<p>I'm having a lot of trouble finding schools that i want to go to, and i think i'll be able to get into. I have Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, and Tufts all on my list, and all of them look great, but my fear is that i won't be able to get into any of them. My SAT scores, as of right now are 1980, 680 in CR 690 in math and 610 in writing, I'm taking them again in march. do you guys think that i would get into any of those schools?
and if not, what other schools should i start looking at? i'm on collegeboard and a site called **************.com, but i don't know how to sort out the good schools that would be easier to get into from the bad schools
i have schools such as bucknell, lafayette, lehigh, and villanova on my list as schools that would be a little easier to get into, but i still don't know if i would be able to get into any of these. my GPA is a 3.6 and i have average-ish extra currics, I'm in the IB program, if that changes anything</p>
<p>that website involves a word that can’t be said, and i forgot to mention that i would like to stay on the east coast, i currently live in delaware, and i will be applying to Udel, but it’s not my top choice by any stretch</p>
<p>What are your interests, and why do you want to go to an ivy league college? There are plenty of non-ivy schools that are good for engineering, assuming that engineering is (in a broad sense) your interest since you posted in this forum…</p>
<p>Also, what grade level are you, and what IB courses are you taking, what level math, science, etc.?</p>
<p>i don’t really want to go to an ivy-league school, i’ve just been attracted by the name of some of the more prominent schools i guess. I wouldn’t mind going to any decent school really, as long as it fit me, I want to go into electrical engineering, I’m a junior in high school, and I’ll be taking the IB chem test at the end of this year, i’m currently in IB math SL 1,IB chem, IB US history, IB biology, IB english 11, IB spanish 4, and Theory of knowledge junior year</p>
<p>I’ll just throw it out there, but Georgia Tech is a high match.</p>
<p>Worcester Tech (W.P.I.), R.P.I., Clarkson, Pittsburgh, U of Vermont, Virginia Tech, Clemson, Syracuse, Boston U., Northeastern, U of New Hampshire, U of Maine, Union College (NY).</p>
<p>Actually, the OP didn’t mention any Ivy League schools. </p>
<p>The way you’re standing right now, I’d say the schools you mentioned (Hopkins, CMU, and Tufts) are high reaches. You’ll know better once you have your test scores. Plus, you didn’t mention if your GPA was weighted; there’s also class rank and a million other factors. </p>
<p>Some ideas that come to mind: WPI, RPI, Virginia Tech, Stevens Tech</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Ah… could’a sworn I saw ivy league in there somewhere… :/</p>
<p>Thanks to all of you,
i know i may sound picky, but i also want to minor in spanish, i love the language, and i love speaking it. So that pretty much leaves all tech schools out
does anyone have any ideas on what i would need to do to be secure in going to a school like bucknell or lafayette? i know JHU and tufts and CMU will all be reaches for me no matter what, but it would be nice to know that i have good chances of getting into bucknell and lafayette
thanks!</p>
<p>^ I’m pretty sure you can still minor in Spanish if you go to a tech school. Have you looked into your state engineering schools? W/ your GPA (assuming it is UW; same as mine), you could get scholarship money to your state engineering school.</p>
<p>I really don’t want to stay in Delaware, we have del tech, but it’s not a great school, and UDel has a great engineering progam, but i really don’t want to stay in Delaware for school.</p>
<p>Which school has the hottest girls (or the best girl:guy ratio)? I think that’d be as good of a reason to pick one college over another as any other.</p>
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<p>Most of the larger state universities have good language departments (and pretty much every school offers a minor in Spanish). Even the schools without strong language departments, like Georgia Tech, offers a minor in Spanish and allows for cross enrollment at Emory for more advanced classes.</p>
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<p>If that was the criteria for college programs, the US would be country of communications majors.</p>
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<p>Good engineering schools allow too few electives in order for you to truly minor in anything, if you want to grad in 4 years. Unless of course you are a prodigy, and the odds are you are not.</p>
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<p>Name an engineering school that doesn’t offer enough Social Science + free electives to earn a Spanish minor?</p>
<p>Montana State University.</p>
<p>(Assuming you don’t want to take extra classes beyond what is needed for your degree. It’s virtually impossible to take any extra classes and graduate in 8 semesters).</p>
<p>^^ OP wants to stay on the east coast.</p>
<p>What about U Mass, Rutgers, Drexel, and Lehigh?</p>
<p>And I agree with G.P. Burdell about Georgia Tech.</p>
<p>Minors aren’t that many hours… Especially if someone’s coming in with even a little AP credit, they should have time.</p>
<p>Apparently, Montana’s minors are 30 hours, which is an exception, not a rule. A minor is usually 15 hours. It looks like you could devote at least 15 hours to Spanish in the College of Engineering (if Spanish counts as a “diversity” class - what is up with that school?)</p>
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<p>He was referring to my comment about minors in engineering programs. At most schools you’re required to have 6 to 9 hours of social science electives, you get 6 to 9 hours of free electives, and some schools even require a foreign language. That’s enough to get a minor almost everywhere.</p>