<p>You have a 4.0 GPA and good scores; you want a small to mid-sized school in a quiet environment (and presumably with a fairly serious academic atmosphere); you need a lot of financial aid. All that suggests avoiding most OOS public universities and focusing on selective, private, need-blind, full-need schools.</p>
<p>Many of the schools listed on the following page would be good candidates:
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<p>The University of Chicago is a good suggestion.
Also check out Northwestern’s MMSS program ([url=<a href=“http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/program/program-overview.html]Core”>http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/program/program-overview.html]Core</a> Curriculum, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences – Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need-blind_admission]Need-blind”>Need-blind admission - Wikipedia)).</p>
<p>Any of the 8 Ivy League schools might work, or MIT, or Duke, or Stanford. All these are very selective, of course.</p>
<p>The University of Rochester might be a good “match”.</p>
<p>Consider your own state’s public flagship as a safety or as another match.</p>
<p>A LAC might work, as long as it has a reasonably rich selection of econ and CS courses (and the econ courses have the mathematical orientation ucb describes.)</p>