<p>erm… why not take the ACTs? They are way easier than the SATs.</p>
<p>Lol the Ivies are so heavily overrated it’s not even funny. First of all, the Ivies aren’t all too great at engineering (Stanford, MIT, CMU, Gtech, UC Berkeley, UIUC, UMich, UT, and Caltech aren’t Ivies). Cornell is okay for engineering (10thish). Even their med-schools aren’t top rated (save UPenn, Harvard, and Yale). This is all from USNEWS.</p>
<p>As long as you stick out of the crowd, have an excellent GPA, etc. it really shouldn’t matter where you go. Some people try to make it seem worthwhile by saying that the Ivies have more job/internship opportunities. That’s plain bs. All places have opportunities. Of course, there are some places that only accept students who are Ivy graduates. You’ll learn to see, that in the long run, prestige of your university will never make much of a difference in life.</p>
<p>And if you continue to grad school, who the hell cares where you went to undergrad? If you get your master’s from Harvard and Bachelor’s from a CC, who cares about the BSc? Nobody! Not like going to Harvard will even make much of a difference in the long run (i.e. salaries), but you might wow some people by saying you’re from Harvard. But being from Harvard doesn’t make you more qualified. They aren’t teaching different material. And how are you going to compete with them? It’s way too hard to stand out from the crowd.</p>