Chance Me Biomedical Engineering [NJ resident, 3.82 GPA, 1430 SAT, <$60k]

Chance Me / Match Me
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Demographics**

  • US Citizen

  • State/Location of residency: NJ

  • Type of high school: Medium to Large Suburban Public

  • Other special factors: None

Cost Constraints / Budget

60k/year

Intended Major(s)

Biomedical Engineering

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: 3.82

  • Weighted HS GPA: 5.68/6 (AP/Honors-6; Accelerated-5; College Prep-4)

  • Class Rank: HS does not rank

  • ACT/SAT Scores: 1430

List your HS coursework

  • English: Honors (2 years)/AP Lang & Lit

  • Math: Honors: Algebra 2, Geometry, PreCalculus; Accelerated: Calculus; AP: Stats

  • Science: Honors: Biology, Chemistry; AP: Physics 1, Biology

  • History and social studies: Honors: US 1; AP: US, World, Psych, US Gov

  • Language other than English: 4 years (AP)

  • Visual or performing arts: 1 year

  • Other academic courses: PLTW (4 years-including AP Computer Science Principles)

13 classes are dual enrollment

Awards

-National Honor Society

-World Languages Honors Society

-National Latin Exam Gold Award (9, 10) Silver Award (11)

-AP Scholar with Distinction

-Most Outstanding Student AP Computer Science Principles

-HS Nominee for New Jersey Governor’s School in Engineering & Technology

-Girl Scout Silver Award

Extracurriculars

Three sport athlete-moderate ability (2 varsity letters)

250+ volunteer hours

Employed full time as camp counselor over last 2 summers

Youth sports referee in fall & spring

Women in STEM

Leadership in 3 clubs

Essays/LORs/Other

Hard to say—I have been told essays are good and expect good LORs

Schools

These are just guesses

  • Likely:

Tennessee

  • Toss-up:

Bucknell

Lehigh

Virginia Tech

  • Lower Probability:

Boston University

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Have you run the NPCs for Bucknell, Lehigh, and BU? All are well over budget.

Tennessee and perhaps Bucknell can happen.

Less sure about the others.

Good luck.

PS - lots of ABET accredited biomedical schools cost under your budget.

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Yes. The numbers work. Thanks.

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So Pitt is a little over budget OOS, but they do have some merit. Might be worth an application since it is such a strong department. Minnesota I would think is also worth checking out for similar reasons, and they will estimate merit on their NPC.

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