Engineering Schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello! I'm a junior with a very strong interesting in engineering (thinking about chemical but still undecided about a specific field). I was wondering about my chances for my current list of schools.
-Harvey Mudd (favorite one so far, might apply ED if I love it after my visit)
-Carnegie Mellon
-Cornell
-UMich
-Wash U. at St. Louis
-Purdue
-UIUC
-Swarthmore
-WPI
-RPI
-Caltech (probably a reach, not sure if I'll apply)</p>

<p>Gender: M
Residency: NJ
IB Diploma Candidate
Junior Courseload: IB-HL/BC Calculus, IB-SL Chemistry, Honors Physics, IB English III, IB-SL French IV, AP USH II, IB-SL Econ
Senior Courseload: IB-HL Further Math, IB-HL Chem, IB-HL Physics, IB-SL Comp Sci, IB-HL English IV, IB-SL French V, AP Stat (might swap Comp Sci or Stat for IB-HL Euro HIstory)
GPA (UW): 3.91
GPA (W): 5.18-my school uses this instead of ranking
SAT (only took it once so far): 2200 (770 M, 730 W, 700 CR)
SAT Subjects: 770 Math II, 690 Bio M
EC: Chess Club (captain/part-time instructor)
Robotics Club (captain of my team, programmer in Robot C)
GSA (member, appointed Relay for Life team captain and fundraiser)
Star Trek Club (co-founder/president)
Science Olympiad
Math League
Science League
Fencing (2 years JV and occasional varsity alternate; will be varsity next season)
Peace Project (anti-bullying club)
School Theater Tech Crew (spotlight, sometimes curtains depending on the show)
Volunteer: Working at a school for children with cognitive disabilities (very fulfilling experience, will certainly include it in my essay)
Midnight Run (participant, donator, and partial organizer of my synagogue's Run the last 3 years)
Habitat for Humanity (participated at 3 different locations)
Other: Competitive Chess (frequent participant in rated events)
Currently conducting extensive research in rocketry for my IB Extended Essay, an extensive research paper which every IB Diploma candidate must write, including experimentation with Aerotech model rockets</p>

<p>Feedback would be really appreciated!</p>

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<p>Caltech is super competitive, so you may pretty much forget about that.</p>

<p>Cornell: low reach/high match
UMich: match/high match
UIUC: match/high match</p>

<p>Most of the other ones should be match perhaps with a or 2 exceptions. Besides these schools, you may consider UW at Madison and U Minnesota. They are great for Chemical Engineering. You have more than half the schools overlapped with my D and she is also interested in Chem E too. Are you going to take SAT2 Chem in June? If you have time, you may want to retake the SAT in Fall. Your SAT scores at 1470/2200 is right at the border line for top engineering schools.</p>

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<p>Actually, yeah I plan to take the Chem SAT II in June, and I probably will retake the SAT to bump up my reading score. Thank you!</p>

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<p>Harvey Mudd is a great school and you should stand a great chance at making it in. Only negative is that it is 62,000 a year.</p>

5

<p>Thanks! Wow, I knew it was expensive, but that’s quite a price tag!</p>

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<p>You have quite a few schools above $50k (including boarding) per year anyway.</p>

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<p>Yeah you have a point. Still, it is the most expensive school I’m looking at seriously, which might factor into whether or not I want to apply ED.</p>

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<p>If you are depending on financial aid, then ED is not for you.</p>