<p>Are you a likely NMSF?</p>
<p>anyway…apply to USC, they’d probably give you at least a half tuition scholarship and any FA that you qualify for. </p>
<p>They should be selective (I want to be challenged there; I don’t think I’d get that at a school where the median ACT is a 24), and have a good engineering program.</p>
<p>ahh…let me correct a very common misconception. Do NOT look at a schools “median score” to give you ANY sense of what the average scores would be for your engineering classmates. The STEM majors will have a MUCH higher “median ACT” then the university at large. You won’t be going to class with a bunch of classmates whose ACTs are modest. </p>
<p>People often wrongly think that “high stats students” are somehow evenly spread out amongst all majors. THEY ARE NOT (except maybe at ivies/elites). At many/most schools, those with high scores are largely found in about 6-10 majors…engineering, math, physics, bio, chem, finance, econ, and a few others. </p>
<p>Who care what some kids in some easy major across campus are doing or what their ACT scores are? How does that affect you in any way??? They may be majoring in something that is so right-brained that a high test score has no significance.</p>