Hey guys, I am currently a high school senior applying for engineering/cs. Please provide me with any help/feedback on my chances for these universities. Thanks!
Demographics: Indian-American Female, MA Resident
Intended Major: Computer Science or Industrial Engineering
Academics: 33 ACT (35E 33M 32R 31S)
3.96 W GPA, around 3.5-6 unweighted
I come from a pretty competitive high school so keeping up a good GPA is quite difficult
6 APs (Calc AB, Macro, Micro, US History, Physics I, Chemistry), all other classes are Honors
Extracurriculars:
-Accomplished Indian classical dancer, I completed a Bharatanatyam Arangetram (4 hour long “graduation” solo dance performance), have organized numerous charity events/ choreographed dances for charities.
-Started my own business junior year, qualified for a global business competition, won over $5,500 in grants
-Concertmaster at school orchestra, 4 years of XC
-Have some college credit from an engineering course I took at UMass Amherst
-100+ volunteer hours at local food pantry and dance events
LORs are decent from science and english teacher (English is stellar, science is decent)
Purdue is a match. UMich is a reach for most OOS students but it will be more like an out of reach for you due to low uwGPA and average test score.
I’ll chance you only because I have a son with very similar stats from MA. He had started a couple of engineering clubs at school and had job experience coding at an engineering firm.
My child was accepted to Umass engineering (honors)
UWisconsin engineering
UMaryland (not accepted directly into engineering)
Northeastern (Nuin engineering)
Umich engineering (attending)
I think it more common to be accepted for engineering rather than computer science.
I’d guess you will be accepted to UMass, UWisconsin, Nuin Program (too many applicants from MA), Umaryland (but not for engineering), and UMich is a maybe with that unweighted GPA
Thanks for the responses! Does anyone know how much/if my chances would be improved by stellar essays for a reach school like UMich?
To be honest, the gap in uwGPA is too big for UMich CoE. Their admission average is 3.9. Together with a mediocre ACT score, it is very hard to overcome the weak GPA. Indeed, I know an in state student with ACT 33 and uwGPA 3.8 got rejected from CoE 3 years ago even he attended one of the feeder school in town.
Bill, a 33 ACT is not mediocre. It is a fantastic score that places you in something like the top 3% of test takers. (I know a 30 ACT Composite puts you in the top 6% which is why I’m guessing it is 3%)
sunflowerlover, I think what Bill means by my ACT score being mediocre is that it is average (around the 50 percent mark) for the Michigan Engineering applicant pool, so it won’t help me much with admissions.
Exactly. Although ACT 33 is the 97th percentile national wide, it is only the admission average of CoE. It does not help the low GPA.