SAT: 1380 (R/W: 700, M: 680) I think this is THE HIGHEST score at my HS at this moment, if that says anything about my school.
SATII: Biology 600, Math II 620.
GPA: 99.6/100
Rank: 4/420 (Ha, I know.)
Identity: Asian, M, First generation, low income, California born, Georgia raised
HS: Rural Public
Extracurriculars: VP of MAO, Key club, TSA, 100hrs of community service. Working with my dad at his business. I also provide my own fishing guide services fo free to family members and local community members for most of the year. It is like a business because sometimes I get tips.
Essays: I loved writing them
Intended major: Environmental Engineering
Yeah I know; these are horrible. I want to blame it on the lack of opportunities my school offers, but ultimately the blame is on my lack of proactiveness. In my interviews, I want to talk about my research project on a newly distinguished fish species. It is pretty neat because I initiated the idea with a local college and the GA DNR. Any thoughts, questions, poetry? I also applied to GaTech and UGA as my safeties and also CalTech, TAMU, 4, UT, Rice, Northwestern, Duke, and similar schools. Heck, I will do Ivies just to say that I did it. Any thoughts on those?
i’m sorry but i would not consider gtech a safety for anyone other than ga vals & sals that get auto admit! i do think u have a pretty good shot at uga & even gtech though! tamu is becoming competitive for oos but u have solid stats for that as well (not a guarantee of course) as for ut, duke, northwestern, & rice they are a crapshoot with your sat score but couldn’t hurt to try! caltech is a loooong stretch/:
GT accepts around 36% of instate applicants, however your SAT is low. Since you are instate and have a good gpa, you might be on the cusp of acceptance.
You probably have a good shot at TAMU. They have a near 70% accepance rate overall. For context, here in Texas, TAMU is our Auburn. There is no TAMU type equivalent school in Ga. It would be like tripling the size of GA Southern and giving it an engineering department.
As for the private schools (caltech, rice, duke, ivies…4?) you have a near zero chance.
If you were instate for Texas, you would be an auto admit, but as OOS… no chance.
The Texas publics UT (assuming Austin) and TAMU are high reaches because they are unlikely to be affordable without top end merit scholarships.
Although GT and UGA are the only Georgia publics with environmental engineering, that is often a subarea of civil engineering. You may want to see if civil engineering at GSU or KSU offers what you want, so that you may have a more affordable and likely in state backup.
I would suggest taking the ACT and SAT again. Submit the scores if they improve. If you get deferred to RD, you can also submit the new scores.
Understand, you would be a successful student at all the schools you’ve mentioned (except caltech). The trick is being accepted, so you need high metrics and well written essays.
You see, I do not fully understand how they can accept the scores after the RD deadline in January. Can you explain it? Also, what range do you reccomend? I can probably get into the middle 1400s if I tried. My scores jumped 90 points from the first time I took the SAT to the second, which is currently the current score. I have also heard that taking it after the 3rd time is no optimal.
Yes they do; I just signed up for the Dec. 1 SAT testing. It is kinda hard for me to explain, but I just did not know how the deferment policy worked. Great info nonetheless. Thanks!