<p>UIUC is kind of the obvious choice. It certainly isn’t a safety for her, but I’d say she has a shot. Illinois State might also be worth a look.</p>
<p>I second the recommendation of ASU.</p>
<p>I would recommend looking at schools in the general Chicago area: Northwestern, UIC, U Chicago, DePaul, Loyola, IIT, etc. You could go to different schools but still be near enough to get together or live together (provided that you can live off-campus, at least after freshman year).</p>
<p>Pittsburgh also has a number of universities in relatively close proximity.</p>
<p>Some college combos:
Carnegie Mellon/Pitt
UPenn with Drexel or Temple</p>
<p>Agreed with Columbia/Barnard, WUSTL/SLU, and colleges in Boston, or the alternative of you getting a nice scholarship offer at a school where your stats are above the average that your girlfriend could also get accepted at.</p>
<p>She could probably get into UIUC. How much is she willing to pay?</p>
<p>If she’s willing to pay OOS tuition, you’ve got some fantastic State-school combinations. For example, her stats are absolutely good enough to get her into University of Minnesota (say, the Liberal Arts School) and you could be in the University of Minnesota Honors Program, with a sizeable scholarship, in one of the more selective areas of the school like Carlson Business or the Science school.</p>
<p>If Illinois has an Honors Program, that would be awesome for you too. You could be in the Honors Program, she could be in the regular school. You could also try the same combo at Madison.</p>
<p>UIUC has an honors program, but from the people I’ve talked to that are in it all it does is let you register early, which is good but not anywhere near a decision-maker.</p>
<p>I definately would not rule out Madison for her. If she can pull out good grades her senior year and has good EC’s they will def. look at her with a 30-31 ACT.</p>
<p>Notre Dame for you and St.Mary’s college for her.
And maybe amherst for you, and hampshire, mount holyoke, umass-amherst for her.
Bryn Mawr for her swathmore/haverford for you maybe ? (although bryn mawr might be a reach for her…).</p>
<p>Boston would make a lot of sense, due to the possible combination of schools you can get there, as mentioned before.</p>
<p>IMO, you should first consider your own priorities, and make a list of the schools that you want to go to. Same for her. Then you two can consolidate and find a few matches in the same city/region.
Also, apply to a large number of schools, because for this to work, you are basically looking for TWO good acceptances, instead of just the ONE for most of us
Good luck.</p>
<p>she doesn’t want to go to an all women’s college…however when i was looking up barnard and bryn mawr it says they have coed dorms, and you can take classes at the neighboring universities. So what makes these colleges women’s colleges? thanks! and thanks for all the suggestions guys!</p>
<p>Barnard and Bryn Mawr have essentially single-sex housing. But the academic cross-registration is real. They are, however, distinctive women’s colleges in history, community, and “feel.”</p>
<p>Assuming i pursue my own interests in math and science, if I ended up going to UIUC, for example, and i did well/took the honors track courses, would i be able to get into top graduate schools? In other words, does the undergraduate university you attend lock you into the kinds of graduate opportunities you’ll have?</p>
