College Applications

Stefywefy215

Here, tell us how your college application if going, and where you hope to be going. I try to complete as many applications as possible during the day. Whenever I don't have homework, I'm always on CSUmentor or CommonAPP (Damn supplements). Ive already messed up my application to Sacramento State but its not like I actually wanted to go there(safety school). My CUM GPA right now is 3.35 weighted. My SAT scores are Critical reading 530, Math 640, Writing 540 and I am waiting for my October 6th test scores. I go to a college prep school where they take my schools rigorous curriculum into account. Also, if I apply to any Jesuit school, they will take the fact that I went to a Jesuit high school into account which is nice. Right now I have compiled a list of where I want to go.

Loyola Marymount: I love this place, but it may be a bit of a stretch to get in. Also the cost is a turnoff but still, I would really love to go here.

UC Davis: great school, just in cow town. But it is like 45 inutes away from home but hard to get into

CSU Sacramento: Near home, but this is my safety school and is a bit of a waste of my high school education.

USF: Dad went there. that's about it.

Gonzaga: my counselor said that this one is a good goal. Also, the representative came over to our school and I heard good things about it.

Seattle: still have to look at the site

Marquette: same as Seattle

Old considerations:

Pepperdine: Beautiful school. Cost was a turn off and they don't offer engineering

Creighton: no engineering

Santa Clara: too hard to get into

Saint Mary's: Reminds me too much of my Empoleon look-alike English teacher

Well, I would like to hear how your process s going
 
I'm applying to mainly engineering schools. I really enjoy electrical engineering and PLC programming in my tech class at school.

Weighted GPA: 4.156 (we offer a few AP classes and they count as +1 to the class grade that you received if you get at least 70% on the exam)
Class Rank: 1 out of 252
PSAT Score: 202 (multiply this by 10 to get approximate SAT score, I was a National Merit qualifier with a score over 200)
ACT: 29 (This is good but I bombed the writing and science, can't wait until the retake. I'm shooting for a 31-32 out of 36 max.)

I've applied to:

Kettering University: the US News #3 ranked engineering school in the US and #1 ranked in industrial engineering. They are formerly the General Motors Institute. It's a private school that will run about $30,000 a year, however, I qualify for a scholarship that pays for half of it. You go to school for 3 months and work on the job in a co-op for 3 months, working on a graduation product and as an engineer for the company. You make up to $60,000 during the 4 years of school and have the option of working for companies such as GM, Ford, NASA, Whirlpool, Delphi, Stryker, etc. Any big company you can name, they have a co-op set up with them. After college, the company hires you right away and you're on the job, making usually at least $50,000 starting out. The big con for this school with me is that they don't have a cross country team. I guess I need to think about 40 years down the road, not 40.

Michigan Technological University: one of the top engineering schools in the state. I'm applying for their full ride scholarship that 3 students in Michigan win. If I win it, it will most certainly become perhaps my #1 choice. It's about $20,000 and I would have a shot at being varsity as a freshman on their Cross Country team. While they don't have a co-op that is extensive as Kettering's, they do offer co-ops after freshman year with what looks to be many of the same companies that Kettering offers them with. They also have an "Enterprise Program" that allows teams of students to compete for the attention of a company by going out and designing something for solving a problem to make the company more productive.

University of Michigan school of engineering: it's U of M, a school. I'm not sure how into this one I am. I'm applying to it regardless but I really doubt I will go there. It's just as expensive as the other schools except that there are little scholarships, no co-op program that I've heard of, and I wouldn't be on their cross country team.



Schools I've given up on:

The United States Military Academy (West Point):
I went here for a week this summer to their summer leadership seminar in which only 800 students worldwide who applied were selected to stay. It was an amazing experience that I will most certainly never forget. I would, in fact, enjoy military life. The school is free and has state of the art facilities, being all paid for by the government. There are tons of athletic teams and I'd have a shot at being on their Cross Country team. I'd be more interested in their marathon club though. Anyway, it's the #4 ranked mechanical engineering in the US.

They actually pay you $9,000 a year to attend for 4 years with free medical and dental and everything and then $30,000 a year as a 2nd lieutenant in the army for 5 years. This is the part that I wouldn't look forward to. While I didn't mind military life and really enjoyed the comradery of it, the prospect of war just isn't something that I would be looking forward to. A recent graduate of West Point in my area was just killed after I made the decision not to continue my application process. I talked to one of the professors who reminded me very much of myself and being an engineer in the war isn't as easy as I thought it would be. You're more or less just an officer. His platoon was in charge of clearing mine fields and other field work. I was hoping that it would be more of something that would involve just working for the military and designing future weapons of war.
 
I applied two years ago. It was so easy because I just applied to two CSUs and two UCs. I wanted to major in journalism, and I wanted to stay nearby, so that narrowed it down to four colleges. No recommendations, nada, zip. We did the big essay in class, and I did the two smaller prompts on my own. Just fill out one application, check the boxes, and go.
 
I thought you went Sac. State? My cousin goes there. I'm probably going to be applying for UC Davis. Hopefully I have good SAT scores and the grades to get in.
 
i think we have some guys in uc davis. i think batpig is there, and i think zerowing was/still is...not sure. i think he had some financial trouble and is now working and will eventually get back to it. so, you should go there so when(if) i visit we can party.
 
Weighted GPA: 4.02
SAT: 2340
PSAT: 2180 (bleh, oh well)

I'm going to apply to some UC schools, SD, LA, and Berkeley, and then some private schools, and then some crappy schools for backup.

I shouldn't have taken that many AP classes (7 I think). I should have just taken the easy A ones like Calc AB and BC, and physics mechanics, and bio, and my GPA would have been much higher. But what's done is done, and I've got this bad GPA to work with.

My only problem is the money, so I'll need to get lots of scholarships.
 
Yeah, I would hope that schools look at the classes I took and think, "hey, this guy is challenging himself with lots of AP classes, we've got to give him some credit."

In my school, I'm not even in the top 10% of my class, but my SAT score is abnormally high, so hopefully, my GPA and SAT score will kinda cancel out haha.
 
From what I learned two years ago when I was starting to get letters back from the colleges I applied to...

They're incredibly unpredictable.

Two colleges I applied to were University of Virginia and William & Mary. In general, W&M is considered to be more selective than UVa because of its reputation and size (W&M has a considerably smaller student body). At the end of the day, I got waitlisted by W&M and flat-out rejected by UVa. Similarly, I had a friend who graduated from high school a year before me, and he also got rejected by UVa and then accepted by W&M.

And despite applying to UVa, I now go to Virginia Tech. XD

Anyway, the point of all of the above is just to be wary- don't develop a false sense of security just because of what "everyone says" about a certain college. Also, good luck to you all.
 
Man, <.< I so sucked at the whole College App thing.

The school I had decided to go to was a sure thing (and my tuition/1 year of dorm/one semester of books) was paid for... so I turned in my application late, *coughs*

But ... yeah, don't go my route. It wasn't wise, all around; even if I had already chosen what I was doing.
 
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