Objective Material:
Weighted GPA
9th: 3.18 - no weighted credit as an underclassmen, I had primarily accelerated courses.
10th: 3.83 - Honors precalc and dual enrollment Statistics, and other accelerated classes, but no weighting for underclassmen
11th: 4.53 - AP Calc AB, APUSH, AP Chem, Dual enrollment A&P 1-2, Honors physics (mechanics), rest are college prep courses.
12th: estimated 4.53 - AP Calc BC, AP English lang, AP Biology, Dual enrollment physics E&M, rest are college prep courses.
Unweighted GPA
9th: 3.18
10th: 3.83
11th: 3.87
12th: estimated 3.87
SAT 1
Math: 740
CR: 710
Writing: 700-9
SAT 2
Chemistry: 800
Math 2: 800
Subjective material:
NHS
March for parks
Relay for life
worked at golf course
Tutor classmates informally
Shadowing experience with orthopedic surgeon (used in common app essay)
CHANCES:
Pittsburgh University
Pennsylvania State University + Honors college
Carnegie Mellon University
Johns Hopkins University
University of California Berkeley
Cornell
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
*If you have any match schools to recommend, preferably in the mid atlantic, please include them in your chances.
Where is your home state?
Pennsylvania, about 45 minutes from Pitt and CMU.
For UMich CoE, your GPA is below admission average while your SAT is right below the average too. Hopefully your course rigor and school profile report would help your GPA. Your CR+M is not bad, just the overall composite got buried within the mid 50 (2040-2280 for UMich overall). The overall admission rate of UMich went down from 32% to 26% this year. The admission rate for CoE would be near 20% (27% last year), and even lower for OOS. So it would be a low reach to reach for you. For UIUC, your intended major would be critical for chancing.
@billcsho the mid 50% for Umich is 1910-2210, where is your data coming from?
OP, @billcsho is correct. The acceptance to the COE of the elite state schools like UMich requires much better credentials than what is mentioned for the whole school. As an example, take the stats for UIUC COE…
http://admissions.illinois.edu/Apply/Freshman/profile
mid ACT - 31-34 [full school 27-32]
SAT - 1400 - 1520 [full school 1320-1470]
Edit : I forgot to add that as an OOS student, your credentials to the COEs of these state schools have to be in the top 25 percentile for a favorable chance of acceptance.
I see, so would I be a match at Mich and UIUC?
First you should look up the official 2015 admitted student profile st umich.edu. The number you get is either not admission stat or way outdated. Second. for school with low admission rate, having scores/GPA within the mid 50 would not make it a match.
http://admissions.umich.edu/apply/freshmen-applicants/student-profile
@i023575 is correct that the admission stat for CoE is even higher, but the 2015 data is not out yet. The mid 50 ACT has been 31-34 for the last few year (vs 29-33 to 30-33 for the whole UMich in the same period of time) with admission average GPA of 3.9. These numbers have been the same for UIUC engineering overall, but actual data varies with major at UIUC.
Note that the admission average GPA of 3.9 at UIUC and UMich is unweighted.