Usually transferring INTO engineering is a challenge and sometimes isn’t even possible in college. You need to check each school to see if this will even be allowed.
Also, are you saying you want to apply as a biology major for college…but you haven’t taken any biology courses in high school?
I’d personally suggest applying to some excellent engineering colleges with rolling admissions, including for example Iowa State, Minnesota, and Pitt. This could put a high floor under your options, and then you can see where else you might get offers.
But the OP is planning to apply to college in one of these majors…with the intent of transferring to engineering. I personally think this plan needs to be carefully researched.
One of my kids was an engineering major initially…and that was in the college of engineering. Kid added biology as a second major. Biology was in the college of arts and sciences…
So…are you saying your parents can and will pay possibly $100,000 a year for each of your four undergrad years? That’s how much some of these colleges will cost.
I agree that Purdue is a good option…and decent cost even for out of state students.
You might also want to consider University of New Mexico.
AP Bio Is listed.
I saw and I edited my post.
Q: Does your high school English department offer Regular, Honors, & AP or just Regular & AP?
Q: Also, are you graduating with 3 English credits or 4 English credits?
And I have noticed a lot of job ads these days are saying they won’t take applicants who need visa sponsorship “now or in the future”, meaning OPT is no longer the same route in that it used to be.
This is part of the reason I asked about whether green cards were on the horizon, I don’t think that got answered.
And adding to the suggestion to apply for engineering if that’s what you want to do - it’s often hard to transfer in. The ECs you did in school do not define what major you can apply to…plenty students have very different ECs vs intended major.
Only going to address the California UC’s. They are currently test blind so your SAT score will not be considered for admissions or scholarships, only course placement.
You need to calculate out your 3 UC GPA’s: GPA Calculator for the University of California – RogerHub
UC requirements: 1 year of a Visual/Performing arts course which is not listed. Alternative ways to meet the requirement:
Score of 3, 4 or 5 on the AP Art History, Art and Design (2-D Art and Design, 3-D Art and Design or Drawing) or Music Theory exam; score of 5, 6 or 7 on any one IB HL exam in Dance, Film, Music, Theatre Arts or Visual Arts
Grade of C or better in any transferable course of 3 semester (4 quarter) units that clearly falls within one of four visual/performing arts disciplines: dance, drama/theater, music or visual art
2 years of a Language other than English is not listed. Alternative ways to meet the requirement:
Score of 3, 4 or 5 on the AP Language & Culture exam in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish or Spanish Literature & Cultures, or Latin; score of 5, 6 or 7 on an IB HL language B exam.
Grade of C or better in any transferable course(s) (excluding conversation) held by the college to be equivalent to two years of high school language. Many colleges list the prerequisites for their second course in language as “Language 1 at this college or two years of high school language.” In this case, Language 1 clears both years of the requirement.
Missing 2 of the UC a-g course requirements will make you ineligible.
While UCs and CSUs accept proven proficiency in a language other than English (check for the ways to prove that), other universities may have different rules on this matter, so check carefully for each.
The student goes to HS in CA so hopefully they’ve been prepped for the in state requirements.
Add Case Western to the list. They have good academic support, smaller classes and plenty of biomedical opportunities nearby.
If you’re only talking about the courses I’m taking, I didn’t took those course at US because I already did so in China.
Both foreign language and visual art.
These classes taken in China will count if they are considered high school credits.
How many years of high school did you do in China and how many in California?
I’ll reiterate what I said earlier. You are missing the course rigor for top schools. It’s also clear you have some English language defiiciencies based on your original post and your responses. You need more likely options. Sorry.
OK, so this is just my interpretation. You avoid things that are hard, like rigor in your English courses, or places, like CMU because they are “too academic”. Engineering courses blow the curve. Suddenly, you’re getting Cs and D’s and a lot of students drop out.
You’ve substituted rigor in your coursework for EC activities and have put your efforts into those, instead of putting your efforts into trying some of the coursework that is a challenge. You did not step out of your comfort zone. These schools want to see that you’ve tried a little bit of everything and that you’ve challenged yourself.
There’s no visual and performing arts courses mentioned.
I have three engineers in my family, and they took the most rigorous coursework in high school even though they hated some of it. Their time spent on EC’s, had to work around their academic coursework.
Newsflash: The English skills used in EE contractual language have to be really strong, especially because electrical engineering contracts can be very “academic”, complex, and “wordy”. You can’t avoid contractual language. I understand that you don’t have confidence in your English abilities, but it gets worse, as you advanced through your electrical engineering courses. If you’re returning to China, then it may not be an issue.
I do want to reiterate that none of the companies, where my family work, intend to sponsor any international candidates in the foreseeable future because it’s not worth their efforts, nor budgets for sponsorship. They have plenty of domestic applicants. Right now there’s a hiring freeze.
I would suggest you take a look at your list and put in some safeties that don’t require foreign language or a performing arts course.
Yes, they’re count into my high school credit.
Maybe you can edit the first post to properly reflect all your high school courses.
So here’s my thought when I chose the courses.
when I got to US it was second semester of 10th grade, so I just had no choice for my 10th grade course selection. When I rise to junior, which is the one I considered the most important, I need to take the academic courses and do the activities that others might spend 2 or 3 years on. So I took the AP chem, AP bio, AP csA, AP physics C, AP stat and self study AP calc bc… If that still shows I’m a person who avoid challenges, I don’t know.
Plus, as I’ve said, I almost got a B in american literature. I couldn’t imagine what would happen if I took the AP american lit. So my point is, I’m not trying to avoid challenges, I’m trying to avoid things that exceeds too much from my capability.
In addition to that, I’m just doing early decision to vanderbilt because it’s relatively better than others, I’m still applying to those challenging schools.
Thank you for advices.
Also, there is little admission difference from
a top 10 to Vandy. And top 10 is made up. There’s no such thing. But if they are alluding to a USNews rank.