<p>Right. Stanford and Harvard are so filthy rich, it’s sick. MIT and Caltech are a couple of the richest schools around as well. </p>
<p>I’m absolutely certain that needing financial aid would not disadvantage you at any of those schools.</p>
<p>In fact, I’m quite certain they would meet full need and not blink an eye.</p>
<p>It’s schools like George Washington and Tufts that don’t have nearly as big an endowment where needing heavy financial aid may be detrimental to you.</p>
<p>If you ask for a fee waiver, that alone gives the school an indicator.</p>
<p>As far as I am concerned, 36 does not get people in automatically. 36 when someone is from a low income first gen family DOES.</p>
<p>I believe Gates Foundation also has low income scholarships?</p>
<p>Wow does first generation/low income really get that much of an advantage?</p>
<p><a href=“2014 Ivy League Admissions Statistics | Ivy Coach”>http://theivycoach.com/2014-ivy-league-admissions-statistics/</a></p>
<p><a href=“Undergraduate Admissions – MIT Facts”>http://web.mit.edu/facts/admission.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“https://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/pdf/counselor_newsletter/cn_fall11.pdf”>https://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/pdf/counselor_newsletter/cn_fall11.pdf</a></p>
<p>Look for first generation numbers published for each college.</p>
<p>All of them hover around ~15%. Does that mean first generation get the same treatment as URM like being Hispanic which hovers around the same number?</p>
<p>Plus if you do EA to MIT/Caltech you can do EA to a lot of schools ( U Michigan for example, check out free application thread), while SCEA kind of limiting you to just one school.</p>
<p>@DrGoogle what other top schools offer non restrictive EA? The only ones I know of are MIT, Caltech, Michigan, and University of Chicago</p>
<p>Boston College, Georgetown, Notre Dame
Northeastern(Safety)</p>
<p><a href=“College Lists Wiki / US Schools with Early Action Decision Plans”>College Lists Wiki / College Lists Wiki News and Information;
<p>Though those are 4 good ones to try for. U of C doesn’t have ChemE (but will offer an out-of-the-box molecular engineering major). Personally, I’m not a fan of ChemE, anyway.</p>
<p>@PurpleTitan may I ask why? Is it just personal preference?</p>
<p>About ChemE? A HS friend of my mom’s who has a PhD in chemistry warned her to warn me away from anything to do with chemistry. Too many dangerous compounds. Evidently she saw one too many workplace accidents. Labs may have gotten safer since then, however. Also, granted, chemistry and ChemE are different.</p>
<p>Also, at the college I went to when I went there, ChemE students got their GPAs killed. At least at that time and place, the ChemE profs were most . . .macho? sadistic? in the engineering school in terms of how they graded. A girl who was a ChemE major said she talked with a friend about transferring, but they stayed put because they realized that their GPA would look horrible in any other major.</p>
<p>Also, yes, personal preference; chemistry was my least favorite science because of the memorization.</p>
<p>What are your reasons for wanting to go in to ChemE?</p>
<p>@PurpleTitan haha contrastingly chemistry was my favorite science class by far and I just fell in love with it. Last summer I interned for a chemistry material science professor and loved it, and realized this is something I may want to do for the rest of my life. Also, physics is my second favorite subject, and considering engineering has far better job prospects than a physical science, chemical engineering seems like the obvious choice for me to combine my two favorite subjects and have good job prospects after college.</p>
<p>The women in my graduating class with Chemical Engineering degree had one of the best GPAs I n that class, so it’s possible for women to do well in that major. Plus Chemical Engineering background serves well as a premed if the engineering career does not work out well.</p>
<p>@DrGoogle wouldn’t you have to take extra pre med track classes or does chemE cover pre med?</p>
<p>I don’t know the exact courses, things have changed a lot since I looked at pre-med, but I think you need one year chemistry, one year organic chemistry, one year physics, one year math, and one year of something new like psychology or sociology, etc… What I’m not sure is whether or not Chemical Engineering major has to take Organic Chemistry. But I think there is a lot of overlap between the 2 majors, something like 80-90%.</p>
<p>@DrGoogle I’m pretty sure ChemE majors have to take orgo chem, but it might vary by college.</p>
<p>I typed very quickly this morning and took off, but I forgot to mention for pre-med you also need one year of biology.</p>