<p>I am in the class of 2012. My Gpa is about a 4.01 Weighted and somewhere around a 3.75ish unweighted. I am in the top 10% of my class. I have alot of out of school activitites, includeing community service, and I played football and rugby. I am interested in aeronautical and aerospace engineering. I would prefer to live somewhere warm and along a cost. With this being said, what are some good colledges i can get into, i know ivy leagues are a bit out of reach but ill still apply. I also dont want to go to an avrage school since I have worked way to hard to be in the same school as a 3.5ish type kid.</p>
<p>In the first place, you really need to make sure someone proofreads your applications for you! :)</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone can give you any particularly useful advice unless they know what state you live in–assuming that you are not an international–and what your standardized test scores are.</p>
<p>Oh, and to what extent FA is crucial.</p>
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A 3.75 is not that far from 3.5ish. Most state Us have good engineering programs. What can your family afford?</p>
<p>*I also dont want to go to an avrage school since I have worked way to hard to be in the same school as a 3.5ish type kid. *</p>
<p>Oh please…I’m sure that many, many, many kids with a 3.5 GPA can spell words like college, average, activities, a lot, and including. And, they would know that this is not a clear sentence: I would prefer to live somewhere warm and along a cost.</p>
<p>What’s a colledge?</p>
<p>And plus, top 10% in your class doesn’t mean much, because for some schools that could mean 60 people (like in ours). And I totally agree with what mom2collegekids said, because your cynical attitude won’t lend much interest towards admissions officers anyway…</p>
<p>I don’t know why everyone is being so rude about typos and spelling mistakes, I make them all the time. Here are some ideas:
Auburn University (Which may be good for you for its honors program.)
Any of the California State Polytechnic U schools
California State: Long Beach
Embry-Riddle
Florida Institute of Tech.
Georgia Institute of Tech.
MIT (Not warm, but incredible!)
RPI (Same as above)
Syracuse
Texas A&M
U of Alabama
U of Arizona
UC Davis, Irvine, LA, or San Diego
U of Central Florida
UFlorida
UMaryland
UMiami
U of Southern California
UTexas
UVA
Virginia Polytechnic</p>
<p>Not all of these fit everything you want but I think, in particular USC and UMiami might be good fits.</p>
<p>Don’t let people tell you that you have to go to a school like Purdue or Georgia Tech in order to get a job in engineering. My sister got a co-op job at NASA by beating out applicants from MIT, Georgia Tech, & Cal Tech and she goes to Auburn University (she’s a sophomore in aerospace engineering). So DO NOT listen to these people that rattle off the “top engineering schools” they found off some website. They honestly have no idea what they’re talking about. </p>
<p>When it all comes down to it, it’s not WHERE you go, but what you DO while you’re there.</p>
<p>Lastly, Auburn University is an excellent engineering school that’s growing VERY rapidly. You should really look into it. It’s a great college town too.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech, drive by campus and you’ll fall in love, plus it’s a short walk to The Varsity (look it up if you don’t know what that is). It’s in the heart of Atlanta, so you get the big city experience plus the weather’s nice. And they have one of ghe best engineering programs in the nation too. But without an SAT score, who knows if you can get in or not…</p>
<p>There is no way this kid is going to be admitted to MIT or an Ivy League school. Georgia Tech would aslo be a big reach. Purdue actually makes sense even though it is not warm there and it is not along a cost [sic].</p>
<p>What’s wrong with applying to big reaches? Sure they have <20% acceptance but when you don’t apply you have a 0% chance.</p>
<p>your[sic] avrge[sic]. nuttin[sic] much beter[sic] then[sic] a 3.5.
jk</p>
<p>But seriously, about 10% of my HS is going to UVa. I’m not thinking “I’ve worked too hard to be going to the same school as those people.” I know that I can look forward to an excellent education. it’s a bad attitude and I do not recommend feeling better than someone else based on GPA, to me an arbitrary value. Rankings be darned I don’t need a top 20 school in order to succeed.</p>
<p>UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, and UCSD are all great schools that have generally pleasant, warm climates and are near beaches.</p>
<p>You won’t get the nice weather, but Syracuse has a good aerospace program, they’re one of three schools with a full flight simulator apparently (thats what they told us when I visited).</p>
<p>“What’s wrong with applying to big reaches? Sure they have <20% acceptance but when you don’t apply you have a 0% chance.”</p>
<p>He has zero chance of being admitted to MIT or an Ivy League school. He should save the cost of the application fee.</p>
<p>Just curious, do you happen to sit on the admissions committee of every ivy league school and MIT? No? Then I think you shouldn’t say things like that unless you can literally guarantee, in writing, that he won’t et it. It’s his money.</p>