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Black, California, Large Public High School, Legacy Stanford and Yale. Looking for school urban/suburban, closed campus with a college feel(not integrated into city), decent minority student population, good engineering program. Thanks!
Reach Schools:
Stanford
Yale
UC Berkeley
UCLA
MIT
USC
Harvard
Princeton
Rice University
@gumbymom will give you the stats on UCSD, but for engineering, I expect that will be a reach too.
Being URM will help in admissions (with the exception of the UCs), as will Stanford and Yale legacy, but you need more targets and at least one affordable safety.
What is your budget, and home state?
For non-reach schools, take a look at George Washington, U Minnesota, CWRU, U Mass Amherst, Virginia Tech, U Rochester.
I was thinking Case and Pitt would be good match schools. Smaller cities but still very much urban. Drexel as a safety but you should have better safety options instate.
Pitt has a very urban feel, not like a closed-off campus. Same for GW.
Lehigh? One end of it bleeds a bit into the surrounding town but the other end is a more classic gothic campus (though not exactly typical…built literally on the side of a mountain!). Becoming much more diverse, though it has a reputation as a wealthy white school.
If you’d consider a large LAC with engineering, Lafayette.
Here are the admitted applicant stats for 2019. 2020 Stats will be available at the end of January/Early February next year. Engineering admits will have lower admit ranges and will have above mean GPA and test scores. The UC’s do not consider race/ethnicity in their admission decisions.
The UC’s are very GPA focused and since test score submission is being suspended for the Fall 2021 applicants, more emphasis will be on GPA, HS course rigor, personal insight essays and EC’s. You are very competitive applicant but so are all the
2019 Freshman admit rates for UC GPA of 3.80-4.19 capped weighted and not major specific:
UCB: 12%
UCLA: 7%
UCSD: 33%
UCSB: 32%
UCD: 47%
UCI: 35%
UCSC: 72%
UCR: 87%
UCM: 96%
2019 Freshman admit rates for UC GPA of 4.20 or above capped weighted and not major specific:
UCB: 38%
UCLA: 35%
UCSD: 71%
UCSB: 73%
UCD: 84%
UCI: 55%
UCSC: 85%
UCR: 97%
UCM: 98%
You definitely need some safety schools so if you are a CA resident, UC Riverside as a possible option and UCI as a Match school. I agree that you need to focus on more Match schools and remove some of the Reach schools unless you have an unlimited application budget. The application fees add up quickly.
@Mwfan1921 I live in Southern California and do not see the cost being an issue for my family, but I still need to have have a formal discussion with my parents.