Chances of getting into BU ENG with ED?
Demographics: Male, Maine, Private School and parents without degrees.
1st Gen
Intended Major: Aerospace Engineering/Mechanical Engineering
SAT: Opt out
Class rank: 39/779
178 hours of community service total
GPA: UW: 3.79 and W: 3.89
Coursework: AP and Honors + electives
APs: AP Compsci, AP physics 1, Ap stats, Ap calc ab, ap econ, ap lang, ap physics: Mechanics, honors Bio, honors geometry, honors chemistry and honors Algebra 2.
Electives (PLTW): IED, POE, DE and EDD)
Normal Electives(required): ICS, PE, Ceramics, EconA and HealthA + Spanish 1,2 and 3.
Extracurriculars
-Mentor Program: Member + Officer (Community Service) (3 years)
-Math Team: Varsity + Captain (3years)
-Robotics: Co-Cap, Head Programmer (3 years)
-Student Senate: Math Team Representative (3years)
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Mentor at BAE System FOCUS Program (3 years)
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Science Honor society: Member (2years)
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Social Studies Honor Society: Officer at Large for Treasurer
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English Honor Society: Officer
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History Guild: Member (Year 1)
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AIAA: Member and initiative for creating educational YouTube videos (Year 2)
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Math Honor Society (Year 1)
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NTHS (Year 2)
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Personal Project: Building a Rocket flight computer that anyone can buy parts to build.
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Worked on creating 3D printable model rockets.
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Qualified as a Physics and Chemistry tutor with 50 hours.
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1st Place for BAE FOCUS (Competition+ Contract win)
- Got like a 75 in Honors Algebra 2 and a 79 in PreCalc (hoping this won’t reduce my chances completely)
Essay: Probably about how working at my family business sparked my interest with rocketry while I was working towards restocking soda cans and bottles(don’t have any exact picture)
I was thinking of Tufts to also apply to for engineering.
Can your parents afford to pay slightly more than $400,000 for your bachelor’s degree without taking on debt? Alternately have you or your parents run the NPC and are all of you okay with the result?
Are you also applying to at least one and preferably two safeties? The University of Maine is for example one very good and ABET accredited university that might (or might not) be a safety for you (but you should also get your guidance counselor’s opinion regarding whether it is a safety).
This worries me, particularly for an intended engineering major. Math is important for an engineering major. How did you do in your other math classes? How did you do in physics?
What happened in algebra and precalculus? Did you just find these difficult or is there some other explanation?
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So I have 92 in AP physics 1 and a 93 in AP calc with 91 in AP stats. Also apparently BU gives really good out of state tuition.
You have to run BU’s net price calculator with your parents to get a cost estimate…don’t apply ED unless it looks affordable per the NPC. BU does meet 100% of demonstrated need, but its how they calculate it. They are not the most generous school in terms of FA (among those that do meet full need.) Note NPCs may not be accurate if your parents are divorced, own a business, or own real estate beyond a primary home…are any of those the case for you?
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Boston University is a private school and does not have a different rate for OOS tuition. The tuition alone is $69,000/year. They do offer financial aid to those who qualify but are need aware, meaning that how much financial aid you require can figure in to your admission decision. Same with Tufts. Both would be considered high reaches for you.
Spend some time with your family on budget. And then find a few safety schools within that budget that you would love to attend. After you’ve figured that out, pick out a small number of reach schools to apply to.
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This is encouraging. BU is still a reach, and Tufts is a slightly higher reach. You definitely need to be applying to universities for which admissions is way more likely.
BU is a private school and the tuition will be the same whether you are in-state or out of state. However, it is not cheap. You should definitely run the NPC before you apply ED. Most likely you will need to get a parent to run the NPC. At least when I did the same thing quite a few years ago, the result was not encouraging for us. Costs have gone up since then. However I have no idea whether the cost will be affordable for you.
Perhaps the good news here is that your relatively strong grades in AP Physics and AP Calc suggest that you can handle the course work for an engineering major, and you have a very good in-state public school that is ABET accredited for ME.
Yeah I’m gonna have to run the calculator to see the results of the aid.
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You should run the NPC for each school on your list!
nah I got into BU and I got aid but not nearly enough unfortunately. ended up committing to UMass
@n8080808 UMass has a wonderful engineering program. Do well, and move forward!
Not sure why you replied on this thread…
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