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<p>bwoods96 I hope by this date you do have an engineering option that works for you and your financials. </p>
<p>Hindsight is 20-20, but realizing how the SAT and ACT ‘translates’ and putting best foot forward to various schools.</p>
<p>In some ways limiting applications can save money, but has to be done cautiously because given ‘safeties’ vary from year to year on quality of applications and other admission standards. Sounds like you had also not researched enough of the engineering programs within your in-state options and what could be affordable OOS. Where the OOS programs with good scholarships for engineering and what it takes to get those scholarships.</p>
<p>If you had been aware (much earlier) of the measure the standardized testing has with weighing in with admission to particular schools and also into the CoE, also some of the automatic scholarships with SAT/ACT you might have tested better with time for preparation. </p>
<p>You are not alone in missing deadlines for scholarships. I know a student who mixed up the application deadline and scholarship deadline (thinking he could apply later than he could) - the school application on-line only took about 15 minutes too! He has high stats and now cannot receive the automatic scholarships (full tuition, $2500 a year engineering scholarship) at the school he wanted to attend - his mom told me he probably will attend another in-state engineering program where he can commute…he could have had full tuition scholarship there too with his stats, but of course if his application wasn’t in by the deadline… He was finishing his Eagle Scout project first semester of his senior year and did not focus on the college priorities (which realistically was only putting in a brief amount of application time on-line).</p>
<p>Unfortunately your time is running out and you are scrambling. I do feel badly for you. mom2ck has been trying to give you helpful advice. I imagine you have been a bit tired and frustrated because you have drive and you believe you have what it takes. (Don’t lose your entrepreneur dreams, but focus on the important steps to get you ME degree first).</p>
<p>My daughter took Calculus AB as a junior, so of course some of the earlier math was not recent. She had to do a lot of prep classes (began with baseline testing at the end of her sophomore year of HS, just like her older sister), practice testing and tutoring to raise her ACT to presidential scholarship level. Senior year she took statistics because her school did not go further with calculus and we did not want to dual enroll with a local college - in part because she needed to get the ACT up to better scholarship level. Her unwted gpa is 4.0 and wted is 4.2 and that was working at school. She has a fair amount of natural ability, but her college prep school requires a lot of work by the students to achieve the grades. We focused on the in-state option that was her #1 school choice.</p>
<p>Please let us know where you will be going and how things are working out. It will also help other students out there that are currently juniors - I know you would want to step back in time so you could have put your best foot forward and created better opportunities for yourself.</p>
<p>Re the student above who missed two scholarships he would have earned automatically: if the family’s not wealthy, it may be useful for him to take a gap year. Think of the thousands dollars saved!</p>
<p>I doubt that this student will take a gap year, but if to achieve a particular school’s scholarship - care in following their requirements to qualify.</p>