<p>Hi I just wanted to ask a few questions and also get my rating for HS.</p>
<p>Before I post my stats I would like to ask a question. I transferred high schools after freshman year. My credits from freshman year are on my current hs transcript but are only on factored credits. When I apply to college do I have to give them my old transcript or is my current one fine?</p>
<p>I am a High school Junior
Freshman Year I was really adjusting and got a 2.0/2.0(two terms) gpa
Sophmore year I received a 3.0/2.7 (two terms)
Junior year I will finish with a 3.0/3.76 </p>
<p>Will my senior first term even factor in?</p>
<p>Sat: 2260
Have not taken Sat II yet but will take physics and math 2</p>
<p>EC:
Journalist for School Newspaper jr
Sprinter on track team jr
Chess Team jr
Chess Club jr
NYU Science Technology and Engineering Program for 2 years so and jr
Invited and Attended National Student Leadership Conference
Decently proficient in Japanese
Piano
Child Care
I have 200+ hours service</p>
<p>I want to major in engineering. I know schools such as MIT,UCB, CalTech, and Carnegie Mellon are way out of reach. What schools would you all recommend I apply to?</p>
<p>Apply to Purdue. It has a great engineering school and you prob won’t get in as a direct admit but you’ll be able to switch in if you do well your first years of college. You should get into the school itself though with your stats.</p>
<p>The good news is you don’t have to give them your old transcript from your old highschool, just the one you are in now. So, you’re actually in pretty good shape.</p>
<p>Of course, there may be some places where you DO have to give that transcript, but not many. Anyway, with your test scores and your grades, sans freshman year, you’ll do fine. </p>
<p>If money is no object, you’ll do very well and can apply to all sorts of places all over the map and see where you want to go. But the most important step you can take is to find a couple of schools you KNOW you will get into and and really could love going to, after that you can look up the ladder.</p>
<p>The best recommendation for doing this I ever heard was on CC, and I wish I could recall who the poster was, but he/she said, find the school you absolutely most want to go to, and then find the lesser stat schools like that one when looking for a safety. If money is an issue, you have to figure that out, though, and that’s another thing altogether.</p>
<p>If only the credits are on your transcript from your freshman year and not your grades you may have to supply the previous transcript. With your grades you may have your best shot at your state U. What is your home state?</p>
<p>fwiw-- my daughter transfered to a boarding school after her freshman year in hs. The had her credit from the previous highschool but never her grades on the transcript. that hs sent the transcript…she was accepted to to 20 schools and nobody ever asked for her freshman transcript. personal experience.</p>
<p>Your current HS transcript is all that colleges will look at. Some schools, like JHU, don’t even look at freshman year grades at all anyway.</p>
<p>If you’re a girl going into engineering, you’ve got a great hook. Most got snapped up into those very top schools this year. If you’re a guy, aim for some larger colleges, like a state U or Ga Tech / Va Tech.</p>
<p>Will your parents pay $50k+ for any school that you get accepted to? If not, how much will they pay each year?</p>
<p>If money is an issue, then OOS publics are probably not a good idea unless you can qualify for merit scholarship (if they give them…not all do).</p>
<p>If you need scholarship money, there are some schools that might give you some.</p>
<p>Since your frosh grades don’t show up on your transcript, then what will your cumulative GPA be at the end of this year?</p>
<p>My average at the end of junior year for second term will be a 94-95(NYC grading scale). Unfortunately I turned around too late. </p>
<p>On my current transcript I have a CR instead of a grade for freshman year.
Not counting my freshman year my NYC transcript grade will be 88 and change. </p>
<p>Hopefully(not counting frosh) it can be 92+ adding in my first term of senior year. I am not taking aps now but will have AP language, AP calc, and AP chem next year.</p>
<p>Poetgrl hopefully I end up in the same boat your daughter was in.</p>
<p>These stats make you look like slacker… which no college is going to jump on. But, you might consider applying to a state school frosh year… do well, show that you are dedicated now, get above a 3.5 gpa, and transfer to a better school with a better program.</p>
<p>I’m hoping you are a male! It’s not that unusual for a guy to get off to a rough start and then start to soar. I’m glad that you are taking stuff seriously now. A strong spring semester this year is going to help you make the case that you have your act together now. </p>
<p>I am grumped by the post from snoopydog1 that implies that there is a “better” school than a state school when it comes to engineering. Hah! Try Georgia Tech or Colorado School of Mines! For that matter, aren’t MIT and CalTech state schools? There are state schools across the country that OWN engineering. That is the beauty of a state school – they tend to be pragmatic. You won’t see so many “Romantic Poetry” majors but you will see a ton of Chem Engineers and the like. </p>
<p>Quit having bumper sticker snobbism and actually start looking at the stats on engineering programs nearby. You might be stunned to see the depth and reach of the programs.</p>
<p>All engineering schools have a set of standards they have to follow for accredidation…so that the “top” schools and the “lesser” schools (take this with a humongous grain of salt, btw!), all have to teach the exact same thing to the exact same standards. It’s incredibly standardized and doesn’t really vary. fwiw.</p>
<p>Good luck to you. I think you will be pleasantly surprised, as long as you are realistic…Hope for the best, but plan for the worst, as they say. ;)</p>
<p>it would help to know if you are male or female ie…excellent schools like RPI, Carnegie Mellon are always looking for female engineering students and your SATs are strong. Also have you considered Stony Brook as an affordable option good engineering school and has a journalism program(very strong summer program in journalism too) State schools if you live in ny tend to look at sats over GPA so you would do well.</p>
<p>I do agree with AvisMath colleges like a student that may embody the Renaissance Scholar ie an engineering major that loves creative writing or journalism. If you play that up in your essays it will make you unique.</p>