<p>I want to get into a top Ivy League college for engineering such as MIT. What should my standardized test scores be like? Also what Subject Sat should I take? I have my extracurriculars packed with research and tons of volunteering...</p>
<p>Do the top universities even care about Math 1 and also what scores are good enough on the subject sat, ACT, or SAT say for colleges such as MIT or CalTech,etc?</p>
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<li><p>MIT is not in the Ivy League.</p></li>
<li><p>Most Ivy League colleges’ engineering is not considered to be among their strongest subjects. Many less selective schools have good engineering.</p></li>
<li><p>Test requirements for application can be found on schools’ web sites. Engineering hopefuls to schools which require or recommend subject tests should generally include math (level 2 if you have completed trigonometry and precalculus) and a science.</p></li>
<li><p>Super selective schools probably want to see a 4.0 GPA or close to that in the hardest courses you can take, as close to maximum as possible on all standardized tests, and high level award or extracurricular achievement.</p></li>
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<p>I wouldn’t apply to any of the ivies for engineering other than Cornell and maybe UPenn or Columbia (depending on your intended major). The rest don’t have relatively strong departments in most engineering fields. </p>
<p>State schools in general however, have much better engineering programs (but bigger classes, arguably less faculty interaction than privates)… UMich, Cal, UCSD, UCLA, UIUC, and Georgia Tech are all good choices just to name a few (if you can afford OOS tuition). They’re all also MUCH easier to get into than most decent private schools for engineering (CalTech, MIT, Stanford, CMU etc).</p>
<p>You can send in a Math I score to most schools if you plan to major in engineering since they accept either I or II. But I think it’d be better to take both, and if you get higher than ~740 on II, submit it.</p>
<p>Other top Engineering programs: Purdue, Rose Hulman.</p>
<p>You should also look at each school’s “common data set”, section C, which displays the metrics of admitted freshmen. This tells you what a viable candidate looks like. Google for this.</p>