<p>Hello,</p>
<p>So I am ckhgator...</p>
<p>And heeeeeere we go-</p>
<p>Electrical Engineering/Philosophy minor
GPA 3.524uw 4.091w
Rank 34/251 13.5%
SAT June 1880 580CR/740M/560W
SAT October EXPECTING +2000 620-670CR/780-800M/600-650W</p>
<p>My October sat, I felt critical reading and writing jumped 50-70, and I honestly think I got a perfect math. I am not the type to exaggerate... but either way it doesn't matter until we see it. So don't kill me over it.</p>
<p>I live in Delaware. :(</p>
<p>UD is an obvious choice, followed by VT, Drexel, Stony Brook, Pitt, Penn State, blaa blaa blaa.</p>
<p>My concern is if I do get my SAT up, lets just say its a 2000-2100 for convenience, where else should I look? I have been looking around at 1800-1900 schools, and if I can increase my range, what are some great Mid-Atlantic and Southern North-East schools with great EE programs?</p>
<p>Go!!!</p>
<p>And if you're gonna post "You're SATs aren't very good. I'm better than you.", don't even bother. I don't care.</p>
<p>You’re looking at OOS publics. How much will your parents pay?</p>
<p>If you do get your SAT up, then include some schools that will give you merit for your stats.</p>
<p>You do have a lot of OOS publics there!</p>
<p>The University of Alabama has a lot of merit scholarships. With your current CR+M score (1320) you are eligible for their half-tuition scholarship. If you did indeed increase your CR+M by, let’s say, 100 points, you would be eligible for their Presidential Scholarship - which is full tuition over four years. I think Bama has pretty good engineering majors and a range of other majors as well.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech is another great Southeastern engineering school - especially for electrical engineering - but they don’t give much merit aid. Still, OOS tuition at Tech can be affordable. UMaryland also comes to mind, although the OOS public thing still holds.</p>
<p>You may be interested in Cooper Union, which doesn’t have tuition. It’s in New York.</p>
<p>Here are some other privates:</p>
<p>Southern Methodist
Syracuse
Worcester Polytechnic
Marquette
Colorado School of Mines
Clarkson University
Temple
NYU-Poly
Hofstra
Villanova
Northeastern
Boston U</p>
<p>Some other Southern publics you may want to consider are NCSU, Clemson, and The Citadel.</p>
<p>The magic number is between 20-25k a year. My parents will pay for my entire undergrad education IF I agree to not take out any loans i.e. it must be under 25k or I simply cannot afford to go there.</p>
<p>Does prestige really matter, and is it better to pay more for a better school than get a great deal on a good school? I.E. if I pushed into Rensselaer with the high tuition vs. going to Alabama for cheap.</p>
<p>Penn State won’t work with that budget. You’ll need higher stats for merit from Pitt. Cooper Union is very hard to get into and their scholarship is down to half tuition. Stony Brook and WPI are good recommendations.</p>
<p>My college search is a bit unorthodox. My main concern isn’t always just getting in, it is whether or not I can even afford it. Like I said, I could fight my way into Rensselaer, maybe John Hopkins with a bit of luck, but I couldn’t attend it because I couldn’t ever be able to afford it. So I am resorting to looking for schools that will dangle the fiscal pickle, and offer great aid + UD (instate school). I used to live in Florida, and I would have had many more choices of where to go. But I now live in the state with only one real choice.</p>
<p>Go to the Financial Aid forum and look at the stickies at the top for Assured Merit Aid.</p>
<p>*The magic number is between 20-25k a year. My parents will pay for my entire undergrad education IF I agree to not take out any loans i.e. it must be under 25k or I simply cannot afford to go there.</p>
<p>Does prestige really matter, and is it better to pay more for a better school than get a great deal on a good school? I.E. if I pushed into Rensselaer with the high tuition vs. going to Alabama for cheap.*</p>
<p>Push for RPI? Push who? your parents? You can try but you need to have back up cheaper schools in case your parents say “no” to RPI next spring (or you don’t get in).</p>
<p>Bama is fine for eng’g. It has a brand new Science and Eng’g Complex. What eng’g discipline are you considering? </p>
<p>Are you retesting? Right now, you’d get about $11k per year from Bama…plus 1500 from eng’g… But if you raise your SAT by only 10 points, you’d get free tuition plus $2500 per year.</p>