<p>I have an SAT score of 2120 my first try (740CR/690W/680M) and did 150 points worse my second try. Retook a third time and expecting 2200-2250
SAT II- 780 Bio E, 760 Physics, 680 Math 1
I'm self-studying 3 AP's my senior year, (AP Lit, Chem and Calc BC)
My school doesn't use ranks, but if I had to guess I would say 3/4th out of 140, school doesn't use GPA, but about 3.8 would be accurate.
References: pretty good, approaching stellar.
As for EC's, I'm president of Student Council, Founder and Editor for the school newspaper, did quiz bowl all four years of high school and captained it 3 out of those 4, I did soccer for two summers, worked in my school's chem lab and volunteered at a summer reading program for a summer.
Ethnicity: Nigerian-American
Hook(s): I did every two years of grade school on average in a different country, and I lived in a small town during high school, so I didn't have very many opportunities for research and other EC's(I'm taking all the EC's offered and only three people at my school take AP's, the other two are only taking AP lit.) I skipped three years of elem and am now an HS Senior at 14.</p>
<p>What is your home state? What can your family afford?</p>
<p>Take a look at U of Rochester.</p>
<p>I’m OOS- I’m a US.citizen but I live in Canada and upper middle class- 150k income</p>
<p>Bump</p>
<p>What kind of academic environment are you looking for? What’s your possible major.</p>
<p>Chemical Engineering, and preferably one with research/co-op opportunities. As for size of school, as long as it’s not tiny <2000, or huge >35000, it should be ok</p>
<p>Bump</p>
<p>U Delaware has an excellent Chem E program (DuPont) and may offer merit aid. And $150K income doesn’t really say what your family can afford. Are they willing to pay $65K/year for NYU?</p>
<p>Lots of schools have a great track record in placing their students in co-ops and summer internships.</p>
<p>Around $55k is our absolute upper limit. I understand this is probably a naive point of view, but the more prestigious the better</p>
<p>Minnesota is an obvious low cost choice for chemical engineering.</p>
<p>Purdue is only ~40k for OOS students, and it is definitely “prestigious”, but probably not from your (sorry, but is naive) point of view. No, it doesn’t have a 15% acceptance rate, but it is recognized world-wide and has fantastic alumni networks and is known by engineers around the country. Now, the issue you may have is that is has approx. 38000 undergrads. If you want a smaller school, Rose Hulman is also a very good choice. It’s very accomplished and well known in the engineering world.</p>
<p>Thank You!</p>
<p>Prestige doesn’t mean much in the engineering universe in the U.S. Obviously, because of their reputation some universities are able to draw greater numbers of possible employers to their career fairs that other schools, but there are a load of top flight engineering departments out there and what counts is ABET accreditation. Your choice should be based on your career aspirations. A ChE degree from Harvard or Yale likely will provide no advantage when applying for a job with DuPont, Dow, 3M or General Motors, when competing with applicants from U of Akron, Iowa State, Minnesota or Kettering, generally speaking.</p>
<p>“A ChE degree from Harvard or Yale likely will provide no advantage when applying for a job with DuPont, Dow, 3M or General Motors, when competing with applicants from U of Akron, Iowa State, Minnesota or Kettering, generally speaking.”</p>
<p>Sorry, not buying it.</p>
<p>@LakeWashington is probably right. @wayneandgarth </p>
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<p>Is that what your parents have actually said? Do you have a college fund? If not, then it would be quite difficult to pay $55k per year for college on that income. One or two hiccups (which all families have every year!) would likely prevent them from paying that much unless the parents have $100k+ in savings for you.</p>
<p>Cooper Union
University of Chicago
Columbia University </p>
<p>wayneandgarth: ^^ I do. I don’t believe I’ve ever heard of someone who was a Harvard or Yale Engineering grad. Granted I’m from the midwest but I know engineers from all of the others he has mentioned. There are a lot of places in the Boston area I would choose for engineering before Harvard.</p>