I think Marquette is well worth consideration. Milwaukee has become a great smaller city…with LOTS to do. Marquette has great engineering programs. It’s not all that far from Chicago.
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Of course, that page’s example shown below:
is not a particularly good one, since CPP and SJSU have highly variable admission thresholds by major, and they do publish prior year thresholds on their web sites, so use of admission rates and general stats is a less accurate way of assessing unrealistic/reach/match/likely/safety.
There are lots of schools with stated automatic admission (or scholarship) criteria for specific stats. Such a school can be designated as a safety if the student meets the criteria and the school is affordable.
The minimum number of schools to apply to is one safety.
Milwaukee also has MSOE, which is STEM-focused and a little more competitive than Marquette-generally, but I’d guess that Marquette’s engineering-specific stats would probably be similar to MSOE’s if they were broken out. Both have merit potential and excellent engineering programs.
UW-Madison has already been mentioned… but it jumps out at me as checking the “prestige” box without breaking the budget (OOS COA $61K/year), and being within excursion range of Chicago while being in a great college city of its own.
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Uw Madison is great but the gpa may be too low for oos, also be aware they require higher level math. They expect calculus.
OP, This ^ is very common: most selective Engineering programs will expect calculus (AB or BC) or higher as well AP physics (1 or 2 if offered) or DE equivalent.
However less competitive Engineering programs will be okay with an A in precalculus honors and honors physics (or even just Physics if that’s all your HS offers; if your HS doesn’t offer either subject, make sure your GC writes it in their report).
Where are you wrt calculus and physics?
My highest math right now is Honors Precalc, I was planning to take Calc BC senior but our school requires AB as a prerequisite, so instead I am taking Calc AB next year.
As for UW Madison, does having a sibling attend there affect my application? Could I include it in my essays or something?
Currently, I am taking Honors Precalculus and Honors Chem. For senior year I have AP Calc AB and AP Physics 1 on my schedule. I would’ve jumped right to BC but my school does not let us.
What’s a website that does this most accurately? I’ve searched and across many websites give a varying answer which is confusing.
To my knowledge the best you can do is try to find this on each college’s website.
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But keep in mind that most schools don’t publish that level of detail. In fact, most public schools don’t even publish IS vs OOS differences.
The rule of thumb is that at a competitive, popular public school: out of state stats will be higher than in-state, and higher still (possibly much higher) for competitive majors at schools that admit by major.
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That’s perfect. 
Yes, I shouldn’t make it sound like this always exists to find.
I agree if you can’t get that information you can least look for OOS, and assume OOS Engineering will likely be even lower than that at the more prominent engineering publics. If you can’t even get OOS, just make that assumption twice over from the general admission rate. Less than ideal but it can help you at least get a rough idea of how to categorize that possibility.
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Calc AB will work for pretty much every school in the country. That’s a normal path for a high performing student. There’s nothing to say. It’s great.
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