That i won’t have science senior year? I’ve allready taken honors bio honors chem honors physics ap bio and ap chem. The only course i could take and was signed up for is ap physics which is at a different high school and my school isn’t providing transportation so i can’t take myself to that class unless i had a car which i don’t cause im poor. Should i take some BS science class thats not core or just give up on my engineering dreams?
<p>If you took those 5 science classes in H.S (and not middle school), you should be fine. Ypu have had Bio, (hons. and AP), Chem, (hons. and AP), and Physics (hons). I would say that you have plenty of science for your engineering dreams. Make sure you explain somewhere in your application, or statement, how you have dreamed of being an engineer, and how crushing it was that your school did not offer AP Physics.</p>
<p>Yea No Worries; you're pretty fluent in science as it is.</p>
<p>contact the admissions office at some of the schools you are considering and ask them for their advice. Its their job, after all, to advise applicants of what they need to do in order to prepare for admission. You don't need to worry about them "tracking" you or dinging you for asking, but if that's really a worry then use an assume name or send an email via a hotmail-type account.</p>
<p>Just take a rigorous senior schedule.</p>
<p>I think that college guides are written by English or Journalism majors because they don't cover admissions for engineers. Engineers can apply either to engineering schools or to engineering colleges within a university. Adcoms are less involved in the selection process, and the decisions are made more by the engineering faculty. (This is similar to piano majors where the music department makes the decision rather than the adcoms.) Admissions tend to be more numbers driven and the two most important numbers are your Math SAT I and your Math SAT II Ic/IIc scores. </p>
<p>Also after being admitted, freshman year is different. In most major, the faculty tries to nurture you and help you succeed. In engineering, the faculty tries to thin the herd by moving less motivated students into other majors. It is usually easier to be admitted than it is to make it thru freshman year still in your major. They say at MIT: "Getting a education at MIT is like getting a drink of water from a fire hose." I read another person saying "Imagine you like Pez candy. Now imagine eating 10**20 Pez candies." For the ivies, you always hear about how hard it is to get in. For engineering schools, you always hear about how hard the curriculum is after you get in.</p>
<p>i would second the advice of asking an admis officer. </p>
<p>dufus -- you can also apply to a college that simply has engr as a major. There are many (at least half the ivies) that don't have seperate "colleges".</p>
<p>I'll have to check that, but most of the ivies are not that strong in engineering, with exceptions.</p>
<p>ehh my parents won't get me a car so i can't take science this year. o well Texas Tech! here i come!</p>
<p>The ivies that are strong in engineering are Cornell, Princeton and Harvard. I ran thru the websites rather quickly, but some seem weak. Brown has an engineering major that is not broken down into subdivisions. The major seems to only have civil, mech, and EE. Harvard, Cornell, UPenn and Columbia have separate colleges within the university for engineering. Oddly enough, Princeton doesn't. </p>
<p>People don't normally think of engineering when they think of the ivies although some of them are strong in the field. The leaders are MIT and Caltech. After that are schools like Carnegie Mellon, Harvey Mudd, and Georgia Tech. Then schools like RIT and schools like Drexel. Also the large public universities typically have strong engineering colleges. I'm only listing representative names.</p>
<p>gfmb, this does not condemn you to texas tech...</p>
<p>i know it feels that way but it really doesn't! </p>
<p>btw, brown does have all the subdivisions. You just don't specialize until later. All the engineers major in "engineering." It's like that at a lot of schools.</p>