Chance me for some northeast colleges for Engineering!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Chance me for mid atlantic/north eastern schools including: Pitt, PSU, CMU, Cornell, Michigan ann arbor, JHU, as well as UC Berkeley. If I have not mentioned any of the big names in upper tier engineering schools in the mid atlantic and northeast, please tell me about them and chance me at them!

9th: 3.17UW
10th: 3.87UW
11th: 3.87UW, 4.53W *will upward trend help?

Estimated Cum. UWGPA:3.7, WGPA:4.1

At graduation i will have taken these AP/dual enrollment classes: CHS (college in high school) statistics, AP Calc AB, CHS Anatomy and Physiology 1-2, APUSH, AP Chemistry, AP Calc BC, AP Biology, CHS Physics E&M.

SAT 1: M740, CR710, W700-9, may retake this fall to try to break 2200
SAT 2: Math 2-800, Chemistry-800

EC’s: golf team (not competitively good), Gifted (many competitions), chess competition, Academic league, Relay for life (cancer event), march for parks (park fundraising event), non formal tutoring of piers in STEM classes, NHS.

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Are you in state for any of these schools? If you’re a CA resident, you should be in great shape for Berkeley because they don’t look at freshman grades, so even if you’re out of state you should have a good chance. PSU and Pitt are safeties for you either way and you should also be set for Michigan if in-state (it’s probably a high-mid match if OOS). CMU is a match. Cornell and JHU are both probably very low reaches, but depending on your essays and things like leadership experiences you could easily have a chance to get in. You might also want to look into places like UIllinois (if you’re willing to go that far west, it’s a top ranked engineering program, probably a low match), Purdue (low match) or UPenn (low reach). I’m assuming from your list that you’re looking for a big research school rather than a small specialized engineering school. Good luck!

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I agree with nac7890.

Many of the big state schools recalculate GPA’s. I believe Carnegie Mellon also recalculates GPA’s after removing freshman year, all +'s and -'s from grades, and weighting. While most colleges should consider the upward trend, some big state schools read the applications so quickly that they might miss it if they don’t recalculate it like Carnegie Mellon or Berkeley. You might look for others that recalculate GPA’s without freshman year for all applicants. You might also write to admissions at schools that they are considering to ask how they consider high school freshman year grades.

I’d also consider Maryland, WPI, Olin, Waterloo, Toronto, GeorgiaTech, Case Western, RPI, Bucknell, Lafayette, Lehigh, and Northeastern. Those all seem like matches, some with a chance some of merit aid (Olin, WPI, Case, Lafayette, Northeastern). You can decide which if any you like. Olin may be more of a reach, as would be Cooper Union, Dartmouth, U Penn, Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and of course MIT.

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wow @nac7890 and @theorist , thank you guys so much for your responses!

So you both seem to think I will be a shoe in at my two local state schools, Pitt and PSU, which is very relieving.

@theorist , I will look into that nice list you gave me, but it looks like a great one!