Need opinion on two lists

College Search & Selection
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<p>Okay so i'm still working out which schools I want to apply to and right now I have a massive list of schools that i need to cut down, so i divided into two lists based on my vague interest in doing something engineering related either as a undergraduate degree or graduate degree. The first list will be schools without engineering programs and i need everyone to let me know if I have any schools in there that are not strong in science (I don't mean big programs, I just mean the strength of said programs).</p>

<p>Reach:
Amherst
Williams
Bowdoin
Wesleyan
Georgetown
Wesleyan
Davidson
Vassar</p>

<h2>Bates</h2>

<p>Match:
College of William and Mary
Colby
Colgate
St. Mary's College of MD</p>

<h2>Wake Forest</h2>

<p>Safety:
Hamilton
American</p>

<p>The second list has all of the schools on my list that are engineering, and what I need to know there is if i have any schools on there that have lacking Humanities programs AND if there are any obvious omissions of similar schools that would fit in on this list, especially in the Match/Reach area.</p>

<p>Reach:
Dartmouth
UPenn
Tufts
Swarthmore
University of Notre Dame
Northwestern
Haverford
Carnegie Mellon</p>

<h2>Johns Hopkins</h2>

<p>Match/Safety:
Villanova
Lafayette
University of Rochester
Bucknell
UMD-College Park</p>

<p>Thanks in advance, if you'd like to know more about who i am applicant-wise, you can check out my previous topic <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/971539-need-help-finding-more-target-safety-schools.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/971539-need-help-finding-more-target-safety-schools.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>If you are interested in engineering, you should add to your list some of the top public universities like Illinois Urbana, Cal Berkeley, Michigan Ann Arbor, Texas Austin, or even GA Tech (though the latter wouldn’t be strong in humanities). </p>

<p>I am also assuming you didn’t add MIT, Stanford, Caltech or Cornell because you may consider then out of reach. However, since you are considering applying to highly selective schools like UPenn or Dartmouth, I would take out one of those and replace it with one of the schools listed above (for example, Cornell, if you think MIT would be too unrealistic).</p>

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<p>I really appreciate the information on public universities, I should mention I really don’t want to go too far away from MD, my home state, so Texas and California (as much as i would enjoy Berkeley) are out, and Georgia and Illinois are on the edge of my limit. But i have relatives in Michigan, so I definitely will look into that as a serious option.</p>

<p>As mentioned above, Stanford and Caltech were omitted because of location, and I’ve actually been going back and forth on the other two, Cornell certainly falls in line with Dartmouth, and my choice of Dartmouth really just had to do with the fact that I’d visited Dartmouth. And MIT I felt might not be the right intellectual environment, I feel like they fall within the Yale/Harvard category of work till you drop (not that I’m looking for an easy curriculum, but I guess i see a place like MIT as an extreme workload).</p>

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<p>Where did you hear H and Y are work till you drop? Simply untrue.</p>

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<p>It’s not something I heard, just a feeling looking through their materials and hearing people speak about them, I’ve also heard the Harvard and Yale are not worth the process for undergraduate education, and that it’s much better to go there for Graduate work. If I’m completely wrong, let me know, I’d love to hear opinions on schools of that sort’s workload.</p>

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<p>I am not so sure you should have Hamilton listed as a “safety” on your first list. It probably belongs in the Match category.</p>

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<p>You’re wrong. The only thing hard about those schools is getting in. Recently harvard had to limit the number of As each prof can give out because they were giving them away like candy and 70% were graduating with honors. The workload is not any different than most schools and with no weeding like they have at many state schools, the pressure is reduced.</p>

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<p>Agreed, if you’re talking about Hamilton College it should be a match. I would say it has about the same selectivity as Bates which you have listed as a reach.</p>

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<p>Hamilton is most definitely not a safety.</p>

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<p>thanks, i’ll keep that in mind, a lot of these schools are recent additions to my research list and their position on the list is based on their standardized test scores (and i think i copied Hamilton’s down wrong).</p>

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<p>Notre Dame would be a match for you. It’s already strong in the humanitites, and the school is trying to attract top students to its rising engineering college. Notre Dame just finished building the Stinson-Remick Hall, which is a world class teaching and research facility:
[Stinson-Remick</a> Hall Opens - ND Today](<a href=“http://ndtoday.alumni.nd.edu/site/c.gsJJKXPJJtH/b.5728117/k.7593/StinsonRemick_Hall_Opens.htm]Stinson-Remick”>http://ndtoday.alumni.nd.edu/site/c.gsJJKXPJJtH/b.5728117/k.7593/StinsonRemick_Hall_Opens.htm)</p>

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<p>Is Colby a match for me? I’ve been trying to figure that out, it feels pretty close to Bowdoin’s selectivity.</p>

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<p>Bowdoin is more selective than Colby. If Bowdoin is an accurate and reasonable reach for you, than Colby would be a match. Of course, I don’t know your stats.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/971539-need-help-finding-more-target-safety-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/971539-need-help-finding-more-target-safety-schools.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I would move both BAtes and Hamilton into matches. If you’re male, then I’d move Vassar into the match category; acceptance rate for males is 35%!</p>