<p>Have you talked to your parents about cost constraints, and to get the information needed to run the net price calculators on college web sites?</p>
<p>Are you a California resident?</p>
<p>Other good schools for engineering that are not super expensive include Virginia Tech, NCSU, and Minnesota.</p>
<p>MIT has well regarded economics and business departments.</p>
<p>Some of the <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-12.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-12.html</a> schools could be worth considering as safeties. For example, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa has automatic full out-of-state tuition + $2,500 for engineering majors with your stats, leaving remaining cost around $15,000 per year.</p>
<p>Note that Cal Poly SLO does not have chemical engineering; only Pomona and San Jose among the CSUs have chemical engineering.</p>