<p>Minus tier 1 schools, I'm looking for some sort of list of schools for someone with 3.74~ GPA, 2100 SATs and such in my target section and maybe some reaches. I'm looking at georgia tech, RPI, RIT, villanova/Purdue, univ of michigan. I'm not sure what engineering I want to be yet.. either electrical, aerospace, or chemical. If someone could give a link on like some description or a site that helps undergrads/high school students find out which field is best for them, that'd be great! thanks.</p>
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<p>Look through all the employee interviews across different disciplines to see what life might be like after college.</p>
<p>You consider Ga Tech, Michigan and Purdue not to be top tier universities? Unless you consider Stanford and MIT in a class of your own, then you are a little bit off there. Those are all top 10 engineering schools.</p>
<p>I’m not saying top tier universities, i’m just saying they’re not "Brand-names or schools with sub 25 admission rates. GA Tech, michigan, and purdue are among the top 10 schools for engineering so yes in my eyes they are top tier universities and luckily they aren’t as strict in admissions. </p>
<p>Clearly what I meant was top universities that have strict admission rates and not degrading ga tech or purdue in any way. (You don’t insult schools when you only have a 3.74 gpa)</p>
<p>Look into state schools: Texas, TAMU, UIUC, UC Berkley U-Madison or Vtech.</p>
<p>Honestly though, the only other top programs with harder admission standards would be Caltech, MIT and Stanford. While admission selectivity will vary, I don’t feel that there is a huge discrepancy between the Caltechs or Stanford and the aforementioned top schools.</p>
<p>Your SAT is more of a problem than your GPA. Consider Harvey Mudd for general engineering if you are unsure which you want if you boost your SAT.</p>
<p>Correct me if I am wrong, mrego, but isnt Harvey Mudd like ultra-selective since it is so small?</p>
<p>^You are correct if by ‘ultra-selective’ you mean they accept only 36% of applicants. You can compare that to others mentioned above. My point was that they don’t have ME, EE, CHEME, Civil, etc. just a general ‘Engineering’ since the OP was uncertain which he wanted.</p>
<p>The 36% is only after a large self selection of applicants, for the most part only very strong students apply to HMC in the first place. Just look at the average GPA and SAT score of HMC to see that this is the case. So it is indeed ‘ultra-selective’, at least relative to most of the schools mentioned.</p>