<p>A. Has a population greater than 5000 undergraduates
B. Is an Engineering School (more importantly has chemical engineering)
C. Supports Liberal Views
D. Is located on the east cost
E. Isn't super religious
F. Is urban (Or has greater than 10k undergraduates and is rural)</p>
<p>You should probably be more specific as to what sort of school you think you are capable of getting into...your description can fit both MIT and Drexel University....</p>
<p>Though anyone from further east in PA will tell you CMU is midwestern (they say pop and not soda!), I'm sure you could consider Pittsburgh as east coast.</p>
<p>I agree with everyone else and say Carnegie Mellon. i think its urban unlike cornell but has also has a nice college campus. its also just as good if not better at engineering than cornell.</p>
<p>Just about every state university will have an engineering school, have 10,000 + students (or be in an urban area), be within your match/reach range (if CMU is) and will be naturally "collegiately" liberal and will not be terribly religious. But if you're just looking for private Us add Case Western to your list.</p>