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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like your high school’s college counseling office has fallen down on the job a bit. We have been hearing from freshman year on how competitive the college process is currently. When I say “we,” I really mean “me,” because my husband and son basically tuned out all of the information (and also my warnings) until the end of junior year when they were shocked that DS didn’t have the stats to get into schools that would have been slam dunks 30 years ago. (eye roll)

Anyway, our son has similar stats, but unbalanced in the opposite direction, so I don’t have any personal experience applying to engineering or CS programs. DS has a friend with stats like your son’s (weighted toward math and science) who has been accepted to Pitt, Penn State, WPI, RIT, Denver, and Dayton for engineering, fwiw.

I would do as everyone else has suggested and get an appointment with your school’s college counselor to get a realistic list of colleges where kids from your high school have been successful. [/quote]

Thank you, this is how it is here too.  DH and I both went to top schools, and DH comes from a family of scientists with impressive alma maters.  So it's been shocking to see that schools we never considered "good" schools are now apparently out of reach.  We don't really want to put so much pressure on DS, as it seems this area is already ultra competitive, but we are really confused about this.  The counselor is no help at all - they just keep giving us lists of schools kids have gone to, and won't provide any kind of comparison.  [/quote]

College Confidential will help you understand the landscape.  But you also have to understand that engineering and computer science probably require higher stats than average.  The good news is Penn State is fairly friendly to OOS students.  Pitt gets a lot of love from the DMV.  But most of the time the parents want merit which isn't a given.  Delaware is nice option.  Minnesota is the new Pitt since it has rolling admissions.

You also may want to consider hiring a college counselor to help developing a list.  
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