I think I’m going to drop some OOS public colleges off my list for another private school.
Your other posts indicate interest in CS, rather than any kind of engineering. Still true? If not, what kind of engineering is of interest? What kind of net price are you looking for, and is it likely that you will find that in the net price calculators of various colleges?
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/18866045/#Comment_18866045 compares the CS course offerings at many smaller schools.
@ucbalumnus Well, CS is now my second choice. Aerospace engineering or mechanical if the school doesn’t have AE. I don’t care so much about net price. Private schools are what, about 60+k? But nobody pays sticker price. Yes, I know some schools are much better about meeting need than others. That’s why I want a more average school, so hopefully I get some merit aid in addition to need-based aid.
Your other posts indicate that you have a 3.92 HS GPA, 1480 SAT CR+M, and 2240 SAT CR+M+W.
http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/ lists automatic full tuition or better at the following smaller schools with mechanical and/or aerospace engineering:
Alabama - Huntsville (near NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
Tuskegee
Howard
Florida A&M
Louisiana Tech
Prairie View A&M
http://competitivefulltuition.yolasite.com/ lists schools with competitive full tuition or better scholarships. Among these, Illinois Institute of Technology and Stevens Institute of Technology are small engineering-focused schools. But some other schools in the list also have mechanical and/or aerospace engineering.
If you make National Merit, there is also this list: http://nmfscholarships.yolasite.com/
@ucbalumnus I know; I’ve combed through that website and the one for NMFs so many times. 
I was really considering applying to Texas A&M because of guaranteed scholarships and admission. I’m just worried a little about culture shock.
I have a number of safeties right now. I’m just looking for a okay/good school (like Case Western level) that’ll give me some scholarships. Yea, money matters to me, but I also want a good education and college experience.
At selective private schools with ~$60K sticker prices, typically about half of all students pay the full sticker price. The richest, most selective ones do give generous need-based aid, but only if you meet their definition of “need”.
If you’re hoping to get aid of any kind, then it seems you really do (or should) care about net price.
A high stats, high-need student may well get the worst net price offers from “average” schools.
If that’s what you are, then you’re likely to do better either at very selective, wealthy, “full need” private schools or at less selective colleges that offer large, automatic merit scholarships.
If your need isn’t huge (let’s say, your family could afford ~$35K/y) then there other schools roughly as selective as Case Western that might offer an affordable net price (through some combination of need-based and merit aid.) Check out Rose-Hulman for example. For family incomes of $75,001 - $110K, its average net price is $33,004 (acc. to College Scorecard). Or consider Clarkson University (NY), where the average net price for that income range is $26,928. For Case Western, it’s $29,446; for Boston University, $32,141.
Compare these numbers to Princeton’s, where the average net price for that income range is $16,976.
You might pay even less after an automatic full tuition scholarship from a school like the University of Alabama. But be sure to run the NPCs on your own family’s numbers.
U Dayton has a good engineering program and internships with the Air Force Research Laboratories. UAH would be similar with Redstone Arsenal.
Trinity College in Hartford, CT…has an ABET-accredited engineering program and is test optional for admissions.
Lafayette, Lehigh, Bucknell, Union, Villanova to name a few.
Ohio State, U Toledo have merit scholarships and extra for engineering, but not sure if deadline hasn’t already passed for OSU. Also U Cincinnati. You have good stats, might qualify for merit at U Pittsburgh.
Union, Clarkson.
Did you apply to U Rochester?
University of Evansville - in Evansville IN.
Test-optional would not really be of use for the OP at Trinity (CT), since the OP’s SAT scores are above Trinity’s 75th percentile in all three sections.
Second for Dayton. My oldest got a very generous offer from them with not nearly your stats.
Also check out Northeastern.
@tk21769 I will apply to Vanderbilt but I don’t think I can get in. My stats are okay, my ecs probably average or below average. I can’t really think of any other good privates (with good aid) that I can get into.
I’m basically middle class. I think our efc is about 25k.
Will your parents actually be able to afford $25,000 per year? (You may have to take federal loans or work for a few thousand more.)
Of course, many schools have a different notion of EFC than the FAFSA one. See their net price calculators.
Bradley University in Peoria, IL; good mechanical engineering program.
University of Alabama at Huntsville; good aeronautical engineering program (although a public university, it might be worth a look).
Also, this website might give you some other ideas: http://best-engineering-colleges.com/
Lafayette in PA, is a really nice campus with excellent engineering programs and your stats would make you competitive for 40K per year merit.