Preliminary Chance me! [currently in 10th grade, Kentucky resident, 4.0 GPA, 1510 SAT, aerospace or environmental engineering]

I’m still in 10th grade, but would love feedback!

Demographics

  • US domestic (US citizen or permanent resident) or international student
  • State/Location of residency: U.S. Citizen
  • Type of high school (or current college for transfers): Magnet - Top 100 Nationally
  • Other special factors: N/A

Cost Constraints / Budget
None - comfortable

Intended Major(s)

Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: 4.0
  • Weighted HS GPA: 4.3/5.0 (Dual Credit & AP is 5, everything else is 4)
  • Class Rank: Not Calculated at my school
  • ACT/SAT Scores: 1510 (790 reading + 720 math) (planning to retake)

List your HS coursework

  • English: Advanced English, AP Seminar
  • Math: Calculus 1
  • Science: Physics 1, Biology 1, Chemistry 1
  • History and social studies: APHG, AP World
  • Language other than English: Spanish 3
  • Visual or performing arts: N/A
  • Other academic courses: Engineering 1, Engineering 2

Awards

Extracurriculars
Volunteer since 6th grade w/ a local climate nonprofit

founded a nonprofit bringing hands-on engineering education to students

run a math tutoring business

2 time NASA Techrise winner

AJAS delegate

Scioly State 1st Place

State Science Fair 3rd Place

Working on personal projects (AI trash cans, vertically landing model rockets)

Essays/LORs/Other
N/A

You are in 10th grade and doing great. Keep it up.

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It sounds like you are a good test taker. Study or prep for the PSAT in October. A good score on the PSAT might open up scholarships and opportunities for you.

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Looks like I forgot to include this in the original post, but I took it this past October (planning to take again in junior year for the scholarship), and I got a 1460.

What state are you in? Assuming a roughly even split, that would qualify you for NMSF in some states but not others. That said, given your overall SAT score I would assume you would be able to reach NMSF levels for all states with some prep.

So ultimately I think you will need to consider carefully whether you want a big, traditional engineering powerhouse sort of program, the type that will have lots of specialty engineering majors and lots of people in those majors, or perhaps a high-quality but smaller engineering program with fewer specialty majors, but embedded within a generally very good college.

You have plenty of time to decide, but 10th grade is potentially a good time to start exploring such options, possibly with some visits if you can swing that.

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I’m in Kentucky

You’re in great shape. Ultimately budget will be the question.

You say your family is comfortable but if they can spend $20k or $90k and secure a likely similar outcome, will that matter to them ?

Many can spend but doesn’t mean they want to - so always start with budget.

But you’ll have no shortage of opportunities if you keep up the great work.

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