

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<p>VT has more extensive engineering options. For UVA it’s really a crapshoot. Too many top students from TJ and other NOVA schools want to go to UVA, and the college has to spread acceptances all over the state.</p>

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<p>Not cool. They should just accept whose most qualified</p>

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<p>Who are most qualified? Based strictly on test scores, GPA, etc., UVA probably has more people applying than they can accept.</p>

<p>Is your issue with VT a personal preference? Because their engineering program is pretty good.</p>

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<p>UVA shouldn’t take into account what part of VA applicants are from. Rather they should accept the person with the higher stats. </p>

<p>I do prefer UVA. First of all, the school is more prestigious. My sister goes there and it’s good. VT my mom tells me does not care about failing people. They have weed out classes that kill your gpa. UVA engineering isn’t so much number crunching.</p>

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<p>Your stats will get your application a serious looking-at from pretty much any school you apply to. I’d suggest to apply wherever you like under the stipulation that you can afford it.</p>

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<p>All of engineering weeds out; it doesn’t matter where it is. If you’re worried about that engineering may not be the best choice.</p>

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<p>^I don’t intend on getting weeded out as I have always been very strong at math. I just think VT is all number crunching and doesn’t care so much about gpa. UVA actually has an extremely high pass rate whereas VT fails out a large number of people. Also, even if they don’t fail their gpas are lower than other people in other engineering schools.</p>

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<p>Would you go out of state? Georgia Tech is one of the best engineering schools in the country. & with your stats would make you a competitive applicant for the best schools in the country like MIT, stanford, ivy leagues etc</p>

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<p>Percentage of undergrads in top 10% of their high school
VT: 44%
UVa: 93%</p>

<p>It might just be that a lot of the students VT accepts just aren’t ready for the course load, but you’d probably be ok at either school.</p>

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<p>Great responses. Do you think I could possibly get instate tuition to GA Tech?</p>

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<p>Go to the GT web site and look at their scholarships. As I recall they do have some for OOS but don’t just award in-state rates. Their scholarships are competitive.</p>

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<p>I highly doubt that you could get a scholarship at GT. You’re a white male from a nearby state. Your stats are average for the school.</p>

<p>GT uses its merit to target students that it wants to have to help with its numbers…more very high stats students, more URMs, more females, more students from distant states. </p>

<p>That said, I was shocked when a Kansas female, Val of her class, ACT 35, eng’g major got ZILCH from GT. I thought she’d get something.</p>

<p>Yes, all STEM majors weed. Your mom is misunderstanding the process. It is a GOOD thing for schools to heavily weed in those frosh/soph classes that STEM and premeds take. The students at UVA are stronger to begin with, so comparisons aren’t fair.</p>

<p>it would be wrong for a school to just “pass kids along” with phony grades when they don’t have what it takes to do well in the upper division classes of those majors. The school is doing the kids a favor by letting them know early on that they aren’t strong enough academically for the major that they’ve chosen. </p>

<p>Imagine how awful it would be if schools gave away a bunch of A’s and B’s in those Bio, Gen Chem, Ochem, Physics and Calc classes to students who didn’t deserve those grades, and then they get to be juniors and seniors and can’t pass their classes??? It would be very late for those kids to suddenly chooose another major and career path. </p>

<p>No, it’s charitable to let these kids know early on that they’re not strong enough.</p>

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<p>Im from OOS and I met with the financial aid dept during my tour day and he told me that I could have in state tuition after a year since my family owns a house in georgia and that could be my new home address. Im not sure exactly how it works but that’s what the guy told me when I met with him. So maybe if your family has a house in GA or if you have family in GA you could use that as your new residence? </p>

<p>That being said they do have a presidential scholarship program that would really help with costs. You are automatically considered when you apply by Nov 15th (their EA date) and your scores are really good so you might have a shot. Around 150 students each year are chosen</p>

<p>Also, they have a campus in France called GT at Lorraine that you may study at that is just another campus of GT (sort of like UNC at chapel hill vs UNC at wilmington) and when studying in France you pay in state tuition so that might help. </p>

<p>Another notable part of GT is there Co-op program. It is REALLY good and getting a co-op would help you combat some of the costs of tuition.</p>

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<p>iOOS and I met with the financial aid dept during my tour day and he told me that I could have in state tuition after a year since my family owns a house in georgia and that could be my new home address</p>

<p>Do not TRUST that unless GT will put that in WRITING now! Do not trust what some FA person tells you.</p>

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<p>I agree with Mom2CK. GT has a pretty clearly outlined policy for residency.
[GT</a> Catalog : Financial : General : Classification of Students for Tuition Purposes](<a href=“http://www.catalog.gatech.edu/financial/general/classification.php]GT”>http://www.catalog.gatech.edu/financial/general/classification.php)</p>

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<p>Both UVa and VT are good for engineering. VT is building a brand new engineering building-the Signature Engineering Building. Both have good career services departments and job placement. I would not let your mother and sister sway you with any negative Virginia Tech comments. Check it out for yourself.</p>

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<p>More info re: your state schools. VT is ranked #15 and UVa is ranked #36 in undergraduate engineering by USNWR. UVa’s average SAT’s are higher (1407 to 1297) but VT’s program is much bigger . The average UVa student will have been a stronger student in HS but there are also plenty of very strong students in VT engineering. Average HS GPA is over 4.0. The weaker students will have trouble making it at either school.
[Engineering</a> Facts | <a href=“http://www.eng.vt.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.eng.vt.edu](<a href=“http://www.eng.vt.edu/signaturebuilding/facts]Engineering”>http://www.eng.vt.edu/signaturebuilding/facts)</a>
[U.Va&lt;/a&gt;. Engineering Facts At A Glance](<a href=“http://www.seas.virginia.edu/about/facts/]U.Va”>http://www.seas.virginia.edu/about/facts/)</p>