Chance a B+ student for engineering! East Coast!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Can you guys chance me realistically and give me an estimate on how much financial aid I might receive? I know I'm not the most amazing student, but hey, not everyone can be perfect.</p>

<p>GPA- 3.4 UW
SAT- 1920
SAT II- Biology 670, History 710
AP- Biology 5, History 4, Environmental 5
Rank: Top 20%</p>

<p>EC- Violin [12 years]
High school orchestra [4 yrs]
Symphony at Connecticut College [3 yrs]
Tennis [4 yrs]
Key Club [1 yr]
Academic Decathlon [1 yr]
Hospital volunteering [80 hours]
Random misc volunteering</p>

<p>How do colleges verify how many hours of volunteering you have done? I've done a lot of random stuff which I never formally recorded. Is this based on the honor system?</p>

<p>My EC's are SOOO GENERIC. I DON'T EVEN FIND THEM NOTEWORTHY OTHER THAN THE SYMPHONY AT CONNECTICUT COLLEGE (since it's a top liberal arts college)</p>

<p>I'm planning on doing engineering.
UConn (in-state safety)
Rutgers
Northeastern
Drexel
Pittsburg
Trinity College? (They got a $150 mil dollar grant this year! But it's located in the ghetto)</p>

<p>Trinity College is part of the "little ivies" and has a very good engineering program. But should I even consider them if it's in the ghetto? You step out of the small campus and you feel afraid.</p>

<p>HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU THINK I WILL GET WITH MY STATS? I'm most worried about this. I have middle grades and I live in the middle class. I can make the payments but it'll be hard on my family...</p>

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<p>i want to do engineering in college as well, and my stats are VERY similar to yours. my instate safety is Rutgers NB and most likely i ll end up there. i think you have a pretty good chance for UConn, Rutgers, don’t know about the other ones. have you considered Penn State Uni Park?</p>

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<p>Penn state uni park is even harder. The stats are just messed up because of it’s lower ranked satellite schools.</p>

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<p>Im pretty sure each Penn State campus has its own stats. Whatever you see for UniPark is what was recorded.</p>

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<p>I’m hoping Drexel. If I know the dean of engineering do you think I can get some “influence” from him? I don’t know haha. You know how some rich people have connections?? I actually know him. I used to go to his church, I’ve been to his house, I’ve gone on vacations with his family…</p>

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<p>Knowing the dean is not the same as donating libraries haha.</p>

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<p>If the Dean of the College of Engineering writes you a favorable letter of recommendation, that as substantial influence on admissions.</p>

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<p>Satellite campuses are ranked separately.</p>

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<p>Before your consider Penn State, look for a recent thread on the engineering forum. I believe it was titled ‘How Penn State lost a student.’. Lost as in the definition of not returning. It wasn’t on our list, but it confirmed how we feel their students are treated.</p>

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<p>Trinity, Northeastern and Pitt are the most selective schools on your list based on their common data sets, but they all have similar admissions statistics, and you’d likely get in to all of them. Based on reports around here, your scores are average for Pitt, and GPA below average, so you may not going to get any merit awards from Pitt, but you’ll get need based aid as appropriate. Pitt does seem to like out-of-state students though so who knows. I’ve honestly never heard of Trinity and I’m from Pennsylvania, so I would think it has a very regionalized name. What was Trinity’s grant for? All of the other institutions on their list routinely have combined research grants and/or endowments that dwarf that amount. I.e., Pitt just [spent</a> $100 million](<a href=“http://www.engr.pitt.edu/transformation/index.html]spent”>http://www.engr.pitt.edu/transformation/index.html) on an upgrade to their engineering facilities alone. If you don’t like its location, then I would cross it off your list.</p>

<p>Btw, in case you do apply, Pittsburgh is spelled with an h.</p>