<p>GPA : 3.9 not weighted
SAT I 1580. M 800 V 780
MATH IIC 800 Writing 770
AP : Calc, Hist, Span, Bio, Stats.</p>
<p>EC :
Spring Baseball starting pitcher.
First chair violinist.
President of my school’s Asian Cultural club.
Involved with my school’s Keyclub.
Also editor of school’s newpaper.</p>
<p>Tutor freshmans weekly at my school</p>
<p>I’m Korean will this lower my chances?</p>
<p>oh and i’m interested in engineering.</p>
<p>UPenn, MIT, Cornell, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins.</p>
<p>I think being Korean would up your chances.</p>
<p>how about harvard? it’s worth a shot. . . being korean will raise your chances anywhere, but you should take another SAT II first…</p>
<p>Try any Universities that you want too. You have a good shot at all of them.</p>
<p>Good Luck on your future endeavors,</p>
<p>Jerod</p>
<p>It is impossible to tell what college is best for you since you give us no indication of what you want…other than a major. What size university/campus do you want? What sort of Engineering are you thinking of? Do you want to live in a big city or in a small college town? Does geography matter at all? Do you want to continue with Music?</p>
<p>For now, I am going to list the top 15 Engineering programs. </p>
<p>MIT
Stanford
Cal-Berkeley
CalTech
Michigan-Ann Arbor
Cornell
Princeton
Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Georgia Tech
Northwestern
Purdue-West Lafayette
Texas-Austin
Wisconsin-Madison
Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>But for us to give you a more accurate list, you really need to tell us what you want. Statistically, all universities are within your reach.</p>
<p>Do you need financial aid? Also, what state are you from?</p>
<p>the geography of the college doesn’t matter. i would like to continue with music…possibly computer engineering. i may need some financial aid…i am from new york.</p>
<p>Sorry to hear that you’re Korean. U.S. News recently ran an article pointing out that acceptance of Koreans at Ivy league schools has dropped significantly (~30%) over the past 5 years. But I’m sure you’ll over come this obstacle. Good Luck!</p>
<p>If you are trying to get into a competitive school, sports can help a lot. You should play up the baseball. There are not many Asian athletes applying, so it can really help.</p>
<p>Kevy, given the information you have given me, I would say apply to the following, in order of best fit:</p>
<h1>1 Stanford University</h1>
<h1>2 MIT</h1>
<h1>3 Cal-Berkeley</h1>
<h1>4 Michigan-Ann Arbor</h1>
<h1>5 Cornell University</h1>
<h1>6 Princeton University</h1>
<h1>7 Texas-Austin</h1>
<p>You are bound to get into a couple of those schools.</p>
<p>Rishinha, I read that same article, and I tottally agree with you. Your chances do drop with your ethnicity, but I have a suggestion to get around this tricky mess. Legally change your name to something White sounding (or if you want some help, change it to something sounding of another ethnicity, it might work!), then send your application in while declining the option to fill in you race. If all goes to plan, they should not see your Korean backround, and then come first day of school…BAM! they won’t know what hit them, and you’ll be in a good school that you like. If you like your new name, keep it, but you can always change it back.</p>
<p>Good Luck
Velocity
Yale Graduate</p>
<p>Look at Northwestern. It provides the very unusual opportunity to do a double degree in music and engineering-- at most schools, that’s impossible. With your stats, you’d almost certainly get into the engineering school. It would just be a question of your music audition.
Princeton, Columbia, Michigan, and Johns Hopkins are all excellent engineering programs with very good musical opportunities. Yale could also be a good fit. Vanderbilt and U of Rochester would be good backups.</p>
<p>Duke would be a good choice.</p>
<p>Look at University of Rochester. It has a great music school (Eastman), a great reputation and ranking overall, and guaranteed merit scholarships. Also, since you are from New York, apply to Binghamton just as a backup. You would also have a great shot at merit scholarships at NYU.</p>