Chances For Brown, Rice, Others!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’ve made a handful of chance me posts before but would like to get some other opinions please!

Demographics: Male, White, incoming senior, pretty competitive suburban IB high school, Nebraska

Majors: either mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or nuclear engineering

Academics:
*ACT: 35 Composite (35 English, 35 Math, 35 Reading, 36 Science), 36 superscore with another 36 Reading
*SAT: didn’t take
*PSAT: 1360, 204 Selection Index
*SAT subject tests: need to take Physics and Math II lmao (what scores should I am for??)
*Class rank: 25/589 (likely will go up after transcripts are updated post-summer school)
*GPA: 4.0 UW / 4.15 W (school doesn’t weigh honors classes, if that makes a difference)

Coursework:
*Freshman year: 2 honors, rest regular
*Sophomore year: 2 AP, Human Geography (5), Statistics (5), 1 honors, rest regular
*Junior year: 2 AP, Biology (4), Psychology (5), 2 honors, rest regular
*Senior year: AP Physics 1, AP Calc AB, AP Macro, AP Lang, rest regular

Awards:
*placing soloist at solo competitions
*kinda screwed up on the PSAT, maybe National Merit Commended???
*not much else smh

Extracurriculars: (I have a lot of music ECs, helpful or not for my major?)
*Marching Band (9-12, section leader)
*Concert Band (9-12)
*Jazz Band (9-12)
*Show Choir Band (11-12)
*Cross Country (12)
*Diversity Club (9-10,12)
*Private Music Lessons (4-12)
*All-State Orchestra (11)
*Pit Orchestra (11-12)
*Summer Job at Fast Food Restaurant
*Charitable Races
*NHS (11-12)
*Peer Tutoring (10-12)
*New Student Ambassador (10-12)
*Local Youth Orchestra (9-10, section leader 10th)

Schools:
Brown

Rice

Carnegie Mellon

Georgia Tech

UIUC

Kansas State

Iowa State

Minnesota-Twin Cities

Kentucky

Pitt

Alabama

UT-Austin

University of Florida

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Getting in to a school for engineering is very hard- it would depend heavily on your grades in math and hard science courses. ACT score is impressive for sure. IMO, SAT subject tests should be above 700 for intended engineering majors if you want to have a good shot.
I wouldn’t worry about the fact that you have music extracurriculars, because it is clearly something you are passionate about.
Brown, Georgia Tech, and Carnegie Mellon will be more reach schools, and other than that you seem to have a good mix of match and safety.

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Brown- Reach

Rice- Reach

Carnegie Mellon- Low reach

Georgia Tech- Low reach

UIUC- Safety

Kansas State- Safety

Iowa State- Safety

Minnesota-Twin Cities- Match

Kentucky- Safety

Pitt- Safety

Alabama- Safety

UT-Austin- Match

University of Florida- Safety

Get some more matches in there, but you look great!

Chance back? http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1905266-chance-me-for-uva-and-william-and-mary.html#latest

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Both Brown and Rice look like low reaches to me.