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<p>Hi! My major will most likely be materials engineering or chemical engineering, and I have a long list of colleges and universities, which I really need to shorten.</p>

<p>My preferences</p>

<p>Size:
not too small, but not too incredibly huge.</p>

<p>Atmosphere:
Good on-campus scene, but really fun & exciting surrounding area.</p>

<p>*Excellent & approachable faculty
*Excellent resources & is reputable
*Most undergraduates live on campus
*Interdisciplinary nature
*Good in business & economics as well
*Academic-type atmosphere, with diverse and social peers, but not exactly party school.</p>

<p>My list so far:</p>

<p>Stanford University
Princeton University
Northwestern University
Duke University
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cornell University
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Georgia Tech
Purdue
Carnegie Mellon University
Rice
University of Texas
Brown University
University of Virginia
Harvard University
Vanderbilt University
College of William and Mary
Johns Hopkins University
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Chicago</p>

<p>Are there any other schools that you would recommend? Which schools do you think I should look at a little closer and which I should omit?</p>

<p>Thank you so much for your time in advance-- I know it's a pretty long list!</p>

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<p>Now I get to ask you the most important question, which is the one you left out:</p>

<p>Which of those schools could you get into?</p>

<p>Do you have the stats for harvard, Princeton ect?</p>

<p>When you go through the list and pick colleges you have a realistic shot at getting in, I'm sure it will be a lot narrower.</p>

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<p>Add UCal-Berkeley. Apply to your first eleven (11) listed schools & delete the last ten (10) on your list. When you add Berkeley, you will have enough (12) schools to consider.</p>

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<p>Throw out Brown, William & Mary, and U Chicago --- not bad schools obviously, but not for Engineering. Some of those others are pretty big. What about Cal Tech, MIT, or Harvey Mudd? Add more safeties like Case Western, RPI, Stevens, WPI, perhaps Cal Poly SLO. Tufts? Clarkson? Bucknell, Beloit, Lehigh, IIT, Lafayette, Villanova, Union, FIT, Syracuse...?</p>

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<p>oops, Cal Poly SLO doesn't have Chem E so scratch that.</p>

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<p>The schools that you should be looking at:</p>

<p>Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
University Of California - Berkeley
University Of Wisconsin - Madison
University Of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Stanford University
University Of Illinois - Urbana - Champaign
University Of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Northwestern University
Rose-Hulman Institute Of Technology
Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo
Cooper Union
Bucknell University</p>

<p>these are the best schools in the fields of material and chemical engineering. UC-Berkeley and MIT would be the best fit for you. At big schools, the school becomes smaller within your individual department so you will not get lost even at UC-Berkeley</p>

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<p>Uchicago doesn't have an engineering program.</p>

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<p>Cornell & Northwestern seem to fit your criteria the best. Both have very good and reputable mat sci/chem engg programs.</p>

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<p>Wow! Thank you all so much. I'll definitely look into the colleges that you suggested. :D</p>

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<p>maybe look into Villanova - seems to fit the bill line to me. might be a little small though.</p>

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<p>University of Illinois is huge and in the middle of a corn field. Doesn't seem to match the size and location requirements you describe. Good Luck, you'll find the right one!</p>

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<p>MIT
UC Berkeley
Stanford
Princeton</p>

<p>UW Madison
UMich Ann Arbor
Northwestern
UT Austin
Carnegie Mellon</p>

<p>UMinn Twin Cities
Cornell University
UIUC</p>

<p>Clumped with schools of similar merit for undergraduate economics/business programs. All are good engineering schools.</p>

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<p>Interested in materials engineering or chemical engineering?
Here's the list:
Stanford University
Duke University
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cornell University
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Georgia Tech
Purdue
Carnegie Mellon University
Rice
University of Texas
Vanderbilt University
Johns Hopkins University</p>

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<p>^princeton has better chemE and northwestern has better chemE/northwestern than duke/vanderbilt. in fact, northwestern's mat sci is top-3 in the country; on the other hand, duke doesn't even have chemE program and vanderbilt doesn't have mat sci/engg for undergrad. please do some research before posting!</p>