My dear S is a B/B+ student with a 30 ACT. What would be good schools for him to look at for Mechanical Engineering. East coast or Midwest ideally.
Purdue, Michigan State, Clemson, Michigan Tech, Penn State Vermont. I am sure there are others I just didn’t think of. If finances are a consideration that might change up any list.
You can go to the ASEE website
http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/
and see a list of schools with ABET accredited programs. If you select a school, there is a wealth of information about the ACT/SAT scores of enrolled students, number of applicants/admissions/enrolled for the engineering college, the majors offered, number of students in each year of each major and number of graduates in each major for a particular year.
The only cautionary thing I have seen is sometimes the 25/75 percentiles of enrolled students are a little wacky. Like they put in the highest/lowest score of any person accepted and not the percentile score but you can usually tell when they don’t make sense.
look at Manhattan College and SUNY Buffalo.
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My dear S is a B/B+ student with a 30 ACT. What would be good schools for him to look at for Mechanical Engineering. East coast or Midwest ideally.
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How much can you pay each year?
What is a B/B+ as a GPA? Is it a 3.3? Higher? Lower? What is his weighted GPA?
What is your home state
Bradley in Illinois.
University of Hartford. Good engineering program.
Wichita State University in KS. I’m certain he would get in, scholarships might be possible too.
Drexel, Stevens Institute?
I am not sure about what gpa you are thinking of. If it is more of a B+ GPA, then Wisconsin might be a possibility. they have a very good engineering program.
My son is a B student and we had a hard time deciding where because his GPA is 3.35 right now but his SAT was 1880 & only took the ACT once before we had to submit he had a 25. He was accepted to Washington State University, Wentworth Institute of Technology with a Merit Scholarship, Stony Brook University, University of Pittsburgh main campus, Arizona State University all for Computer Science BS major. We were scared and not sure where to rate him but we feel better now that we know he will be just fine and our worries were silly! A B student is a great student and hard worker I feel bad that I doubted his hard work. You can mess me for list of schools or any further questions.
Without knowing exactly what this particular B/B+ scales to on a 4.0 scale, Wisconsin is probably difficult for admission, and I believe the deadline for application has now passed. For Big Ten schools with reputable engineering and less than, say, a 3.6 GPA, both Minnesota and Michigan State may be worth applications.
Stony Brook, Pitt and Maryland are also good ideas.
Thanks for the great ideas. He’s got a 3.8 weighted in CT. All AP and honors classes and he is an all-state trumpet player so maybe that will help too. Will need some financial assistance.
He sounds like a good student, with a challenging courseload. You should know that the better-ranked schools are going to require an unweighted GPA, which is presumably less than a 3.8. I know for a fact that Wisconsin only considers unweighted, for example.
For a student like this, I would suggest a few reach-type schools that he really likes, because those stats could go either way at some of the higher-tier schools. A bunch of match-type schools, and probably also a couple that are known for awarding merit aid with his stats. He should do well.
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Thanks for the great ideas. He's got a 3.8 weighted in CT. All AP and honors classes and he is an all-state trumpet player so maybe that will help too.
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Will need some financial assistance.
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Are you low/modest income?
Or will you likely have an unaffordable EFC?
Are you looking for large merit awards so that your net cost is a certain amount?
How much can you pay each year?
For instance, if your family can contribute about $15k per year, then your child will need a full tuition merit scholarship so that your $15k can cover room, board, fees, books, etc.
Have you run any Net Price Calculators on various schools’ websites?
Some of the mentioned schools may not be affordable because either they don’t give much aid or higher stats are needed for a good amount of merit. However, once we know what the situation is, we can better advise.
Check out Ohio State University. Very good engineering school + the National Buckeye scholarship will make it a very appealing choice for oos
OSU is a good idea, but agree w/ Mom2: more info. needed to be of assistance. Some more nice possibilities in your neck of the woods: RPI, Rochester, Brandeis.
What kind of price limit are you looking at?
Also 3.8 weighted GPA means what unweighted GPA? B/B+ implies 3.0 to 3.3 – is that correct?
http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/ lists some full tuition scholarship possibilities:
Alabama (if they still trust the high school’s notion of weighted GPA for the 3.5 minimum; 30 ACT)
Howard (3.0 GPA and 26 ACT)
Prairie View A&M (3.25 GPA and 24 ACT)
If the son’s transcript indicates a GPA that is a 3.5+ and he has a 30 ACT, then Alabama would give him:
2/3 tuition from the school
1/3 tuition from the College of Eng’g
2500 per year from the College of Eng’g.
total of over $110,0000
If he retests and gets either a 1400 M+CR SAT or a 32+ ACT, then his total tuition award would be from the school, but he could major in anything (not just eng’g or comp sci.)
He should retest (take both exams) to improve options.
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
U of Rochester
Case Western Reserve U
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Washington University St. Louis
Saint Louis University