Which engineering schools to apply to? Please quide me.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Junior looking for good engineering school matches. Both in-state (CA), and out of state.
Entering senior year at school ( graduating 2010) in Orange county CA, Irvine school district, public school. I heard UC system will get a lot tougher to get in due to budget issues.</p>

<p>Grades not good in Freshman and sophomore year. Doing well in Junior year
Junior year GPA weighted 4.33</p>

<p>High school GPA summary</p>

<p>9-11 grade GPA --- 3.5 weighted 3.3 Unweighted
10-11 UC GPA --- 3.8 weighted 3.56 unweighted</p>

<p>Strong in Math and science classes at school,</p>

<p>AP CS, Honors pre calc, AP statistics in junior year
signed up for AP Calc, AP Physics in senior year</p>

<p>SAT 2010 -- Math 760, 630 Reading, 620 writing
ACT composite -- 32</p>

<p>EC -- Eagle scout ( 8 years of scouting, may be 9)
-- selected for HS comp science competition team
-- Principals honor role - junior year
-- Karate for more then 10 years -- working on Black Belt
-- won a couple of awards in elementary and middle schools for Science invention
contest - may not mean anything for college
-- good with computers -- many programming languages, created \ worked on a
few web sites, one for Non profit ( Kids who care fundation) .
--- About 300 voluntary hours -- library, Food for homeless, service project in scouts
-- tried other clubs in school for a few semesters - did not like any -- preferred to to
stick with scouts, computers and Karate</p>

<p>Want to do electrical or computer engineering ---</p>

<p>suggest some safe schools and some top rated schools where I stand a chance.</p>

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<p>reach - mit, caltech, HYPSM</p>

<p>low reach - duke, case, northwestern, berkley, boston</p>

<p>easy - osu, emory, u cinn, u. texas</p>

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<p>high reach- HYPS
reach- duke, northwestern, chicago
low reach- washU, brown, berkely (since its homestate)
match-UCLA, ^above mentioned.</p>

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<p>What about University of Washington, University of Colorado Boulder, RPI, Virginia tech.</p>

<p>In CA – UC Davis, Santa Barbara, CAL poly SLO</p>

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<p>s.dude is way off.</p>

<p>some good match/safeties: Purdue, Rose-Hulman, UIUC, RPI, and look at GaTech.</p>

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<p>Thanks Schee410 - I assume I don’t stand a chance at Rice. What about UT Austin,
Texas A&M?</p>

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<p>Actually, Rice would probably be a slight- to mid-reach, as long as you continue your GPA trend upwards. The SAT CR/W sections are on the lower end of the applicant pool though. </p>

<p>You should be fine at A&M and Texas, although I’m not completely familiar with their OOS policy.</p>