<p>I am international student looking for engineering program to transfer after my junior year from a liberal art college. Please help me by roughly predicting the admission result for the following schools:
1 Texas A&M University
2 Purdue University
3 Georgia Tech
4 Tulane University
5 Baylor University
6 University of Texas Austin
7 Washington University in St. Louis
8 Columbia University
9 Cornell University
10 Stanford University</p>
<p>My information and qualifications are as follow:
Status: International student
Credit Earned before transfer: approximately 100 credits after Junior Year
GPA: 3.8/4.0 Cumulative 3.9/4.0 major
Academic Standing in Current school: pretty good, dean list student, and 10% percent.
Interest: Mechanical Engineering
ECs: Fairly good, been a student government representative, VP of international association, and active member of academic related clubs such as Sigma Pi Sigma, Kappa Mu Esplon
Work Experience: Some internship experience in Engineering production and designing
Financial Ability: Poor, looking for financial assistance.</p>
<p>I have a few more questions.
1. How do those engineering school overview the grade the class that are not science and math. (because for those classes, I am just average)
2. Any suggestion on any other schools? I am not very smart to get into Ivy, but looking for some program that is well recognized in Engineering.
3. Any school that has engineering and can provide more than half to full of its total cost.</p>
<p>If you are considering Purdue University, I also suggest that you apply to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It has an excellent (top 5) Engineering program, and you should be able to get in. For your school choices, here are their rankings in Engineering:</p>
<p>For junior transfers, the colleges typically have a minimum GPA (overall; that is where your non-math/science courses count) and a minimum GPA (for math, science courses required for engineering) that you need to meet to apply. You also have to meet minimum course requirements including in math and science and general education (you need to go to each college's site to learn those because it varies among the colleges). Whether you then actually get in depends on number of openings and the pool of transfer applicants. You appear to have a very good chance for a number of your schools on the list although your ivies and Stanford are very selective. I agree with the above that you might want to add Illinois, and possibly even Michigan and Carnegie Mellon. As to scholarships, none have any particular ones earmarked for international students who are transfering although you may be able to apply for some that the schools have generally for upperclassmen, or, as to state schools, available to anyone that is out-of-state; however, those are competitive. Those colleges have their scholarship information on their websites.</p>
<p>Thank you Drusba.. I heard that some state schools do have a special program for international who has good GPA qualification that they allow them to pay only instate Tuition. For example IPFW has such program eventhough they do not mention on their websource. I am not sure which other school does? It definitely will help me if i can find such school.</p>
<p>There are private colleges with engineering programs that will offer international transfer students partial tuition scholarships or waivers(e.g., Florida Institute of Technology), and public colleges that will give a grant or waiver so that you pay in-state tutition (e.g., University of New Mexico and New Mexico School of Technology and Mines) that depend almost exclusively on your GPA. Nevertheless, what you are likely to find is that the higher ranked a college is the less likely it will have such programs. I have not found a list of such colleges so you more or less have to go searching college by college although it might be possible that such programs may pop up in a scholarship search at the Fine-aid site or princeton review's scholarship search pages.</p>
<p>Thank. It does really help me find more direction. I would be appreciate if sombody in CC could provide me a list of some state schools that offer waiver or some private institutes that have partial scholarship.</p>
<p>you'll get into tulane, lowest retention rate ever = highest transfer acceptance rate ever. great engineering program. i don't like the school too much though. don't go unless you like the greek scene or are looking for no sense of community.</p>