do I have a chance of getting in?

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Thu, 23 Jul 2015 05:35:13 +0000

mechanical engineering is pretty difficult to get into at all of these colleges…

you’d have a low chance at UCB, a slightly better chance at UCLA, and your best chance would be at UMich (I don’t really know much about UMich admissions since it wasn’t a school that me or any of my friends applied to, but I can speak pretty confidently about UCB and UCLA MechE)

Mechanical Engineering at UCLA had an 11.1% acceptance rate for the 2014-2015 school academic year, making it the third hardest major to get into for UCLA engineering (the two most difficult are CS and undeclared). While I don’t remember the exact statistics anymore, during engineering open house they told us that the average SAT score for students admitted for engineering was somewhere close to 2200, and the average unweighted GPA was around a 4.0 (it might have been a 3.98 or something, I forget). Since you’re an international student from India (I was actually born in the city you live in haha) , you’re probably going to need to have stats that are above the averages to get admitted. With that being said, you should certainly aim to get a 35 or 36 on the ACT and have unique admission essays