<p>How about Rose-Hulman? Or are you averse to a school that small? Much, much better engineering than Dayton, and I think you'd be a nice candidate for merit $. Milwaukee School of Engineering and Case Western also throw around quite a bit of merit dough and are not too far away. If you want a larger school, how about Waterloo in Ontario? It is probably the premier engineering university in Canada, and Int'l tuition there is still way cheaper than OOS at most U.S. schools. </p>
<p>Just throwing a few ideas out there for you, as I think you could probably drop GVSU and especially Dayton from your list. Dayton is definitely a safety for you, not a match. You are underestimating your own admissions potential, I think.</p>