<p>Hello everone. I was just hoping to get everyone's opinion of which of the following colleges that I have yet to hear from I will get into. As reference, I was rejected REA from Stanford, and Got a Full Ride to Rutgers.
Colleges:
Duke
Cornell
UPenn
Carnegie Mellon
Vanderbilt
U Maryland</p>
<p>State: NJ
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian
UW-3.80
W-4.60
Rank- School Does Not Rank
SAT- Cr:800 Math:770 Writing:800 Comp: 2370
SAT II- Biology 660 (Did not send to all schools), Math II 780, Literature 710</p>
<p>AP's -
Already Taken:
AP Comp Sci- 5
AP US II- 5
AP English Lang- 5
Currently Taking:
AP Physics
AP French
BC Calculus
AP Statistics
AP English
EC's</p>
<pre><code>* Student Council 9, 10, 12
* Jewish Youth Group 10, 11, President (12)
* Basketball 9
* Cross Country 12
* Baseball [9-12]
* National Honor Society, Science National Honor Society, French National Honor Society
* District Technology steering Committee (9,11)
* French Club [9-12]
* Worked as Soccer Referee, and also at High School in Tech Department
* Large Amount of Community Service hours in Jewish Youth Group
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<p>Awards:
Many awards, the main one being National Merit Scholar Semifinalist.</p>
<p>Very impressive. You shouldn’t have difficulty getting into any of those schools. The only thing that might be killing you is that you don’t really have any engineering experience beyond your school curriculum. Such competitive engineering programs as the ones you’re applying to really want to see that you’ve taken steps to pursue the field.</p>
<p>All you have is District Technology steering Committee, which doesn’t sound very intensive when compared to internships and summer programs that other applicants might have for such high-tier engineering schools. Honestly, the reading I’m getting is that you know that engineering is for brilliant people and you know you’re brilliant, so you want to be an engineer. And your stats are fantastic enough to make it happen.</p>
<p>Reading over what I’ve written above, it sounds discouraging. I don’t mean it to be at all. I believe that you’ll get into those schools, but I figured that you’d rather hear something constructive than “you’re really smart, you’ll get in,” you know? Anyway, I hope this helps.</p>
<p>I appreciate the response. Not sure how much it will count, but did take a 3 credit engineering course at UMD this past summer. Figured that might only help me to get into Maryland. Sort of regretting not getting involved in robotics at this point.</p>
<p>Your SAT is really strong, and so is your GPA. Sorry to hear about Stanford but you definitely are well qualified and have a good shot at getting into all of those schools.
Best of Luck to You!!!
chance me back please too</p>