Hi! I’m a current junior who has a starting college list but I’d like an outside opinion of people know more about colleges. It’d be great if you could give me some colleges that fit my criteria.
- my ACT is a 34 (32 Math, 34 Reading, 34 science, 36 English) and GPA is 4.0 UW, I work hard in school and I'd like to go to a college where students are high achieving but it doesn't have it be a top 10 school or anything
- I'm interested in life sciences (envi sci and biology) and math, and my most likely major is either environmental or biomedical engineering so I want a good engineering school
- Want to have access to a pretty big city, either nearby or right outside campus
- I'm from the northwest and have family in the east, so I'd love to be somewhere on the west or east coasts (really just trying to avoid really southern schools/the Midwest)
- would love to have a good Christian community of any denomination but that's not required.
I know there are a lot of factors such as financial aid but I’m not really super worried if the suggestions are reach/safety schools or how much they cost I would just love to hear some recommendations. I’d like to apply to at least one ivy league school so if you have an idea of which would be best for me that’d also be great!
this sounds similar to what I’m looking for (except your GPA’s way higher than mine lol).
some schools that seem like they’d fit your criteria
- Rutgers NB (the Rutgers system seems to be good for bio, med & pharm related fields)
- UCSD (v competitive/cutthroat, US News #6 for biomed engr, and there are many biotech companies in SD)
- Baylor (Christian research university, has its own medical school, it’s in TX tho)
- UW-Seattle (seems v competitive, US News #11 for bio med engr)
Some more options – on the coasts, in or pretty close to a big city, offering Biomed/Environmental Eng or Bio/Math/Biology. Check that these have a Christian club – I would bet they do. Certainly there are churches nearby:
- Harvard
- Princeton (check distance to Philly/NYC)
- Yale (is New Haven big enough?)
- Stanford (check distance to San Fran)
- MIT
- Columbia
- Caltech
- Penn
- Brown (is Providence big enough?)
- Duke (is Durham big enough?)
- Johns Hopkins
- Georgetown (double-check majors)
- Emory (close enough to coast?)
- Berkeley (not much aid OOS)
- UCLA (not much aid OOS)
- USC
- Tufts
- Georgia Tech (close enough to coast?)
- Boston College (double-check majors)
- NYU
- BU
- Brandeis
- U of Miami (FL) - double-check majors
In all cases, check for other areas of fit and run NPC to see if it would (likely) be affordable.