@eaglesalex I don’t think that anyone would look at your transcript and think you’re either unqualified or lazy. Being an athlete/scholar like you are requires enormous amounts of self discipline and hard work. What might happen is that you are admitted to the university and then admitted to the college of engineering after a good freshman year.
I know that you want to go to a decent engineering school and I like your ambition (BTW GTech is 5th in the US for CE, more of a top school rather than decent
) but the reality for many engineering students is affordability. What is your home state? Georgia? It may be that a BS at Morehouse in say Computer Science and then a graduate degree at GTech (which your employer might pay for - cross fingers) makes the most sense financially.
You might be interested in cyber security or forensics or information retrieval in Computer Science more than hardware design of Computer Engineering. It’s hard to know exactly what direction to go in but visit the colleges and sit in on classes. Engineering is a practical field. Name won’t be as important as performance.
You need to run the NPC for each college to see what the financial aid package could be. Just for kicks, I reviewed the CS curriculum at Morehouse. Looks solid but if you went there because it made the most financial sense, I would consider the National Student Exchange program which would allow to to go to one of hundreds of universities in the US where you could take specialized CS classes.