<p>Ok, I am a prospective engineering student looking at mechanical and aerospace engineering. The colleges that I am looking at so far are
Virginia Tech
U Florida
Penn State
Maryland
Auburn</p>
<p>Whats the deal with these schools? Respected, not respected, will I get a job, whats my best bet?</p>
<p>Just looking for some outside opinions, I'm from GA, so all OOS
If you have any other suggestions for schools I could look at, let me know!
I'm not Ivy material, but my stats aren't bad by any measure. so help me out!</p>
<p>They’re all fine schools.</p>
<p>What are your stats?</p>
<p>Aren’t you going to apply to Georgia Tech? If not, why not?</p>
<p>Have you already applied to any of these schools? </p>
<p>Have your parents agreed to pay for the high costs of these OOS publics?</p>
<p>My stats are
700 Math SAT
640 CR
670 Writing</p>
<p>31 Math ACT
29 Reading
27 Writing
33 Science
30 Comp</p>
<p>I applied to Tech EA- got denied
Ive applied to Auburn and been accepted and I’m waiting for decisions on the others.
They have agreed to pay for the school. I’m hoping to get some aid too if possible</p>
<p>Well, you should get a 2/3 tuition scholarship from Auburn…right? What is your GPA? That should make your cost about $20k per year. If that cost is fine with your parents, then that can be your safety school. :)</p>
<p>I’m surprised that you would get rejected from GT with an ACT 30. Was your GPA an issue?</p>
<p>OOS publics (except for UVA and UNC-CH) don’t give their need-based aid to non-residents. besides, if your parents can afford the high OOS costs of schools like UPenn and UFL (over $40k per year), then you probably wouldn’t qualify for need-based aid.</p>
<p>Actually, the OOS tuition at Auburn would be 20k and 2/3 of that would be about 7500/ year. Do you think I could get merit based aid at any of these schools should I happen to get in?</p>
<p>and my GPA was a 3.51…so not terrible but I took a ton of hard classes and 5 APs and had an upward trend. I’m not sure what the deciding factor was but it happened…</p>
<p>I believe the term tuition is being used as COA…I use the term tuition for total COA so I understand why m2ck did as well. As an oos student your award is 2/3 of tuition making the COA around $20. This is before any departmental scholarships which more than likely won’t be announced until spring for Auburn.</p>
<p>I’m surprised you were denied at VT for ED (their program is binding, thus ED not EA). I’m guessing being OOS combined with your GPA was the kicker. They over enrolled their engineering dept by several hundred last year so admission standards is likely to tighten. That doesn’t help you unfortunately. Last years avg GPA was 3.96, and it’s no secret that they heavily favor in-state.</p>
<p>The other schools I know less about.</p>
<p>Auburn has a good engineering department, so if you are offered additional aid, or departmental scholarships I wouldn’t hesitate to go there. I know people that have passed by higher ranked schools to graduate debt free at Auburn.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>No I was denied from Georgia Tech…not Virginia Tech, their program is EA. My application is RD for VT. And I still love the school, so hopefully they find a way to let me in. I still like the schools I’ve chosen though. Thanks for the info, I attempted to pick the best engineering schools somewhat close to the East coast</p>