Need Help Narrowing Down the List

College Search & Selection
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<p>I have twelve colleges as of right now:
1. Cal Poly SLO (already applied for early decision)
2. San Diego State University
3. CSU Long Beach
4. UC San Diego
5. San Francisco State University
6. University of Colorado at Boulder
7. University of Oregon
8. UC Irvine
9. UC Berkley
10. Illinois Institute of Technology
11. UC Berkley
12. CSU Chico</p>

<p>I want to major in either civil engineering, architecture, or (maybe) structural engineering.
I would love to apply to all these schools but I don't have $660+ to spend in just application fees. So if I could get it down somewhere between 5-8 schools that would be great.
Thanks and any feedback is welcome</p>

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<p>Do all of these schools have all three of your potential majors?
Can you get into all of these or are some of them reaches?
Which ones can you afford? Some of these are clearly public schools where you would pay out-of-state tuition.
WHat factors matter to you? size, location, sports, greek life,etc.</p>

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<p>None of them offer all three. Almost all of them offer Civil Engineering with maybe a structural engineering here and an architecture or architectural engineering there.</p>

<p>According to parchment.com, I have 99% chances at SFSU, U of O, U of C, IIT, and CSU Chico. UC Berkely has the lowest at 28% then UCSD at 53%. The others are low 70’s to low 80’s range. (Is parchment.com accurate?)</p>

<p>I live in California so Oregon, Colorado, and IIT would be somewhat of a problem but they all have scholarships for simply having the GPA and test scores that I have (but I’ll look into this more)</p>

<p>Thank you for the help and guidelines. This will help A LOT</p>

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<p>Go on virtual yours. Check out the Princeton rankings and college ******* to find out what kind I students go to the school, could they potentially be your friends? Talk to former and current students :)</p>

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<p>Use statistics reported by the colleges themselves to see where you fit it. I don’t trust the data on sites that depend on students to self-report their scores and acceptances - you don’t know if the results are statistically valid. Use College Navigator [College</a> Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics](<a href=“http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/]College”>College Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics) or the College Board <a href=“https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-search[/url]”>https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-search&lt;/a&gt;
.</p>

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<p>If it helps you decide, IIT has the smallest undergraduate population of all of the schools on your list and it is the most urban of the ones you list.</p>

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<p>Thank you all.
This has really helped narrow down my list.
The College Navigator and bigfuture helped a lot BeanTownGirl</p>