<p>My S is interested in Engineering (upcoming senior). He'd like to stay in the NE/Mid Atlantic region. His stats:</p>
<p>MATH SAT 710
RC: 680
WRITING: 690
SATII MATH 2 710
SATII USHIST 710
GPA: 3.8 (unweighted)
Taking Honors track & completed 1 AP past year.
Good EC including National Honor Society, Debate team, 2 varsity sports . . .
He is thinking about going Engineering Undeclared.
Hoping to get some direction towards planning visits this summer.
Thank you!</p>
<p>At VT every freshman starts out in General Engineering, which may interest him, and his stats are good for there. GT is a great school in the region too.</p>
<p>GT is not in the NE/Mid Atlantic region…</p>
<p>RPI might be interesting for the man. But only 1 AP so far? Unless his school doesn’t offer a lot of APs, colleges won’t look kindly on “less rigorous” curriculum.</p>
<p>Yeah, I just looked up what exactly the ‘mid-atlantic region’ was and GT is a little ways off, but is worth looking at. The AP thing might hurt him at some top universities but assuming that he’s taken some honors classes and his weighted GPA is around 4 he’s going to be fine at a lot of very good engineering universities. Some schools hardly offer any APs, especially before senior year. I know that my fairly large (about 2k people) highschool only offered Senior History, Senior English, Calculus and Programming AP classes, and it was unlikely that anyone took one or more by the end of their junior year. PSU is one to look at as well.</p>
<p>edit: Now I’m curious. What AP classes do schools offer in the junior and below years? It seems like they’d almost all be senior level classes with the possible exception of physics or chemistry, which would still possibly be taken in the senior year.</p>
<p>Penn State - University Park
U Maryland - College Park</p>
<p>Thanks for VT info, Chury. Good to hear that all freshmen go in as General Engineering–I assume this means they offer a lot of help to students in deciding their ultimate majors.</p>
<p>Jr. year he took: Honors Pre-Calc., Honors Physics, Honors English, AP History, Spanish IV . . . Finished with all A’s except B+ in English.
Sr. year he will be taking AP Calc., AP Statistics, AP Physics, Spanish V . .</p>
<p>Yeah, as a freshman you’re required to go to a few information sessions (each major puts on at least one) for the specific departments, and there is an engineering open house where each department has a booth and you can learn more about them. A lot of highschool juniors and seniors attend the open house too. His course selection is fine for just about anywhere.</p>
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<p>All the history ones, economics, geography, psychology, environmental science, statistics, etc etc.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University (in Pittsburgh, PA) may be a good option for your son. He will have to apply for admission directly into the College of Engineering (CIT), but, as a freshman, he won’t have to declare a major until the end of his second semester as an engineering student.</p>
<p>Check out:
-Cornell
-Carnegie Mellon
-Bucknell
-Penn State
-University of Maryland</p>
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<p>My sons’ school only offers AP US History and AP English at the junior level, with the possibly of taking AP Envir Sci. Unless someone is exceptionally advanced, every other AP class is for seniors. AP Phys, Bio, Chem require a pre-AP class beforehand.</p>
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<p>Interesting. Well, if that’s the case the colleges won’t hold it against you.</p>