<p>I'm currently attending a community college in Washington State with a 3.67 college GPA (mostly 4.0 in prerequisite courses), thinking of transfering Fall 2005, and planning to majoring in Engineering. </p>
<p>Please recommend some safeties and matches that have good engineering program but don't put much weights on ECs, as mine is extremely horrible (involved in school's tech fee commitee, a Phi Theta Kappa member, doing some voluntary working in local church, but that's practically all about it). </p>
<p>Will Rose Hulman, University of Washington, University of Texas Austin, Embry Ridle in Florida, University of Florida and University of Minnesota Twin Cities be too much of a stretch? How about Cal Poly Pomona, Texas A&M College Station, and <em>gasp</em> Harvey Mudd? You can count out the Ivies by the way. </p>
<p>Anyway, some extra information is(some of them may not matter at all as I'm a transfer student):
SAT I best i one sitting 1250 (740 M 510 V)
SAT I best composite 1270 (760 M 510 V)
SAT Math IIC 800
SAT Physics 660 (will retake in January along with writing)
TOEFL in January (what would be a competitive score?)</p>
<p>An admissions officer at UT - Austin informed me that 3.6 was the cutoff GPA for transfers. I do not think they even require a high school transcript, or SAT score for that matter (though you might want to double check). If you apply to UT Austin and intend on majoring in Engineering, you might be in for some trouble as I am unsure about the statistics or the competitiveness of entering into such a program.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply, but how about ECs, and the other colleges I listed above? And what do you mean by "in for some trouble"? Any suggestions as for other safeties and matches? Anyway, I just got my fall quarter's grades and my overall GPA raises up to 3.73.</p>
<p>I do not know about other colleges, just UT. The reason you might be in for some trouble in terms of engineering is because I hear the program is highly competitive and, thus, might operate on a different calculus for admissions. You might be even more competitive for an Ivy if you boosted your SAT, especially your verbal score.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply. I wish I had more time to raisde up my verbal score, but I think retaking physics subject test would be more necessary, and I would need to take writing anyway. Would a decent to good (600+) writing score somehow obscure a horrible verbal score (coupled with the fact that I took SAT I about a year ago, when I was barely able to read in English)?</p>