Reaches (but not super-reaches) for a girl in engineering?

College Search & Selection
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<p>The female applicant pool is also more self-selected (in the sense that women who are blatantly unqualified are <em>overwhelmingly</em> less likely (something like a factor of seven, last I heard) to apply to MIT than men who are blatantly unqualified, and those blatantly unqualified guys drive down the male acceptance rate). Something like 38% of MIT engineering undergrads are women, now, so it is not a hook. It does not make you a special snowflake.</p>

<p>I do think you have a reasonable shot at MIT, though. If your family has “typical assets” for your income, you would probably get a full ride financially.</p>

<p>Look into Georgia Tech (in addition to what has already been suggested). It has a fairly high acceptance rate for a school of its quality.</p>

<p>If you are interested in biomedical engineering, definitely look at BU. They tend not to do so well with finaid, but you never know. I second RPI and Cornell.</p>

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<p>You should def apply to Cooper Union and Rice-- good matches. If you apply to Drexel, I’m sure you’ll get a nice scholarship, so apply there if you wish.</p>

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<p>I would look at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, University of Michigan, and UC Berkeley.</p>

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<p>MIT is much harder to get into than Cornell (and I’m in Cornell), so there’s no sense in considering Cornell too much of a reach if you’re considering MIT. </p>

<p>That being said, we need some more girls down here in Cornell engineering. Especially computer science…</p>

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<p>REACH (apply to no more than 5):
Cornell University
Duke University (only if you intend on majoring in Biomedical Engineering)
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (very limited course offerings and unproven placement record)
Harvey Mudd College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Stanford University</p>

<p>MATCH:
Carnegie Mellon University
Johns Hopkins University
Rice University
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Texas-Austin</p>

<p>SAFETY:
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Washington
University of Wisconson-Madison</p>

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<p>What field of engineering are you interested in? This should also be a factor in selecting schools.</p>

<p>I will tell you that at USC, quite a few female engineers get half/full tuition scholarships with stats similar to yours. Not a bad engineering school here either.</p>