<p>You might get into any of those. I would say all are within reach. Be sure to spell Johns Hopkins correctly on your application. They are proud of their S.</p>
<p>Why Brown?</p>
<p>Oops haha. And it’s still a good engineering school even though they aren’t known for it.</p>
<p>^ I know, DS was admitted there.</p>
<p>Nice, congrats! Now that i’ve narrowed my list down to about 15, what other factors could narrow it down even further?</p>
<p>“The Virginia engineers I know send their kids to Virginia Tech for engineering over UVa.”</p>
<p>Not all. My husband is an engineer and my older kid went to UVa, the younger one to Virginia Tech, both in engineering. Older kid just felt UVa was a better fit for him. They are both great schools, both well recruited . Can’t go wrong with either.</p>
<p>Anyone think they could help me narrow down my list?</p>
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<p><a href=“https://secure.hosting.vt.edu/www.finaid.vt.edu/apply/aid_estimator.php[/url]”>https://secure.hosting.vt.edu/www.finaid.vt.edu/apply/aid_estimator.php</a> indicates a net price of about $14,000 per year, which is probably a stretch for a family with income of $49,999 or less. The Alabama automatic merit scholarship leaves a few thousand dollars less net price, which means that it would still be a stretch. That means that the OP needs an automatic full ride for a safety (e.g. Howard, Louisiana Tech, Prairie View A&M).</p>
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<p>However, a student needing a lot of financial aid may find UVA to have a more affordable net price than VT.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input ucbalumnus. Also saw a scholarship for Bama for first-gen students. Not automatic, but also an extra 5K/year.</p>
<p>[Lafayette</a> College Admissions Information - CollegeData College Profile](<a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=799]Lafayette”>http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=799) indicates that Lafayette considers “level of applicant’s interest” in admissions. Therefore, it should not be considered a safety.</p>
<p>For reach schools, what about MIT and Stanford?</p>
<p>You can also try for various full ride merit scholarships like Park at NCSU.</p>
<p>I didn’t even consider MIT or stanford because of their admissions. I just don’t think my profile is good enough. Do you really think i would have a shot? Same with the full ride at NC State.</p>
<p>The other schools in your reach list would also be very reachy with your scores. Try a retake of both the SAT and ACT this fall after doing test-specific preparation (although the SAT subject tests might be a problem at highly selective schools that want to see them).</p>
<p>I will be taking all three again this fall… I’m anticipating a huge jump in subject test and SAT, minor jump in ACT. Even then, I want to narrow down my reach list. Lafayette and Tufts are eliminated off my list</p>
<p>I think your list is fine. </p>
<p>I think VTech is a safety and a fine one at that. </p>
<p>They are too big to be rejecting 3.9/32-ACT in state kids.</p>
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<p>Financially, it may be too much of a stretch to be a safety, based on its net price calculator result. A safety must be affordable.</p>
<p>I’m set with my matches and safeties, really just trying to narrow down my reach list.</p>
<p>Updated List:</p>
<p>Reaches:
MIT (worth applying?)
Stanford
Cornell (need to raise SAT II’s)
Northwestern
John Hopkins
Duke
UPenn
Vanderbilt
Brown </p>
<p>Match-Reach:
UVA</p>
<p>Matches:
Virginia Tech
Lehigh </p>
<p>Safeties:
University of Alabama
Lousiana Tech</p>
<p>I’m hoping that it’s almost guaranteed that I’m accepted to Vtech! Won’t be as affordable as some of the private schools though so we’ll see.</p>