Hi, guys.
So I’ll be a senior in the next school year and I’m really worried about my chances for getting into a good engineering college. When I started my freshman year, I started off really well, but I let my ego get in the way and ended the year with a cumulative GPA of 2.98. I did extremely poor in my first semester of sophomore year, but got good grades 2nd semester (7 Bs, 1 A), so my cumulative GPA from both years is 2.935. Now I’m a junior and my junior year GPA is 3.95 (if I maintain all As in my current classes till the end of the year, which I’m sure I will). I’m working really hard this year to get my GPA up. If I keep this up, my overall GPA will go up to 3.4. I haven’t taken any AP classes and have only taken 2-3 honors classes so far.
This is my schedule for next year:
World Literature
AP Physics 1
AP Government
AP Human Geography
AP Statistics (I’ll be able to drop Stats and take AP Calc. AB instead if I pass the Pre-calc course at the local community college this summer.)
Honors Spanish 3
Guitar 2
Economics
This is my current schedule
American Literature - 89.25%
Honors US History - 97%
Pre-Calc - 98%
Honors Physics - 92%
PLTW POE - 98%
Honors Spanish 2 - 97%
The rest are gym and lunch, and gym doesn’t count towards GPA.
I haven’t taken the ACT or the SAT, but I’m taking the ACT on April 19th and the SAT Math 2 in June.
ECs:
Math Team. I might be the captain next year, but it depends. I’ll be starting community service in a hospital in the summer. Math Team is the only thing I’ve done, and I started participating in it during my sophomore year.
I gave up my hopes on MIT and Stanford after freshman year, so these are the state colleges I’m looking at:
-University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
-University of Illinois Chicago
-Northern Illinois University
-Eastern Illinois University
-University of Maryland, College Park
-Purdue
-University of Minnesota Twin Cities
-University of Michigan Ann Arbor
-Michigan State University
-If possible, UC Berkeley
Like I said, if I do well junior year, my overall GPA will be 3.4, and if I do well in the classes senior year, it’ll go up to at least 4.1 or 4.2. I’m also confident about the ACT and the SAT math 2. So is there still a chance for me to get into a good engineering/physics school? All of the universities listed above have good physics as well as engineering programs. If it helps, I want to major in aerospace engineering and quantum physics/astrophysics.
Sorry about the length.
Thanks!