Engineering Schools that will accept a gpa of 3.85 & SAT of 1400

College Search & Selection
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I am hoping to pursue electrical engineering

I am having a hard time finding “target” schools because many schools do not publish the gpa of freshmen, who gain admission into their engineering college.

Little bit about me:
Asian
Does violin and robotics
sat of 1400
UW gpa 3.85
top 10% of class

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Marquette University ?

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Purdue

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CAL POLY POMONA

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I would think the majority of engineering schools would accept you. And you don’t specifically have to go to an engineering school. A lot of schools that aren’t engineering schools have very good departments of engineering, e.g., state flagships.

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What state are you in? For most states your state flagship would be a very good first place to look. In quite a few states the state #2 school is very good also. If you are in California then there are multiple state schools to consider (but the top 2 in CA would be reaches with your stats).

There are a lot of very good EE programs, and you should be able to find a good one with your stats.

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State of residency and cost constraints?

Lots of colleges will admit a HS applicant with a 3.85 unweighted GPA and 1400 SAT score to their EE major (or admit to the college or division with no significant barriers to declaring the EE major later).

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Purdue definitely will.

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Just in case anyone stumbles across this post and wants an answer:

I retook the SAT got a 1440 (720 & 720)
Math 2 SAT: 730
Physics SAT: 680

Rejected: Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Yale, Harvard, UPenn, Brown, UCLA, Rice, WUSTL

Waitlisted: Harvey Mudd, UCSD, UC Berkley

Accepted: Purdue, Case Western, Drexel, Northeastern, UCSC, UC Davis, UCI, UCSB, USC

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Congratulations! Thank you for returning and posting your results. It really helps the juniors on the list who are just trying to come up with a college application list. Please post the school that you select when you make that choice.

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Congratulations on your acceptances! You have some great choices!

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Wow case and NU. Tough admits this year and the red of the list too!

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Second follow up:: I chose Purdue because when I visited I had the “it feels like home feeling” & it was ranked the highest on US News ranks. I got into their honors college.

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Boiler up!