<p>I've recently decided that I want to pursue chemical engineering in college. What are the best schools for chemical engineering that I could get into with my stats: 6/530 weighted rank, 97 unweighted GPA, SAT I 730 (CR) 630 (M) 690 (CR)?</p>
<p>A couple off the top of my head: Harvey Mudd, Rice University…but there are many many more. I would apply to no less than 6 of them based on below:</p>
<p>Another way to look at this is to ask the question: “What schools have chemical engineering departments?” Next, decide which ones your interested in based on other factors like:</p>
<ol>
<li> Location (big or small town, rain or hot, skiing or surfing…etc.)</li>
<li> School (big or small, large or small classes…etc)</li>
<li> Research possibilities for Undergraduates…important!</li>
<li> Retention of undergraduates (what number of freshman stay to finish)</li>
<li> Quality of science department and professors.</li>
</ol>
<p>You can find some of this information from books at the bookstore or your high school career center and here on the net. As you do your homework, look for a pattern (you’ll see one). A couple of links are:</p>
<p><a href=“http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/[/url]”>http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/</a>
<a href=“College Reviews: StudentsReview : Over 237100 College Reviews ™ (4,421 colleges reviewed!)”>http://www.studentsreview.com/</a>
<a href=“http://www.princetonreview.com/college/default.asp[/url]”>http://www.princetonreview.com/college/default.asp</a>
<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/servlets/MajorSearch[/url]”>http://www.usnews.com/servlets/MajorSearch</a></p>
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<p>^One of your links got blocked mixer, you might want to repost that with spaces to prevent that.</p>
<p>That bad link is: <a href=“http://66.179.100.7/[/url]”>http://66.179.100.7/</a></p>
<p>You shouldn’t come here if you want to go into ChemE since we only offer general engineering. </p>
<p>But in this case it doesn’t matter because the OP’s math score is so low. Mudd is a huge reach.</p>
<p>I would guess Rice would be a big reach also. </p>
<p>Your best bet is a state school–they tend to have the best engineering programs anyway. The few privates that have better engineering departments than state schools are hard to get into with a 630 Math score.</p>
<p>University of Wisconsin-Madison has a great chemE department (top 5), and I don’t think it’s quite as competitive to get into out-of-state as some good state schools like U. of Michigan. U. of Minnesota also has a top 5 chemE department. Either would be a great choice. </p>
<p>Look up the ranking of your state school in chemE–it may be your best bet.</p>
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How did you decide this? Have you talked with people working in industry? Researched the jobs and salaries? Understand what the job is like out of college, and what the ladder would be? Do you understand what the workload will be like in college, the types of classes you will be taking?</p>
<p>I don’t say this to attack you, I say it because I think a lot of kids enter engineering college as almost a casual decision. And they don’t stay long; as one industry newspaper reports
The</a> problem is that someone picking a school for its prowess in engineering may not be so happy there outside of engineering, meaning transfer or suck it up. Undergrad engineering is tough, no doubt about it. Someone is more likely to stick it thru (IMHO) if they have a strong desire to succeed because they know they really want the career at the end of the tunnel, than someone who just says “hey, engineering, maybe I’ll give it a shot”.</p>
<p>Here’s the US News rankings for ChemE programs at schools whose highest degree is a doctorate:</p>
<p>1 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology<br>
2 University of California–Berkeley *
3 Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities *
4 Stanford University (CA)
5 Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison *
6 California Institute of Technology<br>
7 Princeton University (NJ)
8 U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *
9 University of Texas–Austin *
10 University of Delaware *
11 Georgia Institute of Technology *
11 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *
13 Cornell University (NY)
14 Carnegie Mellon University ¶
15 Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)*
16 Pennsylvania State U.–University Park *
17 Texas A&M Univ.–College Station *
17 Univ. of California–Santa Barbara *
19 North Carolina State U.–Raleigh *
20 Rice University (TX)
20 University of Pennsylvania<br>
22 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY)
23 Iowa State University *
23 Northwestern University (IL)
23 University of Notre Dame (IN)
23 University of Virginia *
23 University of Washington * </p>
<p>Any of the schools on this list would be great choices.</p>
<p>I’d consider Case and RPI as good engineering schools you could get into. It’s true that SAT math scores are stellar in these programs, e.g., one yr Cal Tech had all entering frosh w/ 800 on SAT IIs.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why my SAT math is so low! I’ve been in honors/AP classes all highschool with above a 95. I’m in AP Physics right now and I’ve got a 97! I’m so discouraged. Is there really no hope for me???</p>
<p>Don’t worry, engineering schools on avg have higher acceptance rates than liberal arts schools b/c not everyone can or want to be an engineer. W/ your math scores you could easily land a second tier engineering school and be very happy there and end up w/ a high paying job in the end.</p>
<p>Any thoughts to a smaller college’s 3-2 program and transfer after 3 yrs to a top-notch school?</p>
<p>Mmm, I think Smith has that? Honestly, I don’t know much about them. Do you know some reputable schools with that? What does the 3-2 stand for? I know, I know, I’m so needy. Sorry..</p>
<p>i think 3/2 means you spend three years and then two years and you can get both a BA and a BS degree when you graduate.</p>
<p>i’m not sure, someone confirm?</p>
<p>^^ I thought they were 2/3 programs: 2 years at the liberal arts college and 3 years at the engineering/science university. </p>
<p>That makes more sense–get the background in the basic sciences and math at the liberal arts college, then spend the next 3 years in engineering. I know Bryn Mawr has/had a program like that with CalTech…</p>
<p>you would be a great fit for purdue! and that is a good school too
at times you just have a bad day testing</p>
<p>Three years at usually a liberal arts school, then your final two at the engineering school.</p>
<p>^^that’s kind of odd, because it’s tough to finish all the engineering classes in 2 years.</p>
<p>A lot of people at my current school spent 3 years elsewhere before coming here for 2 years of engineering. It’s not tough to finish all the engineering classes in 2 years. Many regular 4 years programs only have their engineering courses in the final two years anyway, which is why this works. Are you considering engineering classes to include math, physics, etc? Because those are taken during the first 3 years and not the final 2.</p>
<p>^^no, I’m not. </p>
<p>Generally, at my school it was common to finish math, physics, chem in the first year (with some help from AP credits,) but it took 3 years to finish the engineering. Maybe we just had more engineering requirements than most schools.</p>
<p>It probably depends on the school. At my undergrad, I started taking a few engineering courses in my 2nd year, but if I didn’t have to take 4 humanities courses in my last 2 years, and instead took them during my first 2 years, i still would’ve fit all my engr courses into my last 2 years. At my current school, undergrads take all humanities courses in their first 2 years and take only courses within their major in the final 2, so it’s more or less the same.</p>