Otterma I was just at Cal Poly and the admit guy said they calculate their own ACT composite with English and math only, which drops me from a 34 to a 32. Same for GA tech I think. I wish that wasn’t right but my aunt & mom were there and that’s what they thought he meant too.
Look into Case Western Reserve University
I am happy to report that I studied hard over the summer and have a math score of 33 now! Composite of 34. I didn’t think a prep course would help, but it did. So hopefully I have a good shot at my schools-
Cal Poly, Ga Tech, Purdue, Penn State, VA Tech, Univ. Maryland.
Thanks!
Also maybe UIUC, might be a long shot though. And UAH.
Congrats! You should get into the schools on your list, including UIUC and UAH.
Other good eng schools to consider where you’d likely get in are RPI (perhaps with some merit) and Case Western.
If you like California, I’d recommend UCSB which has an excellent engineering program (arguably better than some of those on your list).
Thanks! I’m really intent on aerospace, tho, so those schools are kind of what I came up with. based on that major.
In that case, you should consider TA&M as well.
You were fine for Cal Poly even before the increase. Their ACT Math interquartile range is 26 to 31.
Cal Poly shows some frosh class admission stats by division at http://admissions.calpoly.edu/prospective/profile.html .
Engineering had significantly higher GPA and test scores than the other divisions.
I actually got to visit Cal Poly and was kind of shocked at how high the average test scores were for engineering which is why I panicked with a 30. This year it is 33! It is actually like that pretty much everywhere, you kind of have to dig down to find out what the scores are for the engineering college, and they’re always higher. Sometimes a lot higher
The frustrating thing was that my counselor didn’t seem to understand that it was different for engineering but my mom kind of knew because my brother is an engineer so we figured it out
insanedreamer, Texas A & M was on my list but I ran out of time and am past the date where I might get into the honors college which I would really want to do at a huge school like that. Their application required like 5 essays and they don’t take the Common app. Didn’t think my chances were good anyway since they take so few OOS. Oh well.
Texas A&M has “academic admits” purely by stats: http://admissions.tamu.edu/freshman/admitted
However, this does not necessarily include admission to the desired major, so the essays may be relevant. Also, Texas A&M only admits to first year pre-engineering, so students must compete for entry to their majors later with college grades and essays (though 3.5 college GPA automatically admits to the major).
Well, my brother is in engineering grad school there, and his advice was don’t come. Because of that first year and the competition to get into the major, he said the first year engineering is brutal, haha I guess that also had something to do with my decision
But the grad school is great he likes it a lot.
Happy for you to improve, but really not much to stress about a 30 in Math on ACT. Admissions is not really as much about that as many would have you believe. Just because the average admitted student had a 33 in Math, does not really have anything to do with whether the 33 (versus a 30) had any bearing on the admission decision. Most often, you will see highly qualified students attracted to certain schools, but the school may have a much lower expectation of scores than the student actually received. You are a perfect example of that. You earned a 30, but went back and enhanced your grade. You make likely have been admitted to whatever school with the 30, but because you panicked, you re-took and got a higher score.
@emptyMT If you haven’t seen it, ASEE has an index of universities that (for most of them) includes stats for the engineering colleges/departments specifically. http://profiles.asee.org/
That link is a good one hopeyhippie. This thread has been very encouraging to me, thanks
Georgia Tech, UIUC, UW Madison, VA Tech, RPI
Congrats on getting your math score up. It looks like you’re mostly interested in OOS public schools (?) Have you looked at smaller private engineering schools like WPI or RPI? Schools like these have a few benefits such as ease of changing majors and (often) unrestricted placement into the major of your choice. Both WPI and RPI have respected aerospace programs.
GraniteStateMom- There isn’t an aero major in my state, so I pretty much have to go far and pay a lot, lol.
I have heard RPI mentioned a lot, but it seems hard to get to? New York state, right? I have a friend who went to school in Vermont and that’s two connections for her, getting home & back was sometimes pretty hard esp. in the winter. I guess I wouldn’t know unless I visited.
You don’t need an aero major. Look for a Mech E major with aero classes.