what are my chances of getting in Virginia Tech or Penn State's engineering program?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I will be a senior this coming fall and for the past two years I’ve been going back and forth on what it is I want to do with myself and what to go into in college. I’ve been teetering between International Affairs and Engineering and have recently decided that engineering would be a better fit for me… Saying that, I do have some worries about getting into an engineering programs due to the selection of classes I have taken.

Overall my high school career has always been good and has always a gradual increase each year. A majority of the classes I take are honors. My school is in Pennsylvania and it is a private school however it only offers a handful of AP courses of none I’ve taken or signed up for this year. My classes i have selected for this year are mainly honors courses with a few academic classes thrown in. I have intentions of taking two dual-enrollment classes, one being Pre-Calculus and the other Calculus in the spring.

I will graduate with a 3.8, top 25% in my class of 200, a ton of ECs, an internship, and two math college credits. What are my chances of getting into these two schools and what can I do to improve my chances of getting in?

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Is the 3.8 weighted or unweighted?

What are your SAT or ACT scores?

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It’s weighted and my SATs weren’t the best so I’m submitting my ACTs that were a 25 or 26

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They’re high matches to low reaches. Your course rigor isn’t very strong and an act 25-26 is bottom 25% for engineering.

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I don’t know much about Penn State, but you should be able to get into VT. It’s a little hard to say since you’re out of state, but your chances look pretty decent to me. However, I’m not sure how easy it would be for you to get into VT’s engineering school - I know a person (in-state) who had a GPA very close to yours but a higher ACT score who got into VT in general, but not their engineering school. Also, I’ve heard that VT’s financial aid isn’t that great for in-state students, so I can’t imagine it would be much better for OOS students… so that’s something to keep in mind. Make sure to run your information through a net price calculator.