CIT chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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First, I’m a white female planning on going into engineering. I’m waffling between chemical, mechanical engineering, and possibly materials engineering. I’m visiting both chemical and materials departments when I visit in a week.

GPA: 3.7642/4 UW 4.7740/5.30
SAT Superscore: 1500 (710 R, 790 M) I got a 17 on the essay, which I should retake but I’m not. Taking it again in August and I’m working to improve reading and math.
Subject Tests: 800 Math II, 770 Chem 680 US History

AP Exams (all 5s): Stats, Calc BC, Chem, Us History

For the most part I’ve taken all H and AP classes except this past year I dropped to A English. I got B+ in History the past two years and in English last year. (The rest were As) I also have 6 credits from PLTW to Rochester Institute of Technology.

Senior Courses: Multi Variate Calc H, AP Physics C, AP Lit, AP Econ, AP Human Geo, AP Spanish Language(I’ve taken Spanish for 4 years), Holocaust and Genocide H, Ceramics 2

I think I’m top 10% of my class of 560. This hasn’t been released and I’m not supposed to know, but I’m just guessing. My school only gives percentiles.

Clubs-
PEER Leaders (2 years)
Red Cross Club (president this year and Secretary last year) (3 years)
INTERACT Community Service (4 years Secretary last year and co-president this year)
NHS (1 year- thats all my school offers)
World Language Honor Society-2 years

EC
-Piano-8 years
-Girl Scouts-13 years (bronze and silver awards earned. Working on Gold (focussing on STEM))

I’m visiting Carnegie and interviewing in a few weeks.

What are some other good engineering schools in the Northeast/ Midatlantic where my grades and ECs fit? Thank you!

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Being female will definitely help you at CMU. Their acceptance rate for women is twice that for men, so you probably have a very good chance. Your scores are fantastic, so congratulations!

While you’re at CMU, head down Forbes Ave. about a mile and check out Pitt. They have a fantastic engineering program as well. You didn’t mention where you live, and Pitt’s OOS tuition is pretty steep, but you may qualify for some good merit scholarships there.

CMU doesn’t offer much for merit scholarships, but they should be getting pretty generous with need-based grants. They won a $250M intellectual property case last year and the majority of alumni (myself included) indicated that we would like to see that money focused on making the school more affordable.

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@shortnuke Thank you! I live in New Jersey, so the instate admission will not do too much for me. But, I do have a twin sister which should help with the financial aid. What did you major in when you were there?

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@Pianomonster20 I started out in Architecture and switched to Civil Engineering after my sophomore year.

Assuming you’re driving to CMU, I’d also take a look at Villanova, Penn, and Penn State. You probably already know this, but all have great Engineering programs (as does Rutgers from what I understand, but I’m sure you’ve already considered them).

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@shortnuke Yes, I’m driving out there. I think my dad wants to do the driving as quickly as possible, but I’ll see what happens and I am looking at Rutgers.

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@shortnuke do you know what happened to that donation? Bc financial aid has kind of been a flop and I really want to attend