Reverse Chance me/Chance me For STEM

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Rising Senior
Ethnicity: Half Hispanic and Half Korean
Income: 150k +
US Citizen
Illinois
Intended STEM Major at each school I apply to

Stats:
ACT: 34 (33 Math and Science, 35 Reading and English) NOT Superscored
SAT: Didn’t Take
UW GPA of 3.93
Weighted of 4.38
8 AP classes by the end of senior year (We aren’t allowed to take AP classes as a freshman), and about three or four dual credit classes.
Class Rank: School Rank, Estimated top 5% by my counselor who submitted that stat for a summer program.

Ec’s: (I’ll list the ones that I think are most important)
Ping Pong Club founder/co-president
Tutoring Job Throughout Sophomore year
Competitive Robotics Team Captain
Voted into Student Council as secretary every year
Science national Honors Society Vice President As of this year
Soccer
Track (State participant and varsity for all years of high school).

Volunteering:
Our school requires 25 hours minimum for every student each year, but I also tried to show my interest in environmental activities and started volunteering at a place for that this year. Not really sure if I stand out in any way as the majority of my hours are unfocused and odd jobs. I have about 100 hours.

Essays
Idk how good they will be

LOR’s:
One from AP Chemistry Teacher who was robotics coach and chemistry teacher for 2 years (8-9)
One from AP Bio teacher I have had for one year (6-8)

Preferences:
Location: Don’t really care, as long as it’s not in a dirty city.
Size: 4,000 - 15,000
Major: STEM
Greek Life would be pretty cool but not necessary.
Religion: Don’t Care
Academics: Preferably good
Cost: Pretend it doesn’t matter

CHANCE ME/EVALUATE MY LIST:
I would apply for engineering to all of these

Reaches -
Notre Dame
Wash U
Northwestern
USC
Johns Hopkins

Match -
Wisconsin Madison?
Purdue?

Safety -
Milwaukee School of Engineering

Looking for school recommendations as well.

Thanks for taking the time to read this if you did.

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Purdue doesn’t fit your size preference at all but they do have a great engineering program ; )

Lehigh seems like a good fit for you.

Also, Case Western, and RPI would fit your size criteria. Bucknell as well, although a bit on the smaller side.

If you want a smaller public to add, Pittsburgh would be worth a look.

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It would be better to change your thread title to say “engineering” (or a specific kind of engineering) instead of “STEM”, since “STEM” includes a large number of majors that are dissimilar in both admissions and curricula.

Your chosen recommenders suggested biology or pre-med, but then you later mention engineering.

In reality, it has to matter. Admission without affordability = rejection. Talk to your parents about college budget, and run the net price calculators on your colleges of interest.

Any college where you need a merit scholarship for it to be affordable must have reach/match/likely/safety based on the scholarship, not admission.

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Neither Does UW-Madison or USC

Depending on your intended major, Cal Poly would be a good addition to your list. It’s slightly bigger at 22,000, but it has the advantages of very small schools. Classes are small and all taught by professors (not technically, because some are not on the professor track, but they all have PhDs) including labs and discussions. The labs in the college of engineering are probably unparallelled for undergrads. It’s in an idyllic location.

I’d add Missouri S&T. It fits your size requirement, it’s a very good engineering program, it has a vibrant Greek system and it’s close to home. Your GPA and scores would make it a match. My sister chose it over MIT. It’s not a MSEP school, but you’d probably get money.

Adding to the money discussion, money matters, because money has opportunity cost. The money you don’t spend can be spent on something else, or even invested.

Good luck.

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I agree with all of the above - especially a Pitt, RPI, CWRU, and Lehigh. You might add UAH (great merit), Colorado School of Mines, WPI. A lot depends on do you want a STEM oriented school (RPI, WPI) or a general school that’s smaller and offers engineering.

A Cornell, Rochester, UVA, Michigan Tech, and Miami might be other suggestions given your strong #s. Good luck.

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In general, the engineering is better at the former than the latter, but your non-engineering options will be fewer if you want to change majors out of engineering.

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