<p>Hi, </p>
<p>I am looking for colleges to apply for in electrical engineering. Right now, I am considering schools such as Berkeley, UCLA, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, UT Austin, and Purdue. </p>
<p>I was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions to make to this list? Also, I was wondering if there was anything beneficial in applying to schools where engineering isn't really the main major at that college, like Columbia or Penn or Duke?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>UMD and UM.</p>
<p>Look for ABET accreditation in your field. And run the Net Price Calculators for each. OOS costs are usually very high with little financial aid.</p>
<p>The ECE program at Cornell is really excellent and rigorous. Hard work but a wonderful experience.</p>
<p>ABET-accredited EE programs:</p>
<p><a href=“http://main.abet.org/aps/Accreditedprogramsearch.aspx”>http://main.abet.org/aps/Accreditedprogramsearch.aspx</a></p>
<p>OP, the colleges on your list are well known top EE programs. Smart pe</p>
<p>Without knowing anything about YOU, there isn’t much anybody can do to help YOU. </p>
<p><a href=“Before you ask which colleges to apply to, please consider - College Search & Selection - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1621234-before-you-ask-which-colleges-to-apply-to-please-consider-p1.html</a></p>
<p>What are your stats?</p>
<p>What is your home state?</p>
<p>How much will your parents pay each year?</p>
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Since I don’t have any major extra cirriculars towards science, how much of an impact will that make?</p>
<p>Objective:
• SAT I (breakdown): 2330 (800 M, 730 CR, 800 W)
• ACT (breakdown): N/A
• SAT II : 800 Math II, Chem 770, Physics 790
• GPA: 4.00 unweighted so far
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1 (school ranks on unweighted GPA, there are a lot of kids with 4.0)
• AP (place score in parentheses): World History (4), Lit (3), Calc AB (5), Comp Sci (5), Physics C Mechanics (self study this year) (5)
• IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Chem, AP Lang, AP Macroecon, AP Gov, AP Calc BC, Multimedia
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none
Subjective:</p>
<p>• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Baseball (2 Yrs JV, 1 yr Varsity) with Most Valuable Sophomore Award, Key Club Member for 3 years (over 100 hours), Little League Baseball Coach(over 50 hours), Science Olympiad (1 Year), Volunteer at local science museum (over 70 hours)
• Job/Work Experience: none
• Volunteer/Community Service: see ECs
• Summer Activities: Went to Boston RISE this summer to research in field of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Essays: I hope to make these good lol
• Teacher Recommendations: IDK yet</p>
<p>Other</p>
<p>• State (if domestic applicant): CA
• Country (if international applicant): N/A
• School Type: Public
• Ethnicity: Asian
• Gender: M
• Income Bracket: 100,000
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nope</p>
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<p>If you haven’t asked your parents how much they will pay, do so. </p>
<p>Thanks for your guys’ inputs. I probably should’ve posted my stats before, but I was just asking generally about any colleges that have strong electrical engineering programs. I discussed with the parents and we decided that money shouldn’t be that big of a concern if the college I’m going to has a strong engineering program.</p>
<p>Thanks @frugaldoctor and @collegehelp. Does anybody have any other colleges in mind?</p>
<p>Well, do you really think your parents are willing to pay $53K/year for UT? I would mention that number to them.</p>
<p>Unless your parents have a lot in savings, it would be VERY difficult for a family that earns $100k to pay $55k+ per year for college. That would be about 2/3 of their net income. </p>
<p>When you talked to your parents did you mention how expensive these schools are…what I mean is…did you only mention tuition or did you mention the total cost of attendance (tuition, fees, room, board, books, etc?). For instance, UCLA would be about $53k per year. </p>