What's the best engineering school for my stats???





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By Trackstr777 (Trackstr777) on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 09:36 pm: Edit

1390 SAT (680/710 eng/math)
85 average unweighted, 93 weighted, first two years
Honors classes first two years (highest courses available)
I moved to Florida, from NJ, and now attend an IB school, and take all IB courses
Now have almost all A's (with 96 pre-calc, 97 physics)

BETA club (community service, fund-raising)
Quizbowl Team (state-wide competition)
US FIRST Robotics Team (well-known national competition)
Winter and Spring Track fresh/soph years (made varsity, nothing special)


My question is, with great grades for the next two years, can I counter-act my bad grades fresh/soph years?

In other words, while I've basically given up hope for CalTech/MIT, what are my chances at the other top engineering schools in the country, and if possible, which are match/reach?

By College (College) on Sunday, November 09, 2003 - 01:01 pm: Edit

bump...

By Pseudofunk (Pseudofunk) on Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 01:28 pm: Edit

My stats were similar to yours- especially my first two years of high school. I just didn't care. Now I'm a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which has a great reputation for engineering as well as being a top tier school, and consistently one of the Top 50 schools in the country. They were forgiving of the first half of my high school career, and are great with fianancial aid. You should really consider RPI.


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