huge difference in gpa vs sat? (for engineering)

trinniele
Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:22:53 +0000

i’m asian and female.
my gpa and sat are very different: 3.42 UW(4.22 weighted, 3.75 UCweighted) vs 2250 (800 in math)
taking math II physics and biology this fall.

i’m going for aerospace engineering and premed (seriously interested in both but i’ll settle for chemical engineering if i have to)

want to be some sort of weapon designer (biological weapons will be fantastic).

my ec’s are not worth mentioning.

i spoke to my counselor regarding this difference a week ago, and according to her, colleges have usually view this in two ways, either i’m very lazy, or the school is freaking competitive. but in this case she thinks they will go for the competitive one because i have a lot of ap classes, but mainly because i’m also taking college classes (full time high school part time college) and my grades at the way less competitive college are good (18 credits as of now, 6 classes, gpa = 4.0)

i want to ask if this difference will harm me too much at these schools.

Reach:
UCLA
UCB
UCSD
John Hopkins
UMich
Carnegie Mellon

Matches:
GA Tech
Virginia Tech
UIUC
U of W Madison

Safeties (are these safeties?)
Purdue
Rose-Hulman

and also how will penn state park be for me? reach, match, or safety?

thanks soooo much.