College list for engineering schools

[Anonymous]

What would you suggest for schools for engineering schools, prefer a diverse school on the east coast, will consider mid-west or Texas but not California (too far). Trying to limit to 6 schools) 2 reach, 2 target, 2 safety.

male minority MCPS
4.0 UW, weighted 4.8
1190 SAT
6 APs by junior year, so far, no scores above a 3) (physics, chemistry, AB calc, lang, apush, world)
2 years HS language (through level 4)

Good extracurriculars — varsity sports, great leadership / community service, peer tutor

Plans to take SAT again, and work over the summer before senior year. The only reason I mentioned he’s a minority is to emphasize his desire to be in a diverse environment

Georgia Tech and Rice are top of list.
What else do you recommend?

[Anonymous]

those are uber reaches

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What would you suggest for schools for engineering schools, prefer a diverse school on the east coast, will consider mid-west or Texas but not California (too far). Trying to limit to 6 schools) 2 reach, 2 target, 2 safety.

male minority MCPS
4.0 UW, weighted 4.8
1190 SAT
6 APs by junior year, so far, no scores above a 3) (physics, chemistry, AB calc, lang, apush, world)
2 years HS language (through level 4)

Good extracurriculars — varsity sports, great leadership / community service, peer tutor

Plans to take SAT again, and work over the summer before senior year. The only reason I mentioned he’s a minority is to emphasize his desire to be in a diverse environment

Georgia Tech and Rice are top of list.
What else do you recommend?

Not cut out for Engineering at GTech or Rice or honestly anywhere in the T75 for Engineering. The SAT and the AP scores are just not indicative of success at any school in that range.

[Anonymous]

I'll be honest, his AP scores and SAT don't align with his 4.0 UW GPA. That's a red flag unless you can explain it, especially given the suggestion that APs were easier this year.

How did he do on math portion of SAT?

[Anonymous]

And by minority, are we talking underrepresented minority or Asian?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll be honest, his AP scores and SAT don't align with his 4.0 UW GPA. That's a red flag unless you can explain it, especially given the suggestion that APs were easier this year.

How did he do on math portion of SAT?

Agree 💯

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What would you suggest for schools for engineering schools, prefer a diverse school on the east coast, will consider mid-west or Texas but not California (too far). Trying to limit to 6 schools) 2 reach, 2 target, 2 safety.

male minority MCPS
4.0 UW, weighted 4.8
1190 SAT
6 APs by junior year, so far, no scores above a 3) (physics, chemistry, AB calc, lang, apush, world)
2 years HS language (through level 4)

Good extracurriculars — varsity sports, great leadership / community service, peer tutor

Plans to take SAT again, and work over the summer before senior year. The only reason I mentioned he’s a minority is to emphasize his desire to be in a diverse environment

Georgia Tech and Rice are top of list.
What else do you recommend?

If Black make it very clear in the application and don't submit that SAT score.

[Anonymous]

Temple, VCU, UMBC, GMU are all schools with engineering, other majors if he decides engineering isn't for him, reasonable admissions, and diversity.

[Anonymous]

GMU
Drexel
Hofstra
UDel
Miami Ohio
UMBC

[Anonymous]

If you’d consider going as far as Florida, the FAMU-FSU joint engineering program might be of interest.

[Anonymous]

Case western, u of Rochester (I would Ed at both of these) and wpi or rit are if you don’t want to Ed. Others you mentioned are high reaches which could (maybe, if ED) work out in terms of admissions since urm but might not be best academic fit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GMU
Drexel
Hofstra
UDel
Miami Ohio
UMBC

Wouldn’t recommend Miami for URM but U Cincinnati nearby has a solid engineering program

[Anonymous]

University of Illinois Chicago
SUNY Buffalo

[Anonymous]

Georgia Tech requires test scores, if I recall correctly. Rice is test-recommended. His current score is nowhere remotely close to where it would need to be.

I would be concerned about making it through a top engineering program. There are plenty of less-selective schools that offer ABET-accredited engineering. I would strongly suggest finding one where his test score - wherever it ends up - is sufficient to submit.

[Anonymous]

This is why the TO policies are such a BS.