Good Chemical Engineering Undergrad Schools

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hey guys,</p>

<p>I'm a rising senior, and I'm planning on majoring in chemical engineering, and perhaps also getting a major/minor in biochemistry. What do you guys think of the following colleges? Do you guys also know how good of merit scholarships some of these colleges give?</p>

<p>Cornell
Princeton
UPenn
UC Berkeley
Georgia Tech
Rensselaer
Case Western Reserve
Rutgers (in-state)
University of Delaware</p>

<p>SAT I (superscored): 2400<br>
SAT I (best attempt): 2330 CR-800 Math-730 Writing-800</p>

<p>SAT II: Chemistry-750 Math Level 2-780 (plan to retake)</p>

<p>GPA: Unweighted-3.91 Weighted-4.70 (only B's are in Language Arts in 9th and 10th grade)</p>

<p>AP: Biology-5 Statistics-5 Spanish Language-5</p>

<p>Extracuriculars:
Future Problem Solving- Made it to states twice in high school, got one award in high school; Student Advisor last year, Treasurer this year
Model Congress (debate team)- 4 awards total
Red Cross- Officer one year
STAND (volunteering club)- Secretary
Quiz Bowl
NHS
Spanish NHS
Math Honor Society
Classical dance
Interned in a chemical engineering lab over the summer</p>

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<p>You might want to replace Cal (which has little merit aid and is expensive) with UMN-TC. It has a low COA for OOS students and is known for its strength in ChemE. I think you might qualify for additional merit aid there (check the list below).</p>

<p><a href=“University-Wide Academic Scholarships | Office of Admissions”>http://admissions.tc.umn.edu/costsaid/schol_campus.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Pretty good list with Rutgers and Delaware as solid safeties. The others other than Ivies/Berkeley look solid too, although I don’t know what OOS admission rates are for GT. Believe it or not, you have a better shot at Berkeley than the in-state applicants (ok, 19.4% vs 18.8% for 2014 isn’t much of a bump, but take anything you can get…).</p>

<p>No merit from Ivies. Minnesota is a good suggestion- the OOS list price tuition is very affordable (forget exact amount). Delaware looks to give merit based on stats as well. Case is supposedly good for merit. Don’t know about RPI.</p>

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<p>Penn isn’t really known for CE. Look into CMU perhaps?</p>

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<p>you should look into carnegie mellon and even MIT and stanford if youre up for it.</p>

<p>please chance me!!!
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<p>Actually, ChE at UPenn is pretty good. All your target schools generally have good departments in the traditional engineering disciplines (although I am not familiar with ChE at Georgia Tech). Also, U of Delaware is one of the best Chemical Engineering departments in the world (clearly because of the I.E. DuPont influence), so it’s not necessarily a safety.</p>

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<p>The best colleges in the country don’t give out much in the way of merit scholarships. If your family needs help that’s one thing, but they don’t need to wave cash at people to get them to apply ;-)</p>

<p>Set your sights much lower if you want merit money. And BTW if you graduate from any ABET-approved program your future is going to be just fine. </p>

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<p>Rose Hulman & Bucknell also have top-rated Chem Eng undergrad programs.</p>

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<p>Most of the [url=“&lt;a href=“http://www.theaitu.org%22%5DAITU%5B/url”&gt;http://www.theaitu.org”]AITU[/url</a>] schools (you already have listed a few in the thread) will have a strong Chemical Engineering program. The smaller ones can often give quite good merit aid.</p>

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<p>If you need merit scholarships, then you need an altered list. Too many of those schools wont give you any merit.</p>

<p>What is your situation? Are you low income? If so, do you have a non custodial parent?</p>

<p>or does your family have a good income, but cant pay much towards college?</p>

<p>How much will your parents pay each year? Are they expecting you to get merit scholarships to pay for some or most of college? </p>

<p>If you dont know how much your parents can pay, ask them. </p>

<p>Once you know how much your parents will pay, you will know how much merit you need. For instance if your family can contribute $15k-17k per year for college, then you would need a full tuition scholarship so that the family contribution can pay for room, board, books, fees, travel, personal expenses, etc. </p>

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<p>If you need big merit, Rutgers has a Presidential scholarship that is a full in-state ride. Delaware has a Du Pont scholarship that is a full ride. Both are competitive.</p>

<p>For big merit safeties (automatic for stats), look in <a href=“http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/”>http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/&lt;/a&gt; .</p>

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<p>You may want to look into North Carolina State University. It has a very strong ChemE program.</p>

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<p>“SAT II: Chemistry-750 Math Level 2-780 (plan to retake)”</p>

<p>Retaking = not necessary</p>

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<p>UC’s do not give any aid to OOS students. UMN-TC will for sure waive your OOS tuition and probably much more especially if your NMF/NMSF.
What are you looking for in a school? Size, location, social life, etc.</p>

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<p>Thanks for all the help everyone!</p>

<p>Just to clear things up, my main priority when looking for colleges is the strength of the chemical engineering program-- the merit aid is not necessary, but it would be a big plus.</p>

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<p>Reaches for anyone, but the list of best Chem Eng programs should include Stanford & MIT.</p>

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<p>What are you looking for in a school? Size, location, social life, etc.</p>

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<p>U Delaware.</p>