Hi, I’m an instate student, currently high school junior.
I want to go to Rutgers new brunswick and want to major in electrical engineering
These are some infos bout me
SAT: 1350. I will take 2 more times and bring it up to 1400+
SAT subject tests: Math:800 Chemistry: not taken yet, aiming for 750+
My high school gpa (weighted) : Freshmen+sophomore: 3.7 Junior: currently 3.5 and will bring it up by little
3 years combined, I’ll probably have somewhere around 3.62
Next year classes: AP Japanese, AP psychology, Engineering design honors, English 4, Pre-calc, Biology, world civ, physical ed.
Right now Junior year, my Algebra II honors grade is C. And all my other grades are A’s and B’s, I can try and bring my Algebra to C+ by the end of the year.
My extra curricular activities are not bad, I have 150+ hours of volunteer work.
I wanna know my chances of getting into rutgers new brunswick engineering! thank you
@Apdodogg here is the admissions profile for 2017: https://admissions.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/media/Documents/2017-18_Admn_Profile-WB.pdf
Your SAT is just at 25th%. Your GPA is below 25th%.
Admission said this year’s profile is even higher. Therefore, I suggest improving your SAT and GPA.
Rutgers engineering is much better than Stevens. Stevens is not even in the same league. Nonetheless, Stevens has a good brand name recognition in NY/NJ region. The name recognition will get you somewhere but not the education you need. Columbia is a reach, very high reach, for you. Best wishes.
@Apdodogg here is the admissions profile for 2017: https://admissions.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/media/Documents/2017-18_Admn_Profile-WB.pdf
Your SAT is just at 25th%. Your GPA is below 25th%.
Admission said this year’s profile is even higher. Therefore, I suggest improving your SAT and GPA.
Rutgers engineering is much better than Stevens. Stevens is not even in the same league. Nonetheless, Stevens has a good brand name recognition in NY/NJ region. The name recognition will get you somewhere but not the education you need. Columbia is a reach, very high reach, for you. Best wishes.
@Apdodoff - Rutgers isn’t in the same league as Stevens. The breadth, depth of the Stevens engineering curriculum as well as the admissions standards of the school significantly exceeds that of Rutgers, and the outcomes of the graduates reflect that.
@Apdodogg I’ve talked to those who attended Rutgers, Stevens and NJIT combinations for BS/MS. They pick Rutgers over other two. Between NJIT and Stevens, they all say Stevens has the name recognition but NJIT has better teaching. In terms of Rutgers vs Stevens, here are the 2017 admission stats (which you can easily find these on their website): 50th % — Rutgers SAT 1350-1500, GPA 3.7-4.2—Stevens SAT 1320-1470, GPA 3.82.
A 20 point difference in SAT is statistically insignificant. The 2018 admissions stats for Stevens have gone up by 30 points or so and the average GPA of the incoming students is 3.9. Rutgers has one advantage over Stevens and only one - namely cost. In my experience, my employers all considered Rutgers to be an average public university. Stevens again has a far more in depth program and because of the depth and breadth of the curriculum (requiring many courses in engineering disciplines outside of the student’s specific major or specialty) the graduates are much more adept at solving problems of an interdisciplinary nature - which most engineering problems are. That has made Stevens engineers as highly desired by industry as they are, and as a result are the twelfth highest paid college graduates in the United States (source, Bloomberg Business Week/Payscale, "What’s Your College Degree Worth, 2017. When I was in school, Rutgers was regarded as the safety or the fallback for people who could not survive the intense workload at Stevens (and I knew several ex classmates who transferred to Rutgers and NJIT for that very reason).
I did not have the most stellar undergraduate GPA at Stevens. When was with Bell Labs, hired as a freshout with a BSEE, I was actually surprised that the leading industrial research lab in the communications, electronics, computer science, and solid state physics world would hire someone with a “lowly” 2.9 GPA. This was (still is) a company that hired only the best of the best from the leading engineering and science schools in the world. Stevens was (and still is) on Bell Labs’ short list of must-recruited schools (along with MIT, RPI, Columbia, Cooper Union, and all the other pre-eminient schools in the east. A few months after starting my first assignment, I had occasion to have lunch with the recruiter who interviewed me originally. He told me that had I come in to the interview with a 2.9 from practically any of the other area universities besides Stevens, I never would have been considered, but knowing the rigor and depth of Stevens’ curriculum, a 2.9 from Stevens meant more than a higher GPA from a lesser school. So, Rutgers over Stevens? LOL. By the way, when I was in high school I was offered a near full ride from Rutgers. I turned it down and took on student loans to attend Stevens. I haven’t regretted that one second. I also attended two other universities (including one well known one in an obscure suburb of Boston) including Stevens later for my graduate school and doctorate in engineering physics and EE. Those schools were easy after Stevens.
Of course, opinions vary and I am going by what others, engineers and scientists, including high school principals, guidance counselors, parents, etc have told me. I am not an engineering, haven’t gone to Rutgers or Stevens, have no interest or bias in one way or another. I’ve done a research on various schools. Also, another important to note: I called Princeton, UPenn, Carnegie Mellon, Rutgers, Lehigh, Stevens, etc admissions and financial aid offices to ask questions. All were pleasant, professional and informative except for Stevens. Stevens was not welcoming at all, and one of those calls went like “why are you calling me, you *$%& for the information you can find on our website”. Of course, she didn’t say it like that but her tone, her demeanor,…But again, I’ll say this, Stevens has a better brand in this region. However, based on my research, without any bias, I’ll recommend Rutgers New Brunswick Engineering over Stevens. And, I wouldn’t say Rutgers is or might be low for the Junior’s standards as those grades, scores, AP classes are borderline. The Junior may be in a surprise a year from now as Rutgers engineering admissions profile was considerably higher this year than 2017 per one of the Directors of Admissions at Rutgers. That is what a $700 million research grant, just in 2017, will do, not to mention the $200 million gift from alumni in 2017. And then, add the financial endowment over $1.2 billion on the balance sheet as of June 2017. Rutgers have been on a tear the past several years.
And if the Junior is interested in Honor College, not Honors programs, of Rutgers engineering, the Junior will need well over 1500 SAT, ton of APs and well north of 4.2 GPA. That’s about the top 5% of the admitted pool. One may think of Ivy or Elite schools at that point but we all know that those scores alone will not get you anywhere in Ivy and Elite admissions.
Update on 2018 admissions stats for RU Engineering: Less than 900 admitted for nearly 10,000 applicants. That is about 9% acceptance rate.Honor College for engineering school admitted 95. That is about 1% acceptance. The most recent Hultz winner (this is something like Nobel for universities) is Rutgers University Honor College for startup concept, competing against students around the world. RU is the only university ever to have two teams in the finals, both teams from Honor College. In the finals, they beat Harvard, yes, Harvard.