Can I get into the elite engineering schools in the US (MIT, Caltech, Stanford, UMich)?

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@mrksne: Always worth a try. When writing a personal statement or essay, make sure to think something different to set you apart, in good ways, from others. You still have time to improve your GPA in junior/1H senior year. Here is my personal, subjective assessment at this point:

Stanford: 50%;
UC Berkeley M.E.T program: 50%; (it’s believed the acceptance rate was <3% in 2019);
MIT: 60%;
UC Berkeley EECS program: 60%;
UC Berkeley other engineering program: 70%;
CalTech: 75%;
CMU: 80%;
UMichigan: 80%;
Georgia Tech: 85%.

CalPoly-SLO: 90% - I would regard it as a “safety” school as in your case. Please note that even this school is very competitive:
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/latest-news/article230678879.html

Here is a reference link to a guy just got admitted to Stanford UG this year, you may wan to take a close look:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/2100728-chance-me-for-top-cs-schools-p1.html

Good luck!

No disrespect, but complete nonsense.

CP SLO is a safety school? CP SLO uses a formula (MCA), which awards points for GPA, course rigor and SAT/ACT score and also incorporates points for volunteering and paid work hours, with bonus points for those EC’s that are specifically tied to your major. And the OP didn’t even list those. Subjects tests aren’t even considered at CP SLO.

I’d suggest you take a look at the SLO and the UMich deferred and waitlist threads, since I’m very familiar with those two, and see what GPA’s and test scores are being rejected by these schools. The thread(s) are littered with students with 3.9+/1,500+ being deferred in EA and then rejected in RD (UMich).

Stanford 50/50? Cal Tech 75%? GT 85% :lol: