<p>Hi guys, hope you are all doing well and enjoying your summer (and the world cup). I have just completed my Junior year of high school, and have began to narrow my search for colleges that excel in their Chem-E department. The colleges I have chose are (in no particular order):
1. Lehigh
2. Wisconsin
3. Delaware
4. Texas at Austin
5. Texas AM
6. U PENN
7. Minnesota Twin Cities
8. Purdue</p>
<p>I feel like I have a pretty good idea of which schools are reaches, matches, and safeties, but it would be awesome to have your guys' insight. Thanks! My stats are:</p>
<p>FRESHMAN: 3.838 GPA weighted (only two honors classes offered (geometry and bio which I took)
SOPHOMORE: 4.073 WEIGHTED and 3.68 UNWEIGHTED (only one B+) (ALL HONORS, NO AP OFFERED)
JUNIOR: 4.79 WEIGHTED and 3.96 UNWEIGHTED (4 AP (Bio, Physics, GOV, US History 2) and 3 HONORS (Spanish, English, Math (no AP))
BETWEEN SOPH AND JUNIOR YEAR: 4.58 WEIGHTED GPA and 3.87 UNWEIGHTED</p>
<p>EXTRA CURRICULARS:
-300+ hours (food drives, hunger walks..)
-Winner of Caddy Scholarship
-First Tee Organization
-6 Varsity Letters
-Captain for Football and Basketball</p>
<p>TEST SCORES:
-ACT: 35 COMP
-SAT 2 MATH: 780
-SAT 2 BIO: 790</p>
<p>There is my application! Thank you guys for any insights on the schools I have chosen. Feel free to add any other schools you feel would be good fits.</p>
<p>What is your state of residence?
You have a lot of publics in your list. Yet UC Berkeley and Georgia Tech are missing. Why?
Penn is a strange choice. You should replace it with Stanford or MIT.</p>
<p>I live in NJ. Really? Those schools are options? I thought that would be too high for me, maybe not though. I chose Penn because it is top 15 Chem-E, close to NJ and it is an Ivy.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley is missing only because I am not sure if I can get in, and Georgia Tech should probably be on there, but it is pretty far away…</p>
<p>re: Penn, fair enough. Location is in fact a great reason to choose a college, and I’m glad you’re not just considering rankings. Also apply to Rutgers as your safety.
I’m sure you’re competitive enough for Cal-Berkeley and Georgia Tech. For example, Georgia Tech’s average ACT this year was 32.
As for Stanford and MIT… they’re reaches to everyone. No one is guaranteed admission.</p>
<p>Ok thank you! I will certainly look at GT and see if the atmosphere fits my liking, as well as Berkeley. I have been considering just applying to MIT/Stanford (one of the two) just for the heck of it and see if I get in as its mostly a crapshoot anyway. Is it conceivable that I could get in to the other colleges I mentioned?</p>
<p>That was definitely hard for me not to add, as it is close by, and is a great school! Unfortunately, tuition Is a little high…I will CMU a more intensive look though, thank you!</p>
<p>What would my chances be if I applied to McCormick at Northwestern? My grandpa went there, and it is also an appealing choice.</p>
<p>I’d say you have a good shot at U-MN-TC with your fine ACT score. It is a top school for Chem-E, as I am sure you know, and reasonably priced for an OOS student like you. </p>
<p>I’m from Wisconsin, and I’d say you’re in there. I’m not sure what admissions is like for OOS, but you’d fit right in with the other engineering kids I know that are currently attending. </p>
<p>Thank you guys! I really appreciate it.</p>
<p>@collegelover212
By your comment it seems that your family cannot afford sticker price for four years at a school like Cal. In your case, run the net price calculator for, say, CMU and talk to your parents about finances. Maybe your family can afford to send you there.
On the other hand, U of Minnesota - Twin Cities seems like the best option… it’s a top ChemE school and its OOS sticker price is cheaper than in-state Cal sticker price.</p>
<p>I would check out Penn State-University Park for ChemE. Im interested in Biomed engineering and I’m visiting there this summer. My Dad majored in Electrical Engineering there also.</p>
<p>Cal is really expensive…but I will run the calculator prices and see what happens. </p>
<p>A couple of my friends are looking at Penn State (not for engineering), but I have noticed them pretty high on rankings. </p>
<p>Minnesota is a very appealing option due to ranking, tuition, decent football team, I like the cold… If I were to get accepted into UMinn and let’s say UPenn, probably my two right now, would a degree from Minnesota look better than UPenn for an employer? Or would the Ivy League prestige outmatch the UMinn program? I also just saw an interesting article that showed SEAS as the highest median salary coming out of college besides Stanford. This has really confused me as I thought UMinn was a more prestigious engineering school, but this seems to speak otherwise. Does anyone have any insight on this?? Thank you, if so. </p>