What do you think?

Colleges & Universities University of Pittsburgh
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<p>Hello, so I applied about a month back for Mechanical Engineering. I am planning on doing engineering and economics. </p>

<p>29 ACT
Top 100 national high school
Low GPA because of freshman year, but steady upward trend.
Good ECs
Only 2 APs
School doesn’t rank
From New York</p>

<p>When should I expect to hear back, and what do you think my chances are. </p>

<p>Thanks to ALL</p>

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<p>Fromm last year, the 25th percentile for accepted ACT scores was 26 and the 75th percentile was 31. At 29 you fall in between the two, around 50-60th percentile roughly. So your ACT is ok, maybe right around average.</p>

<p>The average weighted GPA last yeaer was a 3.97/4.0, so if you have a low GPA that will not help you since your ACT is not particularly high.</p>

<p>Are you Male or Female? What is your ethnicity? All of these things are very important, especially so in engineering. You are OOS but from NY which is a more popular state, so it helps but not as much as a “less popular” state would.</p>

<p>What kind of classes have you been taking? Are you taking more advanced math/science courses? Do you do better in those? What kind of ECs do you have? Math/Science related? Creative? Something that takes up a lot of time from studying?</p>

<p>You haven’t given enough information for anyone to tell you how you would do.</p>

<p>Data source: <a href=“http://www.ir.pitt.edu/cds/documents/CDS_2013-2014Pittsburgh.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ir.pitt.edu/cds/documents/CDS_2013-2014Pittsburgh.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;