<p>Hi... Tell me if I need to add/remove anything? </p>
<p>-NY student
-Going for engineering
-Prefer smaller schools (but not limited to)
-No preference for area/cost</p>
<p>GPA: 3.6; Honors courses and 2 APs (English Lang. 4, Bio 3 :( (yeah, I know))
SAT: 2080 (CR: 680, M: 690, W: 710); retaking in Oct. and taking 2 subject tests in Nov.</p>
<p>Current college list:
-Carnegie Mellon
-Case Western
-Fordham? (not sure about engineering there)
-Rensselear
-RIT
-Santa Clara
-Unversity of Rochester
-USC?</p>
<p>Extras:
-Orch 4 yrs (violin 7 years)
-Piano (8 yrs)
-Fencing (started last year, plan to continue in college)
-Science team and club (2 yrs)
-Anime club (2 yrs) co-pres this year
-Chorus (3 yrs)</p>
<p>Background (probably unnecessary, haha):
Asian (Filipino, lived there for 4 years but born in US)
First gen american</p>
<p>I'd greatly appreciate more suggestions on where to apply, and help on safeties/reaches/matches?; I'm having trouble determining them... Thank you in advance!</p>
<p>If you like Carnegie, U of Pitt has a solid program and are known for giving merit to OOS. Not a small school, but Pitt has seperate dorms for Engineering majors and makes the department feel small. I think Pitt could be a good safety for your stats and a toss up financially depending upon if merit is offered.</p>
<p>Drexel in Philly would probably yield an acceptance with merit.</p>
<p>How about a LAC – Bucknkell, Lafayette or Lehigh in PA?</p>
<p>USC is a definite reach, especially for engineering which typically has higher stats than the rest of the university. it’s still worth applying if you want to attend though!</p>
<p>I second the suggestion to consider adding Bucknell, Lafayette or Lehigh. The first two are LACs with engineering, but Lehigh is consider a National University not at LAC, although still smaller than many of the schools on your list.</p>
<p>Your list is good, with a good range of selectivity levels. If you can raise your math SAT a bit, that would help you at the reachier schools. Which Subject Tests will you take? Many engineering programs want Math Level 2 and either Physics or Chem.</p>
<p>Thanks! So, I’ll be looking up Georgia tech,WPI, Rose, U of Pitt (didn’t know they had separate dorms for engineering), Drexel, and the LACs (interesting, I remember when I started my search I wanted to go to an LAC…). </p>
<p>Yeah, Carnegie and USC are what I expected would be reaches. Although I keep wondering, wouldn’t it be significantly harder to get into Cali schools at least just because of of OOS? Not sure how much of a difference it makes…</p>
<p>mom2collegekids, my parents are willing and able to, but merit would help</p>
<p>*GPA: 3.6; Honors courses and 2 APs (English Lang. 4, Bio 3 (yeah, I know))
SAT: 2080 (CR: 680, M: 690, W: 710); retaking in Oct. and taking 2 subject tests in Nov.</p>
<p>Current college list:
-Carnegie Mellon
-Case Western
-Fordham? (not sure about engineering there)
-Rensselear
-RIT
-Santa Clara
-Unversity of Rochester
-USC?</p>
<p>my parents are willing and able to, but merit would help
*</p>
<p>At the schools that you have listed, you’d likely be full pay for most because your stats aren’t merit-worthy for most of these schools. </p>
<p>If you want some merit money, you need to apply to a couple schools that will give it. Your post suggests that your parents are “willing” to pay but it would be a struggle so merit would help.</p>
<p>My parents and I understand that I’d most likely go full, and they’re more than capable, so I’m lucky enough to have cost be the least of my problems for the search. (Financial aid is really not a factor and I’m just trying to find somewhere (anywhere) I can be accepted that looks good)</p>
<p>Of course it would’ve been nice if my stats were better, but health problems have significantly affected my performance… I digress.</p>
<p>Thank you though, I’ll take it into consideration</p>