<p>I saw that UW Madison was already suggested. Most large public universities would provide much of these requirements.</p>
<p>No one thinks Michigan would be a fit? It's not in an ideal location, but Ann Arbor's a nice place. </p>
<p>It's probably one of the best public schools outside of UCB,UCLA, and UNC.</p>
<p>I like Michigan, but I don't know if it is realistic. OOS and Rank will kill me there.</p>
<p>I have a pretty good list I think. 3 more suggestions and I'll post it to see what you guys think.</p>
<p>bump up
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<p>Stanford doesn't count freshman year grades. It's still a reach, but you have a shot.</p>
<p>Northwestern.</p>
<p>I don't think I would have a shot at all there.</p>
<p>Look at UNH - the University of New Hampshire. They won't have everything you want, but the campus is close to Boston, and there will be plenty of politics to for you - especially during the presidential primary season. The engineering and science programs are incredibly strong and supported in world class research.</p>
<p>Boston University(ED)
University of Southern California
University of Washington
CMU
University of Maryland: College Park
George Washington University
Purdue
WPI
NEU
UC: Davis
University of Colorado at Boulder
Syracuse University
Toronto
University of British Columbia
Case Western Reserve University
University of Minnesota: Twin Cities
UIUC
University of Delaware
University of Rochester
Santa Clara University
Stanford(for the lulz)</p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
<p>Look, let me first say that you are bright, and you will do well in industry or business with or without a well known college.</p>
<p>I am not trying to be impolite... just honest and straightforward. You asked! You wrote that you have a rising GPA when excluding Freshman year, yet the improvement is .0.1 from 3.5 to 3.6 when excluding Freshman year. 3.2 unweighted and 3.6 Weighted is a huge red flag. A quick conclusion would be that you are a bright kid who is either bored with school, or doesn't know how to apply himself to classwork.</p>
<p>In general, your stats <em>match</em> to USNWR ranks 60-100 (and only those colleges attracted to your SAT scores)
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Your reaches would be USNWR 40-59. (i.e. 30% if you applied to several)</p>
<p>Your extreme reaches would be USNWR 25-40 (i.e. 15% chance if you apply to several)</p>
<p>Those are just my gut feeling. Your SAT matches honestly to <em>any</em> college assuming you have great GPA, essays, recs and ECs. But your GPA is killing you. The single highest correlation to good performance in college is not SAT, but GPA. Every adcom lives by that.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice.</p>
<p>With out freshmen year it was up .4 points.That was 3.6UW without freshmen year compared to 3.2UW with it....</p>
<p>Anyways ranking aren't important. I want school that fits most of these want so I can be happy there.</p>
<p>Oh, that is a huge difference... almost nothing I wrote applies.. and proves there are times I cannot read....or in the words of Emily Litella "NEVERMIND!"</p>
<p><em>Starting over</em>, 3.6 UW is strong. Here are my new projections:</p>
<p>In general, your stats <em>match</em> to USNWR ranks 35-60. </p>
<p>Your reaches would be USNWR 20-35. (i.e. 30% if you applied to several)</p>
<p>Your extreme reaches would be USNWR 10-20 (i.e. 15% chance if you apply to several)</p>
<p>Use collegeboard to find out what schools match your scores/gpa.</p>
<p>Rutgers....</p>
<p>SO what do you guys think of the list?</p>
<p>There are many colleges which offer world-class professors and the opportunity for a wold-class education which are not extremely hard to get into. Minnesota, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan State, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Alabama, Auburn, North Carolina State, Oregon, and Purdue are examples. As a bonus, most also have bigtime sports, pretty campuses, and are moderately priced, even for out-of-staters.</p>
<p>tru dat, tourguide446</p>
<p>Did anyone look at the list on the last page?
To TourGuide and Dunnin, I listed Purdue,Minnesota and Colorado.</p>
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