I used the supermatch system to see some schools in my ballpark but since it doesn’t take class schedules and weighted gpa into account, I didn’t feel like it got a good sense. So now I’m asking where I should be looking, based on the following stats.
From California
Don’t need any financial aid
want to major in engineering or architecture
public or private
would like a larger school
want to join a fraternity
cumulative gpa: 4.05
Junior year Gpa: 4.14
took AP Calc AB, AP Lang, Honors Spanish IV, and Honors Physics
this year I’m taking AP Calc BC, AP Macroeconomics, AP US Government and AP Physics
Act: only took it once
Total Score 32
Math: 35
English 32
Reading 31
Science 28
I’ve been in the choir every year of high school with my junior and senior years being in the large choir and the advanced small choir. We’re quite well known for our program and win competitions around the state. I’m a fairly talented musician and play guitar, piano and percussion but I don’t want to major in music in college.
So with this info, what schools would you recommend to me?
Any advice or comment is greatly appreciated!
Cal Poly SLO/Pomona for Architecture and Engineering.
Any of the UC’s for Engineering.
You are a competitive applicant so you have many choices.
CA:
UCSB, UCSD, and UCI are all great in state STEM schools within your reach. CalPoly could also be another great in-state look.
OOS:
Can you afford out of state tuition?
If so… (Look to the big 10 athletic conference schools)
- Purdue
- Penn State
- U of Illinois
- UMich (reach)
- Wisconsin @ Madison
- U of Minnesota
- GA Tech (reachy)
- Maryland
You can always retake standardized tests to possibly make some of the reaches more realistic! Maybe try the SAT?
I’d also suggest University of Georgia, Clemson, University of South Carolina, University of Florida, University of Alabama (merit money!).
Jcannon1023 awesome thank you, I fortunately have my tuition covered no matter the school so out of state is definitely an option. Also I’ve taken the SAT but my scores really didn’t help strengthen my application.
University of Alabama has the most amazing Greek houses.
Very good eng’g. You’d get a large merit scholarship for your stats.
Penn State is a good greek school. Does your parents work at a university? will the university pay half of the tuition?
At UA you would have 8 semesters full tuition, extra scholarship for Eng. Could use your money for room/board/frat fees. Look at the virtual tour. UA has a lot of OOS students. 30% of student body is Greek (largest Greek student body in the country).