<p>MSU should be your math/safety. That said, Get that application out fast!! If you get in, you are done!!!
As an MSU grad, both undergrad and graduate school, it was a great place to be. Excellent education and environment.</p>
<p>Northwestern and Chicago seem like unrealistic reaches to me and both a financial and academic waste of your time to apply. </p>
<p>What about Central Michigan? My friend’s daughter loves it there. </p>
<p>Michigan has great schools. (That said as a NYer who went there OOS.)
Apply: Michigan, MSU, 2 easier MI U’s</p>