Need help with College Search

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<p>This is another throw-out-some-names thread, but I just wanted to see what other college names I can look into. </p>

<p>Here's what I'm looking for (perhaps others are looking for the same thing):
- Strong in different engineering majors (probably applying as chemical engineer, but prob will change), great academic program with the good capstone project, faculty
- Research Opp, perhaps co-op, employment opportunities
- Diverse
- Some social life. Though, through reading these forums, I know engineering is a tough major, I'm not exactly readily eager to give up the whole college experience in exchange for 24/7 studying, though I'd do it if needed.<br>
- Low as possible class size. I'm the type of person who needs personal attention aka I get confused, must. ask. question.
- Non competative atmosphere, help each other out kind of deal
- Location: Northeast, maybe east but not necessarily bound to that area (tho my mom would be happier if it were) Personally, I'm pretty flexible.
- Size: Probably smaller because of the class size I want and I'm generally not talkative, but I probably wouldn't mind a large university with a focused eng. or honors program. I do like to see people even if I don't talk to them.</p>

<p>I'm not exactly top school material (they are all reaches or extreme reaches for me). I just wanna see what schools I can research more before I pick my list and worry about getting admitted to them. So I'd appreciate it if you could point out some lesser schools along with top ones that fit what I want. </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Northwestern! :) Mid-sized university but with academic offerings (4000+ courses) unmatched by almost any school of the similar size; it's strong across pretty much all engineering disciplines (only weaker ones are computer and electrical engineering). For chemical, it's 12th-ranked. In fact, the strength of chemE, material science, chemistry..etc paved the way for NU to be one of the prominent research centers for the emerging nanotech. About 30-40 chemE graduate each year. There are many exciting research opportunities and quite a few young/ambitious/prolific (in terms of research publication) professors (instead of bunch of old tenured ones that are semi-retired) keeping that extremely active. Undergrads can easily get involved in research--2 undergrads just named 3M fellow because of their understanding reserach. If one is interested in getting work experience instead of research, it has one of the oldest and well-established engineering co-op programs in the country.</p>

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<p>Northwestern BTW is still pretty damn selective.
Rose hulman is somewhat of a match, but you may not like its remoteness/the midwest.
I think every engineering school will be competitive to some degree.</p>