Need more target schools for engineering…ideas?

2Devils
Sun, 04 Sep 2022 14:23:52 +0000

Congrats to your kid on a great record. What is your kid’s rank or approximate rank? Have they taken all of the most rigorous courses available? If your kid were top-5% kid with highest rigor at our school, your breakdown of reach/target etc is very close to assessments here, but that is not the case at many other schools, as other posters have pointed out.

Does the school counselor offer any insight into reach/match/safety? In watching the process unfold in our area at public magnets vs top publics vs top privates, there are differences among schools. For example, at one school it is very rare to get into UCD, UCSB or UCIrvine and one has to be near the top of the class, and none in recent memory have gotten in to UCB. At another school UCD UCI let in kids in the top 25% frequently, but getting into UCB and UCLA is about 20% in the last couple of rounds, and almost all who try are top 10%.

UMichigan, even Engineering, is a definite target for top-ranked students with your kid’s stats at the school I know best(assuming highest rigor) , a reach for the the top kids at the school across town.

It just depends. I agree with adding Virginia Tech. What about WestVirginia U? IT is a top 100 program in ChemE and gets a lot of kids from our state(VA) from the Stem -magnet-publics.
EDIT: I suppose WVU is in a red state, but the kids /families I know there are not conservative at all and their (engineering) kids love it.