<p>I know its a bit late but I was kind of curious.
I am planning on majoring in BME and I have applied to Yale, UVa, MIT, VCU,
Johns Hopkins, Duke, Cornell, VT and Georgia Tech</p>
<p>I am eighth in my class of 443 students, I have an unweighted GPA of 3.90 and a weighted GPA of 4.60
My highest SAT scores are as following: Math:680 Reading:660 Writing:660
My ACT Scores are: Composite:32 English:33 Math:34 Reading:33 Science:36
I have taken/am taking tons of APs and honors classes: Calc AB and BC, Phsyics B, US History, European History, US Government, Biology, Chemistry
I have great letters of recommendation from teachers that really liked me as a student
My essays are great, and show my ambition
I have a lot of Extracurriculars some of which are very different from the usual ones. For one of the ECs I go out with a few classmates to a few local middle schools every few weeks and give a presentation on something Science or Engineering related and then do fun experiments with the kids. </p>
<p>You forgot to indicate what’s in-state for you (VA?) and how much your parents can afford (because it does you no good getting into GTech and finding out your parents can’t pay $45,000 out of pocket every year). Also, are you URM, first-gen, attending school in a rural area/high school that sends few kids to the colleges you applied to?</p>
<p>I am in Virginia, and my parents can afford out some of the high tuitions out of state I am considered a first generation college student. Im not in a fairly suburban area that sends a good amount of students to the state schools but not many for the top tier schools. </p>
<p>Vtech is a match, VCU is a safety, GTech is unlikely to be affordable unless your parents have 200k in a college fund, and all others are crapshoots</p>
<p>It seems you are doing slightly better with ACT than SAT, however, most schools do not superscore ACT. You do have the potential to get 34 in ACT if you do some more preparation. That would significantly increase your chance to some of these schools. Your GPA is near admission average for top schools and above average for some schools on the list. However, your SAT1 and SAT2 scores are suboptimal. Particularly, Math2 at 690 is only around 50% and is far from the average of engineering students in any of the schools on your list…</p>
<p>I think UVA is a match but sometimes you will never know! Even though their engineering school has the highest acceptance rate, some of the most qualified people apply there. So that acceptance rate can trick you. Your scores and gpa are great. You just need good essays and other stuff.
Georgia Tech- high match
yale- reach
MIT-reach
VCU- low match
John Hopkins- reach
Duke- reach
Cornell- low reach
VT- safety
I got into VT’s engineering school with a 3.8 (uw) and a 31!</p>
<p>I think you have a very good chance with all instate schools but you have to understand engineering is usually the hardest school to get into. All the OOS one’s are reaches because they are some of the best schools except Georgia tech is a high match. </p>
<p>I realize that my SAT1 scores aren’t that great but I was hoping that most colleges will see that I did do better on the ACT, as for the SAT2 scores, I was going to take the Math2 again, but my payment was never processed so I never managed to retake it. </p>
<p>Most scores look at the sections on the ACT and not the overall composite. About, GPA did you get the b’s in your freshman year or recently. That could be something to look at when applying to these top notch schools. </p>
<p>@BB8764,
That is not true. Unlike SAT, most stat are composite ACT from a single sitting, not section scores. Also, you need to pay for each score submission. Most schools will look at the composite scores and some may look in the the section scores of the submitted reports. Very few schools superscore ACT, i.e. look at the composite of the highest section scores.</p>
<p>I’m not saying that. I’m saying some schools say they look more at the sections than the composite as a whole. So some schools he’s applying to will see that his section scores are higher than his highest composite score and will care more about the section score. No, they don’t super score for a new composite but many systems at top schools pull the highest selection of section scores. @billcsho</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of a school doing unweighted gpa that way.<br>
Most schools make all As 4, Bs 3, Cs 2, Ds 1, and Fs 0. </p>
<p>My school has it as A=4, A-=3.7,B+=3.3, B=3 and so on, while weighted is scores are calculated with honors and AP class weight added onto the unweighted score. </p>
<p>^ That is one of the most typical ways HS calculate GPA. Some colleges may recalculate GPA using their method. I would not say most schools though. Many schools drop the subgrades, some drop the freshmen grades, and some drop the non-core subjects.</p>