@cooldude234 you are just making duplicate thread with different schools, like your Georgia Tech thread. Since these are some of the hardest schools for an out of state student for engineering to get into, the advice will be the same. You need to get the Sat scores way up. Yes, there are outliers that will tell you someone got in with your scores. But that will be few and far between. You need to be in the 75% of the stats of that school to even be looked at. You work at a test prep company. Challenge them to get your scores up. It’s brilliant that you work there.
You will get the same response for Berkeley, Vanderbilt, WashU, Northwestern, Illinois, Cornell, Michigan.
Yes, you are compared to your school /district but until they do away with standardized testing, they still count.
My son with 34 Act (35’s in math /science) with tons of engineering things, was rejected by Austin and wait listed by GT. He’s at Michigan in engineering.
Many families at their open house kids were rejected by the list I stated but all accepted at Michigan. I know the opposite was true also. Many Texas, Georgia kids were rejected by their own state schools.
What is your state school’s? Usually your best option including financially.
What I “made” my son do was look at the top ten schools (he was more fixated on that) but to pick and apply to some schools as back ups in the 11-20,21-30 and do on to about 50 or other schools he liked. What “we” both found out is that there are some truly great schools, with great merit out there. It is a competitive time to apply for engineering. Have safeties to your safeties.
He got accepted to 3-4 (forgot) in the top ten but accepted to pretty much everything below that. (take out Vanderbilt).
As I told both my kids… You will get accepted, deferred, rejected and wait listed by some really great schools. Just put yourself in the best situation to get accepted.