Which of these schools are similar or a step-up from our state school?

So he isn’t auto admit to engineering, right? Those stats might not (will not to quite a few) get him in to competitive engineering OOS, just as he wouldn’t get into UT if he were OOS for Tx. Is he guaranteed for Engineering in any Texas schools?

These would seem to be big reaches for admission, period, let alone eng. I am not sure I ouwld encourage my kid to bother on those current stats.

Duke
Carnegie Mellon
Georgia Tech
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins