<p>I'm a junior at a small private High School in Minnesota (class of about 60) and am looking for an engineering school with either an Industiral or BioMed Engineering program that would be a safety for me:</p>
<p>GPA 3.73 uw
SAT I 1270 + 690 Writing (will re-take)
Will take ACT in June<br>
Top 25% of class (at least)
2nd Place 2006 MN AATG (American Associaion of Teachers of German) contest
84 AMC Score</p>
<p>3 Years Varsity Football
2 Track
1 Golf
3 Years Theater Tech Work
Junior Class Sec. Treas.
2 Years Mock Trial
German Club
Various Voulenteer work
Summer jobs after 9th and 10th grade </p>
<p>Schools I'm considering:
Northwestern
Purdue
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Pittsburgh
University of Wisconsin Madison
University of Minnesota
Syracuse
CMU
Maruette
Penn State </p>
<p>Are any of the above safety for me or does anyone have a sugestion</p>
<p>I have a hard time thinking that you'll be rejected at Marquette, Purdue, Penn State, Pitt, AND Minnesota. I think although they might not all be exceptionally safe schools to apply to, if you stick with this list you will be fine. Personally, I'd drop Penn State, Marquette, and Pitt. You really think you're going to be rejected by Minnesota? And if you're accepted, unless you get money from other schools, Minnesota is not worse than the other schools. Illinois OOS eng., CMU, and Northwestern are all reaches. </p>
<p>Your rank is a bit low but you should give UW Madison some serious consideration. In state tuition for a top school in your major.</p>
<p>I went to Marquette for my undergrad..they would be a safety for you and are actually pretty strong in Biomed. I wouldn't go there unless I got a good amount of scholarships though. I'd probably stay in state unless I got a good scholarship offer elsewhere.</p>
<p>For biomedical, Tulane might even be a merit $ option for you if the SAT gets up to about 1350 (old). Very strong in biomed; but not for you if you want to preserve the Industrial option as they won't have it.</p>
<p>The only problem with staying in state is that there are only three "good" engineering schools in MN (SCSU, U of M TC, U of M Duluth) and the only one with IE is SCSU, and I really dislike the school. </p>
<p>What is the reasoning for Droping Penn State, Marquette, and Pitt?</p>
<p>Does anyone have any thoughts about Purdue? </p>
<p>I have a hard time believing that they both are reaches, definatly not safeties. Besides, Wisconsin is harder to get into than both of them. Cite your sources.</p>
<pre><code>I guess I was just looking at the rankings...both Purdue and UM are top 10 and are nationally known engineering schools...UW is certainly nationally known, but I wouldn't put them up with Purdue and UM.
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<p>Believe it or not UW is ranked higher than UM (US NEWS). MN's average ACT is "only" a 28, and Purdue 29. Relativly low compared to Northwestern's average SAT of 1430 and Purdue is above NW in the raknings and MN only slightly below. I appreciate the discusion here. I was curious if anyone had any sugestions for schools that are alittle smaller. Say, closer to Northwestern size. Thanks!</p>
<p>Perhaps I need to! I never paid a lot of attention to rankings...last I remembered UM was in the top 10. Perhaps they have slipped a bit. Purdue is still in the top 10 as far as I can tell. I did my undergrad at Marquette (in Wisconsin) and I never got the impression that UW was much harder to get into than Marquette. I knew many at Marquette that were accepted there.</p>
<p>All three schools are comparable...big research universities that are pretty highly ranked.</p>
<p>BioMed is the strongest engineering program there. Marquette is a good school in the fact that it has small classes and teachers that are good - and generally care about teaching. But it is really expensive...I can only recommend them if you get a good scholarship or in money is no object.</p>
<p>They all have strong departments in several fields but the depth and breadth of madison makes it on par with top publics like michigan uva unc, etc.</p>