Chance Me: Virginia Tech Engineering

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am an aspiring engineering student and being able to attend Virginia Tech's engineering school has been a dream of mine. I just need help finding out whether or not I even have a chance of getting in (not deferred). I applied Early Decision on November 1st. Here are my stats: </p>

<p>GPA (weighted): 4.23
Class Rank: 32/460 (Top 10%) </p>

<p>SAT (superscore): 1930
Reading-650
Math-630
Verbal-650 </p>

<p>9th Grade Courses:
Geometry - A+
Earth Science Honors - A-
Pre Ap World History (honors) - B
Honors English - A-
German 3 - A-
Orchestra - A+</p>

<p>10th Grade Courses:
English Honors - A+
Algebra 2/ Trig (honors) - A-
Biology Honors- A
Chemistry- A+
German 4 Honors- B+
Orchestra- A+
PEER (no grade) </p>

<p>11th Grade Courses:
AP Language/Composition - A-
AP Biology- A
Math Analysis (Honors Pre Calculus)- A
German 5 Honors- A-
US & VA History- A+
Economics- A-
Personal Finance- A
Orchestra- A+</p>

<p>In the summer going into my senior year, I attended the Governor's School for Agriculture at Virginia Tech </p>

<p>12th Grade Courses:
AP Chemistry
AP Calculus
AP Statistics
AP Literature
AP German
Physics
US & VA Government
Teacher's Assistant </p>

<p>Awards/Honors:
Governor’s School For Agriculture at Virginia Tech </p>

<p>•2014 Summer Attended Governor’s School for a month where I was a part of the Animal Science major
•Wrote a research paper on the use of GMOs in developing countries to alleviate world hunger
•Presented my research at Virginia Tech’s Graduate Center to a panel of judges </p>

<p>Girl Scouts-Silver Award</p>

<p>•January 2011 Co-Led a Stop Hunger Now event at a local church where we recruited volunteers to package food to send to various countries around the world
•Packaged enough food to feed over 200,000 people around the globe </p>

<p>Delta Epsilon Phi- German Honorary
•2012-present Granted this honor to be a part of the German honorary society for maintaining a high average in the class.</p>

<p>Certificate of Special Recognition-Academic Letter</p>

<p>•2012-2013 School Year (Sophomore Year) Recognized in the yearly ceremony for obtaining a cumulative grade point average above 4.0
•2013-2014 School Year (Junior Year) Recognized in the yearly ceremony for maintaining a cumulative grade point average above 4.0</p>

<p>Honor Roll</p>

<p>Certificate of Achievement of Becoming a PEER Helper </p>

<p>Club Membership/Leadership/Activities: </p>

<p>National Honor Society
• Committee Leader </p>

<p>Science National Honor Society</p>

<p>German Club
•President </p>

<p>UNICEF</p>

<p>Global Ambassador’s Club
•Committee Leader</p>

<p>Chamber Orchestra</p>

<p>Girl Scouts
•Level: Ambassador
•Active member for 10 years</p>

<p>Acolyte & Sunday School Teacher at my local church for over 10 years </p>

<p>Loudoun Soccer </p>

<p>Varsity Track & Field </p>

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<p>Also, I forgot to mention that I am female. I am unsure if that puts me at somewhat of an advantage?</p>

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<p>I think you have very good chances according to the stats of VT, i would say your SAT math score is weak for engineering though.</p>

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<p>Thank you for your response! Would you say this is a low reach? </p>

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<p>I’d say high match slightly more than low reach, but it’d be a solid match if the math score was about 30-40 points higher.</p>

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<p>I agree that math is potentially a problem for Eng, but you still have a viable chance. Also, I know a girl who was in Gov’s School at VT, too, and she didn’t get in last year. It didn’t seem to help with average scores. Just FYI, in VT’s cds report for 2014, a 630 Math is the minimum in the 25th percentile of the enrolled students (which does not mean you would be denied automatically, BTW). Also, for the enrolled, a GPA of 4.22 is AVERAGE, and you are on the safe side of that, and they do want people like you to keep the GPA stats strong. But, you can imagine that Eng stats are on the high side of those averages.</p>

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<p>OMG, I apologize profusely. I pulled the wrong numbers, and VT’s are much lower and attainable. The numbers I gave above are for UVa not VT!!! Sorry! </p>

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<p>I think you’re a match. My son was accepted last year for ENG and I think you have better scores and GPA. He was also awarded merit aid. He chose to attend another school.</p>

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<p>@PERplexD‌ Did your son get in Early Decision? or did he apply regular? </p>

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<p>Regular. Sorry, I missed that bit of info on yours. Even if you don’t get ED you might get defferred to Regular. Good luck!</p>