<p>Hi! Here's my basic stats:</p>
<p>white female in CT
2250 SAT with 770 M and 730 CR, retook in October
780 in Physics
760 in Math II
790 in Math I (don't ask why I took both haha)
GPA: about 97% no class rank
APs: Physics 5, English Lit 5, Spanish 5, taking four more this year (only 6 APs are offered at my school but I self studied spanish and I'm taking computer science online)</p>
<p>ECs:
stage manager
robotics captain
art teacher
math and science tutor
NHS
facepainter
built a telescope
physics olympics (just for fun)</p>
<p>I'm applying to some reaches, but I need more matches and safeties. I want to study materials engineering. (I did two summer programs, one at Brown and one at NC State). I'd prefer to stay Northeast and money isn't an issue I have discussed with my parents and inheritance from rich grandpa will cover it. </p>
<p>Possibly I was thinking:</p>
<p>UConn (state school), RPI (high match), URochester (match), Georgia Tech?, Northeastern?, Drexel?</p>
<p>other ideas?</p>
<p>Schools like UIUC and Purdue would be good safety schools. Northwestern can be a high match.</p>
<p>If “northeast” is defined as ME, VT, NH, MA, CT, RI, NY, NJ, you do not have a lot of choices for materials engineering:</p>
<p>Alfred University
Brown University
Cornell University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
University of Connecticut</p>
<p>Add PA, MD, VA, DC, WV, DE and the following are added:</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University
Drexel University
Lehigh University
Pennsylvania State University
The Johns Hopkins University
University of Maryland College Park
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University</p>
<p>Added Northwestern and Johns Hopkins to the list of possibilities but those are both still pretty reachy. Drexel I have a free application fee, how does it look as a safety school? How is Northeastern for a safety or match? Georgia tech (though it isn’t northeast)?</p>
<p>I believe you’ll get in state tuition at Ohio State if you apply now. It has amazing opportunities for undergraduate materials research and is pretty close to the Northeast region. Personally I’d choose to go to OSU over many of the other options previously suggested.</p>
<p>Drexel and Northeastern are big into co-ops, which may be either a significant positive or negative point for you. But note that some other schools have optional formalized co-op programs – check their web sites.</p>
<p>Northeastern does not have materials engineering.</p>
<p>A female with those stats who want to study materials engineering. One of the more popular engineering disciplines for women, but still under 30%. I think you are seriously underestimating your desirability - you should have your choice of many of the top schools. You’re basically a URM if the schools take desired major into account.</p>
<p>No one is automatic at MIT, Penn, Brown, or Cornell, but you should pull off at least a few of those. Everything else on the list should almost be automatic.</p>
<p>I think your odds are pretty good given your minority status (female) and your stats and ECs. So I think you are a match for most schools. Of course MIT is lottery for everyone…
Here’s the list College Navigator shows for materials science and engineering for NE and Mid-Atlantic:
[College</a> Navigator - Search Results](<a href=“College Navigator - Search Results”>College Navigator - Search Results)</p>
<p>Anywhere you’d like~</p>
<p>Thanks guys! My full list looks like this (so I am going for those top schools):</p>
<p>MIT
Olin
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon
RPI
University of Rochester
Johns Hopkins (now I’m applying, thanks for the suggestion it looks really nice!)
UConn
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia
Drexel (free application and no essays, it’s literally effortless to apply!)</p>
<p>I just really needed some more safety and matches to be secure about my applications. Will look into OSU!!</p>
<p>My estimate of your chances
MIT 30%
Olin - I can’t imagine why you’d want to go here, especially for materials, but suit yourself.
Cornell - 50%, 70% if ED - terrific school for materials
Carnegie Mellon 60% - terrific school for materials
RPI - 90% - I can’t see you not getting in
University of Rochester 90% - 100% if you visit and interview
Johns Hopkins (now I’m applying, thanks for the suggestion it looks really nice!) 50%
UConn 100%
University of Pennsylvania 40% if early decision, 20% otherwise
Columbia - 20%
Drexel (free application and no essays, it’s literally effortless to apply!) 100%</p>
<p>If you are filling out any application on the common app by Nov 1, Northeastern is trivial to add</p>
<p>Thank you for the estimations! I hope you guys are right and I get into one or more of my high matches and reaches.</p>
<p>WPI doesn’t have materials science/engineering at the undergrad level, just graduate…</p>
<p>Good to know thank you</p>
<p>Olin is a fabulous school and one of the few engineering schools where there are 50% women. You learn engineering by doing projects not reading a book. They have great mech and ece programs, but no materials to my knowledge. More important they teach you how to think like an engineer. </p>
<p>Their students get amazing internships, jobs and into great grad programs. Check out the Olin College section of CC. You can PM me or any of the Olin parents. Many of us know each other. It is a family atmosphere. You won’t get that any place else.</p>
<p>But at WPI, its possible a student could parlay Materials Science related coursework, Chemistry that is (Inorganic, Polymer, Physical), and the mandatory student project into WPI’s Mechanical Engineering or Chemical Engineering major. A ME or Ch-E career can be quite broad in scope.</p>
<p>Good news guys! An addition to my ECs: my rookie physics olympics team (I’m captain) took home 2nd and 3rd place finishes in events yesterday out of 50 teams in the state 
so proud! We have like 300 kids in our entire school haha </p>
<p>Yeah, at Olin you can concentrate in materials science though! I love love love it so much I visited a while ago. ClassicRockerDad, I posted a chance thread earlier with Olin and he told me the same thing, he’s just not an Olin fan.</p>
<p>LakeWashington - good point about WPI. Since there are graduate programs in materials science there would definitely be plenty of support for an undergrad there even if there isn’t a formal undergrad degree in it.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’m going to be applying to WPI, just because my list seems pretty rounded out and I’d rather have materials science as a straight-up major.</p>
<p>Do you guys think I’m safe if I apply to Drexel (would need scholarships), University of Rochester, RPI, and UConn? For my matches and safeties? I adore RPI but it isn’t really a safety…</p>