<p>Hey guys, I'm an international applicant in my senior year, I just wanted to get an idea of my chances at engineering in the following schools:
Georgia tech
NYU poly
BU
Utexas at Austin(civil not petroleum)
The UC's
SAT: Cr:590 M:750 W: 500(sucks I know)
Doing the ib program with math and physics at higher level(rigorous curriculum)
Don't need financial aid</p>
<p>GPA?
SAT alone, almost all the schools are reaches except for UC Riverside and Merced</p>
<p>Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe one is required to have a 3.4 gpa in order to be eligible for admission.</p>
<p>Swiftyfan13x
My school doesn’t tell us our gpa, our grades are over a 100. My avg is 87/100, keep in mind however all my courses are weighted (ib courses)
Also 1340/1600 is a reach for nyu poly and BU?
Is penn state atleast a meet?</p>
<p>NYU Poly: It doesn’t exist as NYU Poly anymore. I believe you have to get into NYU now?</p>
<p>GATech: Your CR is really low! Try to bump it up then apply :)</p>
<p>Thanks ThatGuyOverThere
So it’s NYU engineering now? But the poly website is still open, does this make it harder to get in? </p>
<p>Any good schools I should consider? Safety schools?</p>
<p>I don’t know ; It’s hard to say but Poly website does tell you to apply through NYU.</p>
<p>What engineering?</p>
<p>Civil/Petroleum?</p>
<p>VTech? PSU? </p>
<p>SUNYSB/ SUNYBuff/Binghampton(They’re decent)</p>
<p>Avg sat scores for NYU poly 2012 were cr: 550-650 and m: 640-720<br>
I’ll def consider penn state and Syracuse also BU since I have a brother doing engineering there and a cousin who graduated from engineering there, if that means anything to them.
Thanks for the input ThatGuyOverThere</p>
<p>If you bump your CR up to 630-650 and Writing to 560-630, most of these schools will become a lot easier :). Test scores aren’t everything though so don’t stress out over them!</p>
<p>Keep up the grades and the EC’s</p>
<p>I just checked online and supposedly a B+ is a 4.3 weighted gpa, since all my courses are weighted then I suppose my gpa is around this… Does this improve my chances significantly?</p>
<p>Colleges don’t take weighted GPA. Your GPA is 3.3.</p>
<p>You are an international student with a very low SAT score and GPA… it will be really hard for you to compete with other international applicants.</p>
<p>@Spirral
I don’t know where you get your information from but your wrong, it depends on the university some consider weighted and some don’t, even if they don’t they consider the rigor of your curriculum and since ib courses are even harder than AP I’m pretty sure my GPA won’t be calculated like that</p>
<p>[How</a> to Convert Your GPA to a 4.0 Scale](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>How to Convert (Calculate) Your GPA to a 4.0 Scale – BigFuture)</p>
<p>I converted your GPA through collegeboard’s system. IB courses are not harder than AP…</p>
<p><em>Edit</em> I am taking IB Econ atm and that class is a joke.</p>
<p>@Spirral
Your basing your judgement of ib on one human sciences course? I’m not taking an ib course, I’m a diploma student which is different. Take the ib diploma with math higher level then talk</p>
<p>No need to be so angry… I am just trying to say that using IB courses(Diploma? More than half of my friends are doing IB diploma and they all say that IB courses’ rigorousness is just about the same as AP courses) as an excuse for such low GPA is not going to work. Taking IB courses don’t make you stand out among thousands of applicants who are doing same thing as you are.</p>
<p>Spirral</p>
<p>Turns out my school grades really harshly compared to American schools, no one gets averages above 90-92 the entire school, last year we had a student with a 90 get into Yale, one with 89 get into Upenn and another with 87 get into rice… These are the only ones I know of that got into great schools.
Oh and just an update 41 IB predicted… Puts nyu poly well within my reach… Considering most stern applicants get in with a 39-40 predicted.
SAT 2 math 770… Retaking for an 800 along with physics</p>
<p>Oh and I wasn’t giving any excuses.</p>