<p>Hey guys,
So I'm interested in applying to the engineering schools, specifically mechanical engineering. I'm a rising senior, a white male, and I live in NY. As it stands:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.7 (on a 4.33 scale)
SAT I: Math=800 CR=710 Writing=680 Composite=2190
Math II SAT:740
I'm going to take the Chem SAT in the fall</p>
<p>As for clubs, I'll be doing 4 years of student gov't treasurer, I'm on an award winning FIRST robotics team (treasurer for 2 years), I'm almost an eagle scout, I'm on the schools track team, I ski, and I plan on spending the summer interning for a Mech E professor at a very well ranked engineering school.</p>
<p>Schools I'm looking at include:
University of Illinois U-C
University of Michigan-AA
NYU
Cornell
UT Austin
BU
UC Berkeley
Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>If you guys have any other suggestions, I would appreciate those as well. Thanks.</p>
<p>UIUC: Match
UMI: High match
NYU: Match (financial aid sucks)
Cornell: Reach
BU: Match
Berkeley: Match (can you pay full-freight?)
UT-Austin Cockrell: Match/High match
CMU: Low reach</p>
<p>If you learned some French, and no financial aid package would make you come within $20k+room+board, perhaps Polytechnique (Montreal) should be a safety to consider… with one caveat that Polytechnique has no food plan.</p>
<p>University of Illinois U-C: Low match
University of Michigan-AA: Match
NYU: Match
Cornell: Reach
UT Austin: Match
BU: Safety
UC Berkeley: Reach
Carnegie Mellon: Low reach/high Match</p>
<p>One thing: NYU doesn’t have an engineering department, and you’ll be attending NYU-Poly if you’re doing engineering.</p>
<p>For another reach, you could consider Cooper Union. Great for engineering, and very competitive, but it’s free.
What are your safeties?</p>
<p>Also, about the Poly schools, it’s being merged into NYU, and the merger is supposedly going to be completed January of next year, meaning it will officially be a part of NYU</p>
<p>Your GPA is rather low for top schools. Here are your chances:</p>
<p>University of Illinois U-C: Match
University of Michigan-AA: Low Reach to High Match (GPA far below average, SAT right at average for CoE).
NYU: Low Reach
Cornell: Reach
UT Austin: Match
BU: High Match
UC Berkeley: Low Reach
Carnegie Mellon: Low reach</p>
<p>I think on a 4.0 my gpa is about 3.6 (dunno what that is weighted, but my 4.33 scale weighted is 4.56), so I’m probably screwed for most of them but the one I really like is UIUC.</p>