What shools my son can get in? GPA 3.4~3.5 W/SAT I 1200

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<p>My son's GPA 3.43 W(taken AP's and H's) /3.0 UW at a public high and His Sat I Math 650, CR 550 and WR 500. What schools can fit into him? he likes engineering as a major. Welcome your suggestions. Is he a B or B+ student?</p>

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<p>Your son can get into many, many colleges with those statistics, so to pick a college in general, there are a lot of other questions to considers, including size of school, region of the country, urban or rural, and intended major. Since you specifically mentioned an engineering major, two schools that come to mind are

<p>For thinking about an engineering major in particular, I’m going to refer you to this earlier thread but read the whole thing. There is a lot of diversity of opinion on here, and several posters suggest that only A students can become engineers - and others, of course, disagree. </p>

<p>On the other hand, either MS&T or MTU have other majors available, but they really are tech schools, so if he decides he wants to be an psychology major instead, he may not be happy. Here is the earlier thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/535764-need-advice-engineering-major-good-not-great-student.html?highlight=Missouri[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/535764-need-advice-engineering-major-good-not-great-student.html?highlight=Missouri&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>If he really wants to become an engineer, a very important consideration for him is to be sure he does not go to a weed’em out school, a school where they make an effort to cut down the number of engineering majors early on by having the early courses be very difficult. This is not uncommon and would not be a good situation for a student who earned B to B+ grades in high school.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>Large state universities tend to do this. It’s the same for pre-med. I call it the “change your major every quarter” syndrome. In my school there were 450 people in the first Chemistry class (mostly pre-med), 300 in the second, 150 in the third, and by the time it got to Organic Chemistry only 100 were left. Guess what that did to the curve.</p>

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<p>I second Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla . Not very big, easy to get into, and will have many students with similar interests.</p>

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<p>Universtiy of New Hampshire would work if that location interests him. Strong Engineering department. Nice campus, nice college town.</p>

<p>I could probably recommend a number of others, but would like to hear what his geographic and school type preferences are.</p>

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<p>Lots and lots of schools!!
I agree with jmmom - lets here what he wants in a school - size, geography, public/private and what kind of engineering is he interested in - civil, mechanical etc…</p>

<p>My daughter had very similar stats - nearly identical SAT’s - she got into Colorado School of Mines, Temple University and West Point.</p>

<p>I also agree with UNH’s engineering dept being top notch! It is a great one!</p>

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<p>Thanks a lot.
We prefer new england area and some upper states east coast, like NY, NJ, PA, DE. Public or private is fine. We do not really care the size. He wants to get in a better school and may change major during first year or two, but the school better has engineering which is primary target. I live in Boston area.</p>

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<p>The school that pops out at me with that info is Roger Williams. My son’s good friend is an engineering major there, and very happy. I believe he had stats similar or less than your S.</p>

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<p>Back in my day - engineering was a big “weed 'em out” major. Some schools may also be this way.<br>
I don’t believe UNH is a weed 'em out school - my nephew had a fabulous engineering experience there, even if it took 5 years to graduate. After graduation he negotiated his job offers and got two weeks off in the winter to ski in France. It was unreal.</p>

<p>I hope you do check out UNH. They have a fantastic engineering department. Durham is a wonderful college town.<br>
OOS is quite competitive to gain admission and expensive.</p>

<p>In PA there is of course Penn State - a huge public - but a very good engineering department as well. He probably would have to do his first two years at a satellite campus as entry to University Park as a freshman is quite competitive.
He should also check out Drexel (Philadelphia) and Temple.
Drexel has a very well known coop program as does Northeastern.</p>

<p>My daughter nearly went to Temple - I was very impressed when we visited. They expected all engineering majors to graduate. in engineering. They seemed to be very supportive.</p>

<p>Did you check out NJIT? I hear it’s a good school.</p>

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<p>My S GPA 3.43 W(taken AP’s and H’s, high school’s weighted)/3.0 UW at a public high and His Sat I Math 650, CR 550 and WR 500. What are possibilities for the following schools in an engineering major:
UMASS Amherst
Northeastern
WPI
RIT
UConn
URI
Rutgers
Clarkson</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>what state do you live in?</p>

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<p>We live in MA</p>

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<p>Student with similar GPA/test scores and engineering bent went to Purdue from our school.</p>

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<p>He should have no problem getting into U of Hartford</p>

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<p>UConn might be a bit of a challenge - it’s getting more selective for OOS, but you never know. It’s engineering. </p>

<p>Is your son a junior - I hope? Many schools have open houses by major. Take advantage of some engineering open houses. They give you a good feel of not only the school but the department as well.</p>