Additional colleges for aerospace major

VirginiaBelle
Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:15:13 +0000

Commenting because I have a son with similar stats. Test scores slightly higher. He also plays the sax/clarinet and has quite a bit of leadership/sports/community service plus a regional award. Michigan, Illinois, Texas are all reach/high reach for him and for your son as well - assuming no hooks (first generation student, underrepresented minority, etc.) My guess is UC schools are mostly reaches as well. Purdue is a target probably for aero and reach for CS. GT would be a high reach OOS (we are in state) with an OOS admit rate of 11 percent. Lower for males in engineering and even lower for males in CS. UW is impossible OOS for CS - acceptance rate around 3 percent. Agree you need more safeties and some targets. Is he a junior? Do you know where he falls in his class?

What part of the country does he want to be in? Most familiar with southern schools as my son wants to stay in the south, although applying to Purdue and Illinois. Cast a wide net and be sure you have schools that are safeties (for CS I am not super sure there are many of those) where he wants to go. Also, EA seems to have the best chances. AOs say it doesn’t matter but in this day of increasing applications I think it does unless AOs have yield exactly right. If more commit than they think for EA they accept fewer RD. Just the facts. His application is strong so no detriment to applying early.