Engineering ed help please

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I go to a very competitive private high school in New Jersey. Widowed parent my mom passed away in april because of cancer, income around 40k ish, first generation college student.</p>

<p>white male (double damn)</p>

<p>SAT I: 2020 690 CR, 630 Math, 700 Writing
SAT II: Haven't taken any yet but plan on doing math 1 (is math 2 basically required?), chem, and maybe lit/history (any preference for a third?)</p>

<p>I only have the october testing date for the sat 2s since the next one is after the ed date.</p>

<p>GPA: 3.8 something UW I did incredibly poor freshmen year and had to work instensely hard to get my grades up. I don't know if they'll see that but the self-improvement was immense</p>

<p>Rank: top 10</p>

<p>Junior year coursework: Honors English, Honors Chem, Honors Alg2/Trig, Ap US History, Honors Spanish 3, Religion (required)</p>

<p>four quarter grades and then year grade</p>

<p>Honors English- 97 97 99 98 98
Alg2 Trig Honors 95 94 96 95 95
AP USH- 99 99 99 99 99
Chemistry Honors 99 99 98 99 98
Spanish 3 Honors 96 97 97 96 95
Religion- 99 99 99 99 99</p>

<p>Senior year: AP Eng, Honors Physics, Ap Art History, Ap US History, Honors Precalc</p>

<p>My school only offers ap classes in English, Art History, US History, and Calc BC, so I'm taking all I am qualified for. I tried starting a US Gov AP and Euro Hist AP but the head of the department turned me down.</p>

<p>Taken 2 courses at a local community college, intro to philosophy (freshmen year- A-), sociology (sophomore year A), looking into another one now.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Academic Team- Captain</p>

<p>Robotics Team-builder and participant when we won the 2005 and 2006 state championships for FIRST (possible hook? Idk..)</p>

<p>New Jersey Regional Science Fair-participant</p>

<p>Spanish Honor Society- helped fundraise and tutored students</p>

<p>Model United Nations</p>

<p>NJ American Legion Boys State representative</p>

<p>Intermural Basketball League assistant coach/player</p>

<p>Chess team</p>

<p>Intermural Ultimate Frisbee League- Co-Founder, captain of a team, and player</p>

<p>American Cancer Society Relay for Life-helped organize and set up event, three years</p>

<p>Worked at Afterhours Formalwear</p>

<p>Awards:</p>

<p>· The Elmira College Key Award, 2006
· Excellence in Spanish 2 CP, 2004-2005
· Excellence in English 2 CP, 2004-2005
· Honorable Mention in Eastern Civilization CP, 2004-2005
· Excellence in English 3 Honors, 2005-2006
· Excellence in United History 1 Advanced Placement, 2005-2006
· Honorable Mention in Spanish 3 Honors, 2005-2006
· New Jersey Regional Science Fair Rutgers Student Award, 2005
· National Spanish Examination Certificate of Achievement and Merit¸ 2004-2005 and 2005-2006</p>

<p>Colleges I'm considering for civil engineering are (what are my chances for these):</p>

<p>Cornell/ Columbia Engineering College (early decisions, can I make it into either????)</p>

<p>Carnegie Mellon
Johns Hopkins
Notre Dame
University of Virginia</p>

<p>Northeastern</p>

<p>Thanks for any help guys I really appreciate this, college planning is driving me crazy since I have to do everything on my own.</p>

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<p>Cornell ED. You will get in.
try MIT, just for kicks and see what happens.</p>

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<p>have you looked into community colleges? However for you tacobell seems to be a slight reach.</p>

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<p>Cooldude: do you actually think I have a chance at cornell ed or is everyone in a joking mood.</p>

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<p>no, i was actually being serious. columbia is not worth the money, many ppl have told me. cornell is well worth it. and i believe u have the qualifications to get into Cornell ED. I bet u $100 that u will either get into ED, or get deferred and then accepted RD. and hopefully, i can get in RD too...so i will see you there...but that's not happening :(</p>

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<p>also, apply MIT if u get deferred. i think u might get in :)</p>

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<p>That's why I thought you were joking, because I know I wouldn't get into mit. The thign is I know my resume is alright, probably better than other people, but the only thing I lack is the extremely high sat. But will all my other stuff make up for the sat especially compared to someone with just high sats na dnot much ecs? (SAT scores were bothering me because my math isn't that high and they want it higher for engineering usually, but what does everyone else think?)</p>

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<p>Michigan????</p>

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<p>I just took a practice act test and got a composite of 29, if I score similar on an actual act test, meaning 28-30 would that be better for my chances than my current sat scores, or would it be comparable.</p>

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<p>Like you said, I would be concerned about your SAT math score for CMU, Cornell, Columbia, JHU, maybe even UVA. Civil is one of the easier engineering majors though, how about big state schools like PSU or OSU. Those schools typically are easier to get into and yet are still "ranked" better than the more prestigious schools in engineering.</p>

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<p>UIUC!!! Why is Illinois ignored on this forum? lol -one of best civeE programs in the nation (second to MIT I believe)
Also- 1310 - 1450 is the Middle 50% for Engineering so u should be great with those EC's</p>

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<p>I know UIUC is good for engineering but I really don't want to go that far.</p>

<p>Anyway how do my stats look for getting into Cooper Union?</p>

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<p>I'm going to bump this....</p>

<p>My main objective is ed at cornell. BTW I might be able to take ap chemistry next year....there should be enough kids if I want to do it...only thing...my schedule will be absolute hell:</p>

<p>honors physics
ap chemistry
honors precalc
ap english 4
ap art history
ap us history
religion (required)</p>

<p>Think I should try to take ap chem? Would it help my chances at all??</p>

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<p>I'm bumping to make clear that my main goal is ed Cornell, then regular Northeastern, Cooper Union, Rice, RPI, UC Berk and UCLA.</p>

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<p>Cornell engineering is much more competitive than its other colleges, though its ED acceptance rate was 40%, but the average SAT scores are high. Cooper Union is very very tough to get in. Northeastern and RPI should be no problem.</p>

<p>UC Berk and UCLA are reaches (OOS), and MIT is a major reach.</p>

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<p>I have no interest in MIT whatsoever, the other poster just mentioned it, not me. That's just my disclaimer haha.</p>

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<p>Let me preface my comment by saying that you have a good chance at all of the schools you listed. However, I think the top engineering schools will find it strange that your lowest grades and lowest SAT scores are in math, that you got recognized for excellence in most of your subjects except for math, and that you pursued humanities classes at your local college instead of math/engineering classes. If you're sure you want to be an engineer, more power to you. But are you sure?</p>

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<p>I completely understand your point. The community college classes were when I was interested in humanities (I did those for knowledge, I didn't even care about college then). I have been recognized by my school for those subjects...I realize that is funny. I have no interest at all in spanish yet I was good at it, same for english. I enjoy history though. As for why I haven't gotten any awards in math and science, the asnwer is that there are two people who really are math talented so that's why. As for science....I should have been given the award for chemistry...look at my grades....my teacher was upset that I didn't take ap chem that's why.</p>

<p>I guess the disparities in my grades is because I want to be an engineer, I just have an easy time with humanities. I don't really try, but I'm good at them. I have to try for math and science, I enjoy them, I am good at them, I wouldn't say I'm doing bad just because other classes are higher.</p>