Chances Of Admission

aunt_bea
Sat, 02 Jan 2016 09:59:56 +0000

Your application goes through the admissions office, for each of the universities you have selected, and engineering typically doesn’t hand-select its UG candidates.

As @Gumbymom has stated, your SAT is not high enough for most of your listed UC’s.
Engineering is very competitive and your score will not look good.

Specifically, I hope they understand that the sat tests only geometry and some algebra 2, and the only reason it’s challenging is because it is timed and presented in obscure ways.

FWIW, thousands of students, who have taken AP Calc and other courses in math, perform well on the math portion of the SATs. Making excuses for your score isn’t helpful.

You do understand that in a university education, it’s not about just taking math courses for engineering, right? You will not earn a diploma in engineering, if you can’t complete other courses in other academic areas. The universities expect you to leave with a decent general education plus your major. In a career in engineering, you not only have to be well prepared in math, but you also have to be able to communicate (Speech and Debate), write summaries (English), deal with multiple people (Psych) of different cultures (Social Sciences), meet deadlines (business management), and perform math calculations in “obscure ways”.