<p>I'm an OK student at my school and have a 3.7 GPA with honor courses.
I have a 29 ACT and 1730 SAT
I play varsity sports since sophmore but never good enough to be the top guy... (XC, XCski, Track)
I volunteer a fair amount and is in 1 club (amnesty international)</p>
<p>I'm planning on going into engineering, probably mechanical.
What do you think the best school for me is?</p>
<p>PS.- I hear it's bad to be asian and have bad grades?
I am half korean and half japanese and was an immigrant from 4th grade n my parents didn't go to college.</p>
<p>What state are you from and how much can your family afford to spend?</p>
<p>I don’t know my financial status right now, but probabaly less than 35k per year?
Right now I’m looking at Georgia Tech and UMich, but my mom wants me to stay closer to NY.</p>
<p>Clemson has a GREAT engineering program!</p>
<p>Definitely check them out…it’s hard saying that seeing as I’m a Carolina fan!</p>
<p>Also, Penn State. I am NY resident</p>
<p>review this, </p>
<p><a href=“Login - www.usna.com”>US Naval Academy Alumni Association & Foundation - www.usna.com;
<p>then research each university to find the ones that your SAT would fit in the middle 50%</p>
<p>Think really hard about going to a smaller instead of a larger school like Penn State. At SUNY Buffalo, the intro physics and pre-engineering courses can be 180+ students. You are a number, and no one cares if you fall through the cracks. You will get more personal attention and help at a place with smaller classes - even if you have to go somewhere small with a pre-engineering program and transfer after 2 years to a bigger school (the first 2 years are pretty much the same for everyone).</p>
<p>Rochester Institute of Technology
Clarkson
SUNY Buffalo</p>
<p>Eh, race doesn’t matter. I’m Asian American too, had a GPA of 3.1 and SAT of 2010 and I was accepted to the engineering programs at Purdue, Virginia Tech, Clemson, Pittsburgh, UMass and Northeastern so don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>That being said, I recommend Purdue, Virginia Tech, Clemson, and Pittsburgh. I visited all of those schools and I loved all of them. Purdue’s a top 10 engineering school but it’s not hard to get into (you gotta work hard to not flunk out though!). Pittsburgh is in a nice city. Clemson and Virginia Tech are in rural areas but the love for their school that students show is among no other. I’m currently at Clemson majoring in civil engineering. Let me know if you have any questions about Clemson!</p>