Chances for Cornell or Washington in St. Louis?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I’m an incoming senior and I’m thinking applying to the Engineering schools in Cornell University and Washington University in St. Louis. I currently have a 33 but I’m still hoping to bring it up and I’m going to take the SAT too. I took a couple SAT Math II practice subject test and only had and average of 2-3 mistakes and I’m hoping my real SAT subject test will be as good as that. I had a really low GPA my Junior year: 3.6. But I’m hoping to get all A’s fall semester and I’ll be taking rigorous courses: Calculus II, Polymer Chemistry, Mole and Cell biology, Programming in Java, and Physics. My ECs are relatively okay too: regularly volunteered at a local soup kitchen, president of a religious club, co-head of community service projects, hopefully Beta club officer, member of soccer, astronomy, and computer science clubs. In addition, I spent my summer at a local university doing programming research funded by the NSF. Also, I’ll be a part of a select group of students doing a year-long research in relation to high performance computing. The project will be affiliated to this programming community and we’ll have weekly seminars with a head scientist. </p>

<p>I know my GPA for junior year is really low but will my ECs and high level classes will compensate for it? :open_mouth: I’ve been really irresponsible the past two years but I know I’m capable of getting all As for the incoming semester. Any advice?</p>

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<p>Which other SAT Subject tests will you take?</p>

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<p>Class rank or percentile?</p>

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<p>You might want to take a look at Michigan. It is easier to get into than Wash U.</p>

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<p>There’s no ranking in my school because all of us were in the upper 5-10% of our previous schools.</p>

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<p>Are you talking about university of Michigan? If I’m applying out of state I I’m going to stick to a private university because I think they offer better aid. Do you have other suggestions for good engineering schools?</p>

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<p>Chemistry and maybe Physics</p>

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<p>Have you considered a small LAC like Harvey Mudd? They are great for engineering, are pretty selective, incoming freshmen achieve an average SAT score of around 2200 (the student body rivals those at MIT and Cal Tech in that regard, with extremely high Math aptitude), they tend to do pretty well after school (jobs or grad work…), and Mudd is part of the Claremont Colleges… so you’ll have access to classes at Pomona (top-five LAC), Claremont McKenna (top-10 LAC), Scripps (top-30 LAC) and Pitzer (top-50 LAC), if you wish to travel outside the science/math/engineering path at Mudd for some of your electives.</p>

<p>Just a thought. Best of luck to you.</p>

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<p>I didn’t think that an LAC for engineering and research but Harvey looks great. Thanks for the suggestion :D. Do you think I’d be a good fit?</p>

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<p>Bump O: Please? :D</p>

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<p>What’s your overall uw gpa?</p>