I’ve been looking at Northwestern and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but I was wondering if there are other schools that are better for Chemical Engineering?
ACT score:32
SAT: 1340
GPA (unweighted): 4.0
GPA (weighted): 4.5
AP courses:
APWH (4) APUSH (5) APGOPO (4)
Calc BC (5, Underscore AB 5)
AP CHEM (4)
APLANG (5)
AP Stats (3)
ECs:
National Honor Society (11,12) just a member
Diversity Club (11,12) (discussion club on social matters)
Assistant Coach for Rhythmic Gymnastics
Volunteer at local hospital as guest services (11,12)
Are you looking for merit/FA?
Berkeley, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota also have highly ranked chemical engineering departments.
Cost constraints? State of residency?
If you are open to the northeast I will be attending Lehigh in the fall which has an amazing engineering program and RPI is also a fantastic school for engineering.
Due to ABET standardization you take similar classes no matter where you attend. If you go to an elite engineering program (Caltech, MIT, Stanford) you’ll stand out because everyone knows how selective admission is. Most other schools fall into a broad middle ground (pretty much any school that doesn’t accept 80% of its applicants) and how you’ll do in the job market depends on your grades in school and getting internships.
I suggest you widen your net to less selective schools instead of worrying about ‘better’. An SAT of 1340 puts you into the bottom 25% of UIUC admits for engineering according to their website. If you aced math and bombed english you might have a better chance.