Find me a Match School :) [Info inside]

waddlelikeaducky · 05-13-2008, 01:31 PM

Information:

-Ethnicity: White
-Sex: Female
-State: NY
-Grade: 11
-Major: chemical engineering
-School: Public

-GPA: 4.0
-Rank: Top 10 out of 600+

SAT: 1870 [will retake to reach at goal of 2050]
-Math: 690
-Critical Reading:590
-Writing: 590 (8 essay)

ACT: 31 [retaking to reach a goal of 32]

Extracurriculars:
Elite Program at Westbury College.
Chamber of Commerce Student Representative
Math Team Treasurer
Science Olympiad Sec in 11th, President in 12th
Honor Society Vice President in 11th
Business Honor Society Secretary in 11th, Co president in 12th
Spanish Club 11
Foreign Language Honor Society 10-11
DECA Vice President and 1st place at regionals
Drama Club
Class Government
Varsity Bowling
Interact Club

Volunteer Work:
-Various Local Cleanups (10hours per year)
Relay For Life (Co-Captain) (raising hundreds of $$)
Special Education Summer School (over 100 hours per summer)
-Various Business Functions (over 30 hours per year)
Thanksgiving Food Drive

UCBChemEGrad · 05-13-2008, 02:01 PM

For ChemE in the NY area look at RPI, Cornell, Rowan, Cooper Union, and Manhattan College.

For ChemE programs further from home, check out:
Rose Hulman, Delaware, U Minnesota - Twin Cities, Wisconsin, U Illinois - Urbana Champaign, Michigan, Northwestern, Rice, Bucknell, Georgia Tech, Penn State

You'd be a competitive applicant at all of these schools with the biggest reaches being Cornell, Northwestern and Rice.

I gave you a pretty varied list, but all have strong ChemE programs...perhaps you can provide some details on the types of school environment you prefer to help narrow it down.

waddlelikeaducky · 05-13-2008, 02:31 PM

Thank you for being so helpful

For reaches, I'm trying to get my ACT up for UPenn, Columbia, Cornell and NWestern.
I'm not sure where a good match would be though i do know i don't want to go further than Purdue [which knocks out all southern states]

I prefer a medium sized school [4k-15k] undergrads.
I would prefer a city environment but would settle for a rural school as well.

UCBChemEGrad · 05-13-2008, 02:34 PM

Rice is southern (Houston, TX)...just pointing that out...

waddlelikeaducky · 05-13-2008, 02:41 PM

I realized that and I edited it.
any idea on how these schools are in CE?
Bucknell, UConn, Purdue, Lehigh, HowardU, RutgersNJ, University of Rochester or Villanova? as well as Clarkson, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, or SUNY Buffalo.

UCBChemEGrad · 05-13-2008, 02:43 PM

CE meaning? ChemE? CivilE? or ComputerE?

waddlelikeaducky · 05-13-2008, 02:45 PM

chem engineering, sorry for being nonspecific.

UCBChemEGrad · 05-13-2008, 02:50 PM

I'll assume ChemE. USNews ranked undergraduate ChemE programs.
Here are the rankings:

Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Chemical
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)
1 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
2 University of California–Berkeley *
3 Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities *
4 Stanford University (CA)
5 Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison *
6 California Institute of Technology
7 Princeton University (NJ)
8 U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *
9 University of Texas–Austin *
10 University of Delaware *
11 Georgia Institute of Technology *
11 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *
13 Cornell University (NY)
14 Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
15 Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)*
16 Pennsylvania State U.–University Park *
17 Texas A&M Univ.–College Station *
17 Univ. of California–Santa Barbara *
19 North Carolina State U.–Raleigh *
20 Rice University (TX)
20 University of Pennsylvania
22 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY)
23 Iowa State University *
23 Northwestern University (IL)
23 University of Notre Dame (IN)
23 University of Virginia *
23 University of Washington *

Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Chemical
(At schools whose highest degree is a bachelor's or master's)
1 Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech. (IN)
2 Rowan University (NJ)*
3 Cooper Union (NY)
4 Bucknell University (PA)
5 University of Minnesota–Duluth *
6 Manhattan College (NY)

I'll give you some advice though as a former ChemE major, engineering is a very market-driven field in terms of starting salaries...you won't get a bigger starting salary because you graduated from a top-ranked program. Therefore, I wouldn't worry too much about the rankings...it's a good starting point, but choose the college for the atmosphere you like better and most importantly - cost.

yesnomaybeso7 · 05-13-2008, 03:13 PM

Bucknell or Lafayette if you like the Pennsylvania area.
Bucknell is fairly well known, while Lafayette isn't very well known. Both have good engineering schools though.

waddlelikeaducky · 05-13-2008, 03:16 PM

I was actually just looking at Bucknell, hows the campus life/atmosphere?

Altair · 05-13-2008, 03:20 PM

Why don't you try some college matching websites. Most of them are crap and will just tell you to go to the Univeristy of Phoenix, but there are a few that are good.

Princeton Review has a good one.
myUsearch.com is another really good one

Sungchul · 05-13-2008, 03:55 PM

UBC, I want to say that Cooper Union would also be a reach.

waddlelikeaducky · 05-19-2008, 01:09 PM

Hello
bump

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carolyn · 05-19-2008, 03:56 PM

I suggest you try this site: TryEngineering : Find a University

It is a non-profit website for prospective engineering majors. the link above will take you right to their searchable database of engineering programs that lets you search by accredited specialities, such as ChemE. The listings will also give you details about the stats of students admitted to the programs, so it will be fairly easy to get a good estimate of your chances. Best of luck!

waddlelikeaducky · 06-06-2008, 01:47 PM

bump, I'm looking for more opinions on "match" schools as I have this huge fear of not being accepted anywhere =/