They wouldn’t have accepted me if I am not qualified enough for engineering<<<<<<<
Well, I would like think that would be the case, do have A levels? IBD? Because while we know that schools like full pay internationals for the money, students as articulate as you should be able to navigate the weed out landscape better than others.
The answer to your question is based on you really. As you only indicate a sub 1200 sat and a toefl score of 94, the answer is that maybe you should use more data points than CU123 suggests. The fact that 50% of native English speaking,strong students with an above 31 ACT score for e.g. CSE at Uminn might never make it out is a cautionary take away. Mines might not weed out until soph year as the first yr retention rates look better. That is an even worse scenario IMO. Mines won’t really have a plan b for non eng options, but the big state schools will have plenty of choices.