(I have taken 10 APS out of the 14 available at my school)
GPA: UW: 3.85/ UC GPA: 4.14
Senior Year Course Load: Ap Calc AB (self studying BC), AP U.S Gov. and Politics, AP Research, AP Spanish,
Regular: Chem, Bio, English 12,
SAT 2: Physics: 740 Math II: 720 Math I: 700
Extracurricular activities:
-4 years Varsity soccer (co-captain for one year)
-4 years Varsity volleyball
-Student government: Vice President 11th grade, Class President 10th Grade, Senior Webmaster 12th grade
-Cofounder of a very creative community service project. It is sort of a business that contributes to my community.
-Cofounder of school website (Currently webmaster)
-Bodybuilding for 4 years (Natural national competitor) Found a fitness club at my school
-Manager at a motel (2 yr summer job)
Awards:
-4 years Honors
-Ap Scholar with Distinction
-3rd place and 2nd place at regional volleyball championship
-1st place and 2nd place world language competition (Spanish Category)
Essays:
Common APP/ UC 2nd prompt: 9/10
Supps: 7-9/10
Recommendations:
Both teachers know me very well. I am very close with them.
For Purdue, your SAT 1830 is right below their 25th percentile for Engineering while your GPA is fine. It would be a low reach for you.
Same case for Virginia Tech (CR+M Mid 50 of admitted student was 1230-1380 in 2014).
UMich would be a high reach (out of the range). You need 300+ higher score for that.
@billcsho Virginia Tech said on their website that the middle 50 for the class of 2019 was 1160-1340 (CR+Math). OP is in the bottom (basically) of the middle 50%. So shouldn’t VT be a Match (or a High Match at worst)?
Also, my bad on my chancing for Purdue. I agree with what you said. I forgot that Purdue has data about admission stats for engineering on their CoE website.
@QuiteAverage90 Most engineering school admission stat can be found at ASEE.org. The info you found on VT’s web site is for the whole school, not just for engineering (which is what OP is asking).
Also note that majority of the students are from in state. OOS applicants would need higher stat. For that Berkeley show the separated average SAT for in state, OOS, and international on their website. http://admissions.berkeley.edu/studentprofile
Last, the 25th percentile of composite score is higher than the summation of individual section 25th percentile score. A student with lower score in one section would have higher score in the other section to be admitted.
You’re an international student, California’s priority is in admitting California kids, so your scores have to be better than the average student: see this link on the 2015 admitted student profile for averages: http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/ucla/freshman-profile/
You’ll notice the SAT scores of admitted freshman this past fall. You are under that number.
(Also, those scores include admitted recruited and very talented athletes, as well as local area SES low-income HS students. So unless you are a recruited football/gymnast star, or are from a Central Los Angeles school, your current SAT shows you as being non-competitive for the UC’s.)
For the UC’s, uw GPA and SAT scores are king.
Then, if the UC’s are on the fence about you, they look at your EC’s and residence.
The UC’s are California PUBLIC universities (funded by residents who pay local and state taxes). The priority and intent for the UC’s is to educate local California residents. A while ago it included making a secondary public education affordable for its residents. The alumni of California schools have built a great reputation for the UC’s so, the system receives hundreds of thousands of applications each year but only so many slots are available.
In your case, your SAT scores are not above average, you are not a California resident (so your parents have not contributed to the taxes of the state) and, although you’ll be paying full fees, the legislature of California is under extreme political pressure to increase the numbers of instate residents accepted to UC’s.
This means space will be very limited to OOS and international students and your rates are increasing to an additional 8% on top of the fees of $55K per year.