Additional colleges for aerospace major

VirginiaBelle
Tue, 18 Oct 2022 01:11:08 +0000

Schools will see roughly where he is in the class due to the school profile which will be submitted with his transcript and/or recommendations. Some schools publish these and others don’t. You can always ask your school counselor for a copy if you are curious. We had to provide it for an alumni interview at UVA and it was very informative! My son goes to a competitive private prep school and they don’t rank either. Colleges will know though.

He is my third college applicant and second engineer. I have been given some advice along the way and learned some things. My best advice to you is to have your son apply to some schools with rolling admission to get an acceptance under his belt, and apply to several safeties (where he is above the 75th percentile in number of APs, GPA and test scores) to have some definite acceptances. His list is really tough and theoretically he could end up with a CU Boulder admit only. That is just disheartening to keep getting rejected, even if the acceptances are not places at the top of your list.

Things get harder every year. If you had told me 5 years ago I would be worried about my kid in the top 10 students in his class with a 34 ACT and at one of the top schools in the state getting into our state engineering school with a 35 percent acceptance rate (Georgia Tech) I would have thought you were crazy! Definitely no guarantees though and we are crossing fingers and toes!

You have the reaches and high reaches covered. How many APs has he taken thus far? How many will he complete? My son will have taken 11 when he graduates which is close to the max for his school. I have a child at Georgia Tech and there are lots of people that come in with 60 hours of credit/associate degrees. AOs do consider what is available to them, but what is rigorous at one school may pale in comparison to others.

No real advice on schools unless he is considering the south (although he could apply to Auburn, Alabama and Clemson in about 15 minutes because essays are not required - and he would go to Alabama for free tuition and Auburn for half tuition), but sure you will get lots of advice here.