Help finding the right engineering school

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<p>GPA: 3.73 Not sure if weighted, never been in a non-honors or AP class except language for first 3 years</p>

<p>Class Rank: 9/165 (safely in top 10%)</p>

<p>SAT: 650 Math 620 CR 630 Writing</p>

<p>AP: History
Calc
English
Chem
Spanish
Extra activities:
Moc Trial soph-senior
Various community service activities
volunteering at a few school help events
Sailing
CIT-ing at sailing camp
JV soccer fresh year
Oh and I’ve been nominated for 2 leadership conferences, you know those kinds of things</p>

<p>that’s my stuff, where do you see me fitting in?</p>

<p>looking more specifically for mechanical engineering</p>

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<p>Case Western?</p>

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<p>What state do you live in?</p>

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<p>This honestly means nothing.</p>

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<p>Where in the country are you looking? Do you expect that you’ll need merit scholarship money? What size school interests you? Are you thinking you’d prefer to do engineering within a university, or at a tech school?</p>

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<p>live in New England, not necessarily looking for merit money. Trying to keep doors open as to what kind of school.</p>

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<p>I think the best thing for you is to try to get a feel for the various types of schools that offer engineering, otherwise you could just look at a list of engineering schools and feel overwhelmed. All schools should be accredited by ABET. You can find their lists on line. Also, US News ranks engineering programs. </p>

<p>If you want to be at a tech school a few obvious choices might be:
Worcester Polytech
Rensselaer Polytech
Rochester Institute of Tech</p>

<p>If you want to be in a larger university setting, you might look at:
U Delaware
U Pittsburgh
Purdue
Northeastern</p>

<p>If you want to be at a small liberal arts type school doing engineering you might look at:
Bucknell
Villanova
Lafayette</p>

<p>Hopefully you can get out this summer and see some campuses. My youngest son just got done picking out an engineering school, so we’ve been to quite a few! (He’s going to Worcester this fall.)</p>

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<p>Being nominated for 2 leadership conferences might mean something to the admissions officers even if it doesn’t mean something to milki.</p>

<p>I would add to weenie’s good list:
Syracuse
Boston U
U Mass Amherst if you are in-state
Rutgers
U Maryland College Park
Ohio State</p>

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<p>thanks for the lists, really appreciate it :)</p>

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<p>You can shoot for better schools if you can bring your SAT score up (you really need to improve on your math score for engineering). And I presume you plan to take SAT Subject Tests in the fall?</p>

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<p>You might be wise to add Clarkson University to your list, in the tech school category. I believe your SATs as-is would probably be sufficient, and along with RIT (listed above) it is a very popular choice with prospective engineering students in NY State.</p>

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<p>If you want to go locally, check Vermont. Case Western is another good choice (it’s in Cleveland), so is Pitt. If you can raise your SAT scores, schools such as Carnegie-Mellon may be in view.</p>

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<p>Aren’t NYLC and other “Leadership Conferences” regarded to be nothing here?</p>

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<p>I definitely support this list:</p>

<p>Worcester Polytech
Rensselaer Polytech
Rochester Institute of Tech
U Delaware
U Pittsburgh
Purdue
Northeastern
Bucknell
Villanova
Lafayette</p>

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<p>University of Massachusetts (Lowell Campus), Stevens Institute of Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Florida Institute of Technology, Rochester Insititute of Technology, and Case Western. For reach schools you might try Rennselear Polytech, and Georgia Tech.</p>

<p>The above are engineering schools. Many great state universities offer very good programs as well.</p>

<p>Read up on these and do you best.</p>