Find me a school

College Search & Selection
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I’m gonna be a senior this coming fall and I’m not sure where to apply. I want to major in engineering.
A little bit about me:

-I go to North Allegheny High School. One of the best in the state.

-weighted QPA: 3.84

-SAT Math: 700
Critical Reading: 590
Writing : 580

-ACT: 29 composite
English: 24
Math: 33
Reading: 28
Science: 32
English/Writing: 23

-APs so far: AP Chem, scored a 5

-APs next year: AP Bio, AP calc AB, AP physics 1&2

-STEM classes taken: Honors pre calc, honors physics

-I live in PA and I’d like to go to school somewhere in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, Indiana, Michigan

I want to be able to make it into the college of engineering of a school, not have to wait till my sophomore year. I would really appreciate some schools in my range that have good engineering programs. Thanks.

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Penn State, Pitt, Lehigh, Lafayette, Bucknell, Rutgers, Rowan, U of Delaware, U of Maryland?

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You’re in PA, you have three great schools ( penn state, U of Pitt and temple) maybe look into these schools

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University of Dayton (OH), Penn State, Michigan State, University of Cincinnati, Drexel, Temple, Hope, Loyola MD

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VA Tech might be a reach, but worth trying for. West VA is probably a match, as is Temple.

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What can your family afford?

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For Michigsn, think about MSU and Michigan Tech.

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Your post has info that can readily identify you to someone at your HS. You shouldn’t be so free w/your info, you know.

If money isn’t an issue, consider Purdue, Rose Hulman, UIUC – none are shoo-ins (you’re near the mid to lower end of admitted students), but great engineering pgms

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Money isn’t really a problem.
Could I make it into Lehigh, Drexel, bucknell, case western, grove city? Those are the schools I’m looking at. I feel like none of those are safety schools.
Also I didn’t mention my extracurriculars:
Marching band: freshman, sophomore
Track/cross country: junior(varsity/lettered), senior
Part time job, leader at middle school youth group that meets once a week, several mission trips.

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Google the “common data sets” for each of the colleges and you’ll see info in Section C about their incoming freshmen. Your list seems to be smaller schools. Don’t want an UIUC or Purdue experience?

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-Case Western Reserve University
-Lehigh
-Rose Hulman
-University of Michigan
—If you’re willing to open up your search to NY, there’s a lot of great engineering schools
–Clarkson University (SAT averages fit yours)
–University of Rochester
–Rochester Institute of Technology
–Renssalear Polytechnic Institute

…Side note… When I started my search, I decided I wanted to stay towards the east coast and counted out the Midwest… That was really dumb. I opened it up to Ohio, and now Case Western is one of my top schools. Just don’t count out entire states- you’re better off drawing a circle around your hometown with a time limit. If I’m willing to drive 5 hours to Massachusetts, I should also be willing to go the same 5 hours to Ohio.

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UMichigan-Ann Arbor College of Engineering is not viable for an OOS student with a ACT29. Kettering University in Flint MI is an often overlooked school – but they turn out tons of engineers that get gobbled up by the auto industry.

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Agree that Michigan is out of reach. What is your unweighted GPA? Have your parents agreed to schools costing over $50K per year (just checking, some students say no problem on cost and they are thinking they can just borrow a lot).

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Actually UM-Flint is a good option as they have guaranteed transfer to UMich-AA if you meet the minimal GPA requirement.
https://www.umflint.edu/csep/EngineeringTransfer/EngineeringTransfer

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^^ That sounds like an outstanding deal. And you would save some cash (vs. Ann Arbor) while you are at Flint.

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I’m not looking for just a small school feel. I’m open to big schools too. I’m starting to open up my search to Ohio state, penn state, university of Maryland and Indiana university. Are those schools where I have to get accepted into the college of engineering or get accepted to the university and then declare a major(like case western)??
Also how good are their engineering programs? Could I get into them?

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I think for all those colleges you have to be accepted into the engineering school. All have very good engineering programs. Look at the Common Data Set for each (section C) to see what your chances are.