How much did I mess up my chances of getting into college? [college calculus 1 B grade, IB math AA HL A grade; MD resident, 3.967 GPA, top 10% rank, 1530 SAT, <$50k, civil engineering]

[ucbalumnus]

@skylarblue

My parents want me to go to a prestigious school, which is the reason for a lot of these schools.

Civil engineering does not seem to be a particularly college-prestige-focused profession, so college prestige is not as important career-wise as it would be in something like investment banking or management consulting.

@skylarblue

I am also tentative about going south or to a predominantly white school, because I’m a minority (but I do live in a predominantly white area so I would survive).

You may also want to investigate whether the schools of interest, their local areas, or their states have populations that tend to consider bigotry to be socially acceptable or desirable.