<p>Well our school doesn't rank... but I mean more than half do get in to UT from our school, so I hope its not going to be a problem.</p>
<p>hmm yeah you should apply to mit, stanford, carnegie mellon, case, umich, vanderbilt, ut, and another random one of your choice, brown?</p>
<p>i think i'm applying to nine</p>
<p>I don't know this past year... a lot of weird things happened with UT, and I'm scared like I'll randomly be rejected from there lol and then I have no safety.... that's a scary thought... that's why I have a&m up there.</p>
<p>I'd take off the 2 UCs as being virtually impossible oos and Brown as a huge reach (you said MIT was non negotiable, but I would look at the stats that show how few with a 720 math get in).</p>
<p>DON'T leave only one safety. You need at least two shoe-in schools. You never know what may happen.</p>
<ol>
<li>MIT (cant take this off.... my dream school)</li>
<li>U penn</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
</ol>
<p>Match/Slight Reach (so few lol... or could some of those move down here?)
2. Carnegie Mellon
3. Cornell
4. Brown
7. John Hopkins
8. UCB (oos)
9. UCLA (oos)
10. U of Mich AA (oos)
11. UCSD (oos)
12. Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Safety/ Match
13. UT (in state)
14. A&M (in state)
15. Case Western</p>
<p>-only if u bring ur SAT grade... ur gpa is really good!</p>
<p>lol aseema's grades have always been amazing. you should've stayed at lakeee! top 10% haha</p>
<p>You don't need both A&M and Case Western. Why not drop one of the two. Of the three UCs, you should drop one, not sure which. But Bob**3 has a good point. If you are applying to a lot of schools, you need to set up an organized system anyway, and three more are not going to be that much extra trouble. It might be easier to just go with the list and have a lot of choices in the spring.</p>
<p>If I were you...</p>
<p>Visit UT and A&M over the summer. Pick the one you like most, and take the other off. </p>
<p>Take off three of the following: Brown, Cornell, Penn, Hopkins, UCB, UCLA</p>
<p>Apply to Colorado as another safety. Good engineering school, excellent reputation, superb location. Visit and be amazed. </p>
<p>But...I'm not you, so do what you think is best for you.</p>
<p>aseemo:</p>
<p>UCB/UCLA: Reach (Engineering, out of state)</p>
<p>I certainly appreciate that not everyone does well on tests, but would think the ones who are taking Calc III and Lin Alg & Diff Eq in hs are the ones who do. I'm not saying that 720M is a bad score, just that anyone smart enough to be in that level of math so early I would expect to be much closer to 800M.</p>
<p>if you are pretty sure you'll get into both of the state schools, pick the one you like more and apply there. are they rolling? if you get in, you don't have to apply to the other, if they're not, you do.</p>
<p>berkeley and ucla are very competitive out of state. do you really love them? if not, don't bother. i think you'd get into michigan.</p>
<p>vanderbilt seems like the odd one out on the list..</p>
<p>If you haven't already done so, I recommend visiting both UT and A&M as they are both excellent schools but with considerably different cultures (i.e. don't knock either one of them off as a safety unless and until you are convinced one or the other is not right for you). In the "one anecdote doesn't make a trend" realm but interesting info anyway, a friend's daughter was accepted to the University of Chicago and A&M from a North Texas high school. She chose A&M because she became very interested in engineering. Four years later she landed a fabulous engineering job with a multi-billion dollar construction firm in Houston. A couple years after that she is now getting an MBA at Northwestern (rated in the top five and sometimes number one for its Graduate Business School). As I'm sure you have often heard, one's safety school can very often be a fine launching pad for great things ahead. Obviously, similar success stories can be given for UT and virtually every other safety on your list.</p>