jshain

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My first post! My son (incoming senior) wants to major in Mechanical Engineering. Overall, he has a very ambitious list of schools that he is planning to apply to: </p>

<p>MIT, Stanford, Cornell, Brown, Rice, UCBerkeley, UCLA, Michigan, Notre Dame, USC, Purdue, UCSanta Barbara, Cal Poly SLO, and Santa Clara. </p>

<p>He is a full IB student with an overall GPA of 4.65. His SAT scores on his one and only SAT test was 2220-- Math-800, Writing-760, and Reading-660. He got an 800 on the math subject test. He got a 32 on his one and only ACT test. He is in mock trial, played tennis, and volunteered about 75 hours to date with one organization. He is also an Eagle scout.</p>

<p>With the exception of USC, UCSanta Barbara, Cal Poly, and Santa Clara, what are his chances of getting into these other schools?</p>

<p>Thank you so much for your answers!</p>

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<p>The CR score will hurt at the top schools. He’ll probably do fine at all but Stanford, Brown, MIT and maybe Cornell.</p>

<p>Much also depends on his profile. I’m guessing you live in CA and he’s white or Asian. If he’s black and from Arkansas, the top schools would be possible.</p>

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<p>Redroses, thanks for your reply. i would agree with your feedback. And yes, he is a white male from CA. One correction: his service hours are about 1,075 NOT 75.</p>