<p>Hey so my junior year is coming to a close so i thought this is a good time to start building a college list.
Stats: 2250 (1510/1600) 760 Chem, taking math and physics this sat.
4.000 uw 7 ap's 4.243 w, but i will prolly get a B this semester :(
rank=5 or 6/650? i don't know the exact number of students .
Decent Ec's, not amazing, but not bad in my op.
I am mainly thinking about engineering or business but i don't know too much what i want to do
Heres a list i have made but i am asking for y'all to add to this</p>
<p>Ultimate reach <1% chance lol.
MIT, DUKE, Cal Tech, Cornell, Princeton, Olin, Stanford, Harvey Mudd, U penn, North western, JHU, </p>
<p>Reach- Berkeley(oos), Ucla (oos), U mich (oos), University of Texas (oos), U illinois (oos) my dad loves this college for some reason; he says its hard to get into. Rensselaer poly. Illinois inst. Tech., Univ. Maryland college park (oos)</p>
<p>Match- New mexico tech. (going there for a summer program called ssp, so i will prolly have increased chances there maybe?) RIT, Univ. Wasington, </p>
<p>Safety- Oregon State (in-state) OIT (in-state)</p>
<p>As you can see i need more matches and safeties to add to my list. I will most def. cut from this list. No way i am applying to 20+ lol. But i need more suggestions cos frankly my knowledge of some of the colleges out there is a limited</p>
<p>I agree with 20Legend. Michigan, UIUC, Texas, RPI and IIT aren't reaches, they are matches....even "safe" matches. </p>
<p>But 20Legend, I don't see how the OP can shoot higher. He already has Cal, Caltech, Cornell, Duke, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Michigan, Northwestern, Penn, Princeton and Stanford on his list. That's 10 out of the top 20 universities in the US. He intends to major in Business and Engineering and the above list contains almost all of the top 10 Engineering and Business programs. </p>
<p>A-Card, you did not mention Carnegie Mellon and Rice. Both have excellent Engineering programs too. Otherwise, your list looks good. You need to study each of those schools and narrow your list to 10 or so.</p>
<p>I agree with everyone- you are underestimating yourself. Your dad is right about U Illinois flagship campus- great for engineering and computer science. If your finances are in order, you can apply to a lot of the top schools, two or three easy matches, and one or two total safeties.</p>
<p>Over the next few months, in addition to pondering engineering v. business, give some serious thought to what type of environment you want to be in. Small school or big, rural or city, snow or not, big-time sports or intramurals? Big difference in lifestyle between a Caltech and a Cornell or a Mudd and a University of Illinois. </p>
<p>S1 wanted small school for his bachelors, which may have been the decisive factor when he was deliberating between Mudd and MIT. S2 wanted small/medium sized school in a very big city, which led him to Rice--even though it lacked the snow that was another of his factors. Those factors are "merely" subjective, but they become crucial when you have the ability to choose among a number of top schools. (And they narrow your application pool. By the time we found the engineering school at Univ. of Illinois, it had pretty much been taken off both boys' lists. Some of their friends, however, had the exact opposite reaction to that school.)</p>
<p>One engineering school that you might want to look at, maybe a safety, is Rose Hulman in Terre Haute, Indiana. Fantastic undergraduate engineering school that is slightly larger than Mudd--with which it shares first place on one of the various rankings of undergraduate engineering (non-doctoral) schools. </p>
<p>Location not to everyone's taste, but well worth looking into. One of S2's friends chose it over Rice this year because he didn't want to be in a big city--but S1 and S2 decided against it, primarily on location grounds. ALSO--a huge benefit of Rose is that it has rolling admissions. If you are interested in it, apply early and you'll have a result back prior to the early application/decision submission deadlines at other schools; takes some nervousness out of the application process.</p>
<p>Your most important decision will be whether you want engineering, business, or both. Caltech, Mudd, Olin, Rensselaer, Rose, and the like (other than MIT) are not known as great places for business majors.</p>
<p>i'd also have to agree -- i think you're really selling yourself short with that list... i would almost say that you should bump everything down on your list (aka MIT is reach, berkeley is match, new mexico is safety) but thats my opinion...good luck with applications though!</p>
<p>yeah i am going to ssp in just a little over a week. I am really excited. YEah GA tech,rice, CMU,hulman and Virg. tech seem good. Also i was looking online and saw that purdue also has a strong engineering program.
I prolly looking for a fairly small undergrad. Like 1000-2000 frosh max. I preferably would like a seprate campus which is not in a city, but is close to a city. I want a college where life revolves a lot on campus.
MIT is like perfect, ( i visited there) but the campus suxs in my op. (but its a small trade off, i really like MIT). Now if only it was not impossible to get into.</p>