Chances for a female considering engineering schools?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi! I'm a rising senior and I'm looking into engineering schools from the list I have. Looking at it, I feel like I have way too many reaches and not good matches and safeties. Can you give me some suggestions? </p>

<p>SAT:
superscore: 2250 (800M, 690V, 760W)
SAT II: 720 Chem (took it before taking AP, big mistake), Math II 800, 800 Chinese
GPA: 4.44 Weighted, 3.81 UW
Rank: top 10%, school doesn't rank
Gender: Female, but I'm Asian, would me being female still carry much weight?</p>

<p>AP's:
Chem: A-, (5)
Comp Sci: A-, (Comp Sci A -5)
Econ: A, (Macro-4, Micro-5)
Chinese-5</p>

<p>APs to take senior year:
BC Calc, Stat, Bio, US History</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
-Sci team captain (we've won regional twice and go to states)
-Summer research on biochemistry (junior year)
-Summer intern at prestigious bio company doing website stuff (senior year)
-Math team member
-NHS member
-Student Leadership Council member
-Some 200 hrs of volunteering
-15hr/week of work during school year
-Intern at state house summer before sophomore year
-Was one of the 11 ppl in my school who made the AMC cutoff to AIME (I think I had a score somewhere between 4 and 6)</p>

<p>My school is a good public school and many people get accepted to top tier schools each year</p>

<p>List of schools I'm looking at (school of engineering for all universities):
Reaches:
-Cornell
-UMich
-Harvey Mudd
-Carnegie Mellon
-Northwestern
-Columbia </p>

<p>Match/Safety:
-NYU (prob not applying to engineering school tho)
-BU (again not to engineering)
-Rensallaer
-Union (dunno, this was at counselor's suggestion)</p>

<p>So, chances? Thanks!</p>

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<p>How about Olin? Caltech? MIT? UC Berkeley (are you instate) ? (Hehe, sorry these aren't exactly safeties, but they're good schools to look into)</p>

<p>Case Western. Oberlin. Purdue.</p>

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<p>I honestly do not believe that your gender will decrease your chances of admissions to a top-notch engineering school, it may even help since some schools have special programs for women. On the other hand, being Asian might actually hurt you since Asians tend to be overrepresented at top engineering schools.</p>

<p>I am a male Asian Biomedical Engineer at Johns Hopkins, and all your stats are in the same range as mine. Many of my friends at MIT/Harvard, etc had around the same scores and basically the same activities, although I don't know the details of your high school. Don't be so tough on yourself. You will likely get into many of your "reach" schools, so you should consider the schools mathwiz mentioned.</p>

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<p>Thanks!
Mathwiz--I'm not from CA so I'm not really considering the UC's. I'm from MA, so I don't think that'd do any good for MIT or Olin. I'm also not that excited about the workload at those schools, though Mudd is the same from what I hear.
Joshuwaliu--I didn't think my stats are anything above average; I didn't win any prestigious awards of anything. </p>

<p>Anyone else?</p>

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<p>You aren't considering MIT? That is really good- if you plan to go into engineering. You have good chances at all. My friend [Vietnamese female] got accepted into MIT with a 2060, awesome EC's, and a 4.0 UW and I think around a 4.5 W. So, you'd have good chances at MIT.</p>

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I'm from MA, so I don't think that'd do any good for MIT or Olin.

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<p>Well, that's not exactly a disadvantage. Can't hurt to apply, unless you know you don't like the pace.</p>

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<p>if you weren't asian it would be a cakewalk</p>