I am currently a freshman at Umass Amherst majoring in Mech E wanting to transfer out and am in the following situation. I have the conditional transfer to GaTech and have planned out to take all required courses to guarantee admission there. My paranoid self would like to make sure I have other options, however, so how competitive is the following stats given schools like Cornell, Rice, UVA, Carnegie Mellon, Vanderbilt. Do I even bother applying to these schools given my admission to Gatech?
College:
Summer: English Composition
Fall:
Intro to Linear Algebra
Physics 151
Multivariate Calc
Engineering introduction course
Econ 103
Winter:
Differential Equations
Spring:
Chem 111
MATLAB Course
English
Statics
Physics 152
44 Credits expect all A’s.
HS:
ACT: 35
GPA: 3.86 UW, 4.2 W
Several Different APs