<p>Really, you belong at a top school, so it’s difficult to recommend lower ranked schools. I don’t think you will be challenged. I can understand how you might not want OU, but you have to have some kind of safety and at least a big university will have graduate level courses you can take. You will find like souls in those classes. I just can’t think of any schools with warm weather that would be appropriate as safeties for engineering other than the big state u’s. You will quickly run out of math courses to take at most undergraduate schools. I’ll be hoping you get into one of your top choices. Post later and let us all know. If you really want to go out of state, Univ of Texas is probably a match (not a safety) and they have great engineering. Surely, in a huge school like that you will be able to find other studious undergraduates. I know several really smart people who went there.</p>