<p>Well I am looking to go into electrical engineering and I don’t really know that many schools that I am a match for… I am looking heavily at Rice, Carnegie Mellon, UT, and really reaching for Cornell, but I’d like some suggestions on other schools I might get into. I am a Texas public school student, 30th in a class of 607, 4.0 unweighted gpa, 2180 sat1, (760 math,670reading, 750 writing), I am going to have 13 aps, yet only 4 will be on my application when i apply (whist, ushist, enlang, psych) w/ 4s and 5s, My senior schedule is as follows: APstats, APcalBC, APelit, APbio, APchem, APphysicsc, APcompsci, I took goverment and macroeconomics at the local community college over the summer to make room for math and sciences, I work 15-24 hours a week year round (35 in the summer) , I am in the NHS, YoungRepublicans, I competed at the district level in current issues, I volunteered 30 hours or so in the summer, my sat 2 math2 is 780 and my sat2 physics is 750. So where should I look into? and are Rice and Cornell within my grasp?</p>
<p>You should definitely try applying to some more prestigious colleges. Your composite is 1430, which is a very nice score. Plus, your SAT II is also above average. </p>
<p>You definitely have a shot at Rice and Cornell! :)</p>
<p>UC Berkeley, CMU and Cornell should be within reach!</p>
<p>Berkeley is very expensive for an OOS student and it won’t help you with costs.</p>
<p>Cornell is more of a reach than a match, but still possible. </p>
<p>It looks like you’ve got a good list of match/reach schools. Which schools are your safeties?<br>
Have you talked to your parents about how much they will spend on college? If not, you should.</p>
<p>You’ve got great stats and a rigorous course schedule, so you a realistic candidate at even the top schools. But top schools have low acceptance rates, so make sure you apply to schools with a range of selectivity levels, and don’t forget to have one or more safeties.</p>
<p>You’ve got two good instate public options: UT-Austin and Texas A&M. </p>
<p>What type of school are you interested in? Large or small? Public or private? Urban, suburban, or rural? What region of the country? Is financial aid a consideration?</p>
<p>Consider WUSTL, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, U. Michigan, Purdue (safety), Lehigh, Bucknell.</p>
<p>Check out University of Rochester and Case Western.</p>
<p>Your stats make you a viable candidate at any of these schools, but be aware that plenty of people with the right stats get rejected anyhow. My son, with slightly higher test scores, slightly lower class rank, similarly rigorous schedule, was not admitted at Rice, Cornell, or CMU.</p>
<p>You should definitely add an admissions safety and a financial safety, as anything can happen when it comes to admissions at top schools.</p>
<p>With good essays and recommendations, though, you stand a good chance at all of the schools you listed, but - again - anything’s possible. Often, people who seem to have done everything they needed and seem to stand an almost certain chance of getting in are turned down anyway. You just can’t predict the top schools because their admit rates are so low.</p>
<p>Purdue - match; Michigan State, Texas A&M, Arizona State - safeties.</p>
<p>when you say 13 aps, do you mean 13 tests or 13 ap classes?</p>
<p>Well my parents aren’t paying for my school, but I figure that since I’ll be in debt regardless I might as well pick the best school I can… My safeties are UT-Austin and Texas A&M because they literally have to accept me because of the top 10% law… But I will have taken 13 ap tests (14 if I opt for Physics B) by the time I graduate. I would prefer going to a smaller school (about the size of Rice or so). I would really like to go to a school in an urban/ suburban area… very high on the Northeast/ west coast… Would Lehigh/ Purdue/ Northwestern be worth going to considering I get in-state tuition at UT-Austin? My family income w/ FAFSA is about 55,000, whereas my family income w/ profile is about 155,000. Also does anyone know anything about liberal arts engineering?</p>
<p>If you will be taking on debt to finance your education, it’s hard to recommend anything other than your instate flagship, especially considering that UT-Austin is a strong one.</p>
<p>Purdue would be a safety for you, but you won’t need one if you are guaranteed admission at UT-Austin and A&M.</p>
<p>If you maintain your grades, write good essays that are thoughtfully crafted, I think you would have a GREAT chance at CORNELL ED. Think about it seriously…visit, too. If it’s something you’re interested in, go for it.</p>
<p>It is very hard to pass up UT-Austin if you are at all trying to keep your debt down.</p>
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This has to be one of the most flippant and silly comments I’ve read. UT in-state would be $25K/year or $100K total (that would be near $1K/month for 10 years). Going to UCB would double that amount owed and even moving the payment period to 30 years would make the monthly payment higher.
I assume instead of income you mean EFC and IM EFC? That makes your parents very well off. Have you actually spoken with them about the cost of college or are you making an assumption?</p>
<p>Well the income thing is because my parents are divorced and my mom makes about 55 and my dad about 100 and I live with my mom. I probably wouldn’t choose 200k debt at ucb over 100k at ut-austin… but I might take 190/200k debt at cornell or rice over 100k at ut austin simply because ut is SO big and I might like to get out of texas while i can (w/ cornell/ cmu)</p>
<p>You can try Cooper Union.
They are better than Cornell,tuition free and might like a kid like you.</p>
<p>Wow, I just looked into Cooper Union a little bit and it looks PERFECT.
Do you think that I’d be competitive for an engineering major or math there?</p>
<p>Their admission decisions are strange.On top of SAT and GPA they look for something else.
My S is there for architecture and loves it.
Their EE is the best in the country.
I dont think they have a math major.</p>