Chances/Suggestions?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’m a white male junior from St. Paul, MN. I want to go into engineering, most likely mechanical
Large Private High School
GPA: 3.79
ACT Composite: 34
English: 33
Math: 32
Reading:34
Science:35
School does not rank

APs: Chemistry, US History, US Government, going to take Physics and Calc AB

Extracurriculars:
Robotics (captain for 2 years)
Mock Trial (captain)
Boy Scouts (Life Scout)
Bowling Team
JV Soccer sophomore and junior year
Stage Crew
JROTC
Tenor Sax in Band, Bari Sax in Jazz Band, Pit Orchestra for 2 Musicals

So far I’ve looked at Northwestern, UW Madison, Notre Dame, University of Minnesota, will be looking at SLU, Wash U, Purdue, Rose Hulman next week. I’m also considering a few others. I’m just curious of my chances and if I’m looking at the right places. If you have any info on schools I should consider that would also be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

P.S. Also please let me know if I’ve missed any key numbers or statistics that would help.

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Places I’d reccomend:

Reaches:
Columbia
Carnegie Mellon
Berkeley
Cornell

Matches:
Georgia Tech
Michigan
USC

Safeties:
UMn
UW

Diversify that list a little bit, supplement it with wherever you like, but all of those are great schools, especially for engineering. I think you’re a solid applicant, although your GPA may be a little on the low end for a lot of top places. Good luck.

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Carnegie Mellon and Harvey Mudd also have great engineering programs that are worth looking into. Both would either be low reaches or high matches.