Hi, I really need some help choosing some engineering schools. I’m getting conflicting answers left and right, so pls help me out.
36 ACT
1550 SAT
unweighted 3.77 GPA
Rigorous classes, multiple AP and honors
Mostly 4s and 5s on AP tests
Live in Minnesota
Aiming for less than $25K net cost
Interested in Biomedical Engineering or Computer Engineering
Looking to do pre-med as well
Urban or Suburban, no small town or rural
No preference for region
Looking for colleges with merit aid
Looking for DII or DIII soccer colleges, but NOT NECESSARY
Sorry for all the preferences. Let me know if you need any more info. Thanks!
The University of Rochester matches nearly all of your criteria. However, your net cost objective would be challenging to meet through merit scholarship recognition alone.
The University of Utah would be a good fit and has excellent merit aid. After the first year you can get residency which brings the net cost to about $20K and a first year OOS tuition waiver is not hard to get. You might do better than that in merit aid (they have full tuition and full ride scholarships) though they like to see high UW GPAs.
I am going to go outside your preferences. If you want to play soccer look for schools with intermural leagues which many have. With your stats I would look at d1 schools. You have a really good engineering one in your backyard at University of Minnesota… It’s been rising and up and coming every year. Also with your stats you might be in line for merit at a lot of universities. Look at the usnwr at the top 50 programs. If nothing in the top ten interest you then try 11-20 and so on. The lower you go the more merit will be available to you per se.
You said your getting conflicting answers… Like what?
Would you like a tech-focused school, or a curriculary broad-based school that includes engineering? Your preference will serve as an important narrowing factor in the creation of your college list.
Some advice is that any high ranking engineering college below 20% acceptance rate is virtually impossible for me to get into without paying a lot more than 25K, others say the opposite.
Do Naviance for Schools that interest you then do the net calculator. That 36 is key. Scholarships could be available to you to make those schools affordable. That is why I said first look at the top 1-10 and so on. Make a list of schools that interest you. Then do the net calculators and see what that says. Look at requirements for merit. If need to keep getting great grades as a senior. You will have your list in no time.
Look at Case Western Reserve University. There is a lot of merit aid/scholarships he will automatically be considered for and he could also apply for some other scholarships offered at CWRU.
You will need to show a lot of interest as sometimes students with your scores are denied as they do not want to accept those only using CWRU as a safety.
Check out Earlham. Top 1% in the nation for premed, and has a 3/2 graduate engineering options with Columbia University and with Case Western. Soccer team is accessible to most somewhat decent club players. And they have good merit money.
Another option with D3 soccer is Rose Holman. Well known for engineering, less so for Pre-med.
Case Western and Purdue have good engineering programs, but not the soccer. Also, harder to switch majors at schools like Case and Purdue and premed/engineering wont cross over at most schools (which is why I mentioned Earlham first)
Definitely check out Case Western. A large number of students there are BME/Premed and the course schedules are largely structured around that track. From my experience, a large number of professors are overqualified in a good way, where I’ve had engineering classes with real astronauts or worldrenowned organic chemists are polymer engineering researchers who have discovered large portions of the field.
CWRU gives out a large amount of merit based scholarships and financial aid and have a great D3 soccer team, and the campus is a short bus ride from the city of Cleveland. They also have large opportunities for premed students, as well with the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospital a walking distance away from campus.