CHANCE me (Ivies, MIT, Caltech, Stanford, etc.)

MWolf
Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:12:46 +0000

I think that you already know the answer - you are competitive for them all, but they are still reaches for anybody. Choose the three or four which you think are the best fits for you, (though UCLA/Berkeley/UCSD can be considered as one), and find yourself some good matches and a safety which your family can afford and which you would be happy to attend.

However, before that - what is your state of residence, and what can your parents afford?

BTW, you really should choose between Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Cornell, CMU, and the UCs for reaches. Harvard, Columbia, and UPenn are not worth the difficulty of admissions for the level of engineering they provide, compared to UIUC, UT Austin, GTech, Harvey Mudd, Michigan, Purdue, TAMU, Wisconsin, or VTech. Even Penn State, UMD, or OSU would be better choices for engineering than those three, IMO.