HEY!! Do I have a chance at these schools?
ACT score: 34 (Math 33, English 34)
SAT 2…haven’t taken yet
3.99 GPA.
EAs: Student council president, astronomy club president, school newspaper co-editor, environmental club, dancer (ballet – distinctions on all exams) for like 15 years…Philippines mission team, tutor 4 students in math and science, did 50hrs vegetative surveying and data analysis over summer…work 20 hrs/week…also volunteer at my church.
AP classes: AP Bio and AP computer science (only ones my school offers) and Calculus (it’s at the AP level but my school doesn’t count it as an AP course i might challenge the exam)haven’t taken any of the AP tests yet.
build robots in my spare time
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However, if your credentials are real, you should have no trouble being competitive for entry into any of the schools you mention. Whether you actually get invited depends on criteria not under your control – quotas, etc.
I’d also look at some of the excellent “boutique” USA Schools of Engineering – Rose-Hulman, Olin, Harvey Mudd, etc. Don’t sneer at the best Canadian schools – U of Toronto and U of Waterloo.
Do a standard undergraduate Engineering degree – Electrical or Mechanical, probably. Go for “Aerospace Engineering” in graduate school. While in the USA, in your final year or shortly afterwords, take the EIT/FE exam.
Being qualified and getting in are two different things. The majority of people who apply to Cal Tech, Stanford and MIT are qualified — but less than 10% get in. You need to set yourself apart. You have to make sure you have a great admissions essay.
Yes, you have a damn good chance.
Do you really want that and can you and your family afford the tuition is a better question that you should be looking for the answers to.
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