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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You haven't told us anything about his/her personality, interests, or desire to go far away or stay close to home...so how can any anonymous person help you? [/quote]

Sorry, here’s more info:

- issue going away from home
- budget isn’t a huge concern, that’s assuming she can get scholarships 
- plays sports but wouldn’t get recruited as an athlete
- interested in engineering or architecture [/quote]

[b]Girl in engineering with those stats would get in nearly anywhere she wants to go and get some scholarships.[/b]  Does she like big or small?  Rural or urban? East coast, Midwest, west? How does she feel about two boys for every girl in the school or in her classes? If she wants a more balanced gender spread, then aim for larger universities where engineering is just one of many other colleges- but the classes will be heavily male.

If you are in VA, obvious choice is VT for Engineering and Architecture.  UMD-CP if you are in Maryland.

She has a shot at the crapshoot schools if she has taken the harder math and science APs and scored well.  (Physics C (Both), Chem, BC Calc)

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If she needs merit scholarships then don't bother applying to any top 25 universities except possibly Chicago, Vanderbilt, Duke, Rice, Emory and Carnegie Mellon.  Those are the only schools offering merit scholarships.

And the odds of getting accepted AND receiving a merit scholarship at those top schools with a 33 ACT is probably about 1%.

I would look at schools in the 25-50 range as many more scholarship opportunities for a 33 ACT there.[/quote]

If she wants to do engineering, look at schools like Case Western, RIT, RPI and WPI for merit scholarships. If she thinks she can bump up that ACT score it would be worth it to take again to get a 34+ or take an SAT. [/quote]

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