<p>Here is the academic profile for the current freshman class at Minnesota:</p>
<p>[Academic</a> Profile](<a href=“http://admissions.tc.umn.edu/academics/profile.html]Academic”>Academic Profile of Fall 2022 Admitted Freshman Applicants by College | Office of Admissions)</p>
<p>For CSE the average ACT score is 31 and the average class rank is top 6.4%. Getting into CSE is getting more and more competitive every year. I remember when we were there over the summer for orientation, during one of the presentations they said that the average ACT score for those admitted to CSE is the highest ever.</p>
<p>Have you applied yet? I would apply ASAP. The earlier you apply, the better chance you have of being admitted. When we took our daughter there for her first campus tour in the Spring of 2012 they even told us that the earlier you apply, the better chance you have of being admitted because as the process goes on, there are less and less slots available to admit students. Although there are not essays or letters of recommendation required for the application, they do have a place where you can add supplemental information that does not fit elsewhere on the application. In one of the supplemental boxes, my daughter added how she spent multiple hours each week babysitting her 7 year old brother, and she wrote about several engineering camps that she had attended over the summer while she was in high school.</p>
<p>Last year my daughter applied on October 7th, was accepted on November 19th and received the Gold National Scholarship (which gives OOS students instate tuition) on December 20th. Here are her stats for comparison:</p>
<p>ACT: 31
Unweighted GPA: 3.9
Weighted GPA: 4.3
Class Rank 17/520 (top 3.3%)
5 AP Classes
12 Honors Classes
Lots of EC’s including 200+ hours of community service and leadership positions within her clubs and organizations</p>
<p>She is currently in CSE and really enjoying it so far, but it is HARD. She is doing very well, but there are a lot of kids struggling in their classes. Most engineering majors are taking chemistry, physics, calculus, a CSE class that everyone in CSE is required to take, an engineering class related to the type of engineering you want to study, and some sort of liberal arts class. The requirements to get in are high, but they have to be so that the students don’t struggle once they get in. Good luck to you!</p>