School Suggestions?

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I’m a junior from Miami, and I’m starting to think I would like to be an engineer (aerospace). I’ve been overwhelmed by my Gpa in which has been hurt because of a career ending soccer injury on my shoulder that required surgery and metal anchors to be put in. This happened during my junior year, I had surgery and was not able to write for 1 month and missed out on tons of schools days because if pains, hospital visits etc. Then it was challenging going back to school to have to catch up on materials and suffering depression from being away from soccer forever and having strong medications for pain that made it difficult to concentrate. I took honors and APs still and didn’t give up on them and will continue to take them.

Gpa: 3.0uw 3.7w

Ap/honors: Ap world history, English 1 honors, English 2 honors, chemistry honors, geometry honors, Ap European history, psychology honors, Ap english, Ap spanish, algebra 1&2 honors, physics honors, Ap us history (AP us gov. AP macroeconomics, Ap English literature, AP physics, AP human geography, AP psychology, honors pre calculus are for my senior year)

EC’s: soccer player since I was 5 years old until happened, freshman starter, sophomore varsity captain, football ( kicker) I’m not having any contact through making field goals so it’s what I’m doing now. National Science Honor society in senior year

Background: Mexican-Honduran family that were immigrants, First generation to even attend highschool, <32,000$ income, played soccer in high school team and travel team as well until injury

Act/sat: have not taken, waiting for June tests

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I’m so sorry that happened to you! I’m pretty sure there’s a section on the Common App where you can write about special circumstances that affected your grades. While that probably won’t enable you to get into HYPS, a lot of schools will understand.

It’s very hard to predict anything without test scores, but here’s a list of schools you could look into that are known for their aerospace engineering programs:
Georgia Tech, Purdue, UIUC, U Maryland, UT Austin, Texas A&M, Virginia Tech, U Michigan, UC Boulder

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^ Frankly all of those out of state public Us are very bad recommendations for a low income student. The OP would be full pay at each one in the range of $40-60K/year - more than the family’s annual income.

OP, look instate and use your Bright Futures money. Check ABET accredited programs (google it) and look at Mech E as well as Aero.

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Agree with Erin’s Dad.

OP, look into University of Miami, Embry-Riddle, Florida Institute of Technology, and University of Florida,