<p>Hey there, my question concerns my options OOS for college. I live in CA and am definitley applying to the UCs, but I was wondering if there are other good possibilities. I have a 3.75 UC gpa and 1950 SAT and a 710 bio 660 US SAT IIs. I am interested in a school with a pretty legitamite sports program because the UCs I can get into do not. So any suggestions?Thanks</p>
<p>If you want to go north, Oregon/Oregon State for sports. Places like BYU are great in both aspects (academics and sports,especially if your LDS). How far would you be willing to travel?</p>
<p>Yeah, I think the big question is how far are you willing to travel...a number of schools in the Big 12 Conference (other than UT-Austin) have pretty significant scholarships for OOS students, and most of the schools are in decently sized cities - Norman OK (OU) is about 100k, but essentially a suburb of Oklahoma City (1.2 Mill), Lincoln NE is about 250k, Lawrence KS is about 90k, but only 30 minutes from Kansas City, Columbia MO. Stillwater OK, Ames IA and Manhattan KS are smaller at only about 50k, but are unique college towns. </p>
<p>Obviously all these schools have big time college sports, certainly with football (4 Big 12 teams are in the top 10 of the BCS standings including Texas at #1) and men's basketball (Kansas is your 2008 NCAA National Champions) topping the list, but baseball (Omaha NE is the home to the men's College World Series every year) and women's volleyball are also pretty popular too (Nebraska won the NCAA title in 2006 in front of record crowds for the Final Four in Omaha). </p>
<p>Academically, most of the schools are in the USNWR Top 100, so they're not slouching there (UT-Austin #47, Texas A&M #64, Baylor #76, Colorado #77, Iowa State, Kansas and Nebraska all tied at #89, and Missouri-Columbia coming in at #96, Oklahoma is #108, and Kansas State at #130).</p>
<p>Again, going to depend on how far you want to travel.</p>
<p>Ya I'm basically willing to travel anywhere. I considered schools like Oregon but felt like they were not on my academic level. I mean I'm not trying to be arrogant but while I want to go to a good sized school with sports I also want to be academically challenged. I really appreciate the thoughts do far.</p>
<p>Big Ten schools are good academically and athletically, but I guess they're too big for you?</p>
<p>No not at all I would actually preder bigger schools. I am Also considering entering the Greek system. The thing is I am a bit apprehensive about going to school in the south as I would at a big 12. I have lived my whole life in California and the culture there seems completly different. Perhaps this change would be good, but I dont know how I would handle it. I have actually considered some big ten schools and they seem very nice. I looked at Michigan though I don't know I would get in there and it's rather expensive. What are some other upper level academic big ten schools I should look at?</p>
<p>Look at Indiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama (great OOS scholarships for SC and AL).</p>
<p>Ya Indiana looked interesting... IDK much about the others</p>
<p>-->What are some other upper level academic big ten schools I should look at?
Wisconsin-Madison
Minnesota (very low priced oos)
Ohio State
Michigan State (very good for some majors and the residential colleges)
Northwestern (Might be a reach, but northwestern is good at football all the sudden)
Those are all big ten</p>
<p>You could also look at Virginia Tech, they have very strong science/engineering programs and are a big football school, not big ten</p>
<p>Penn State?</p>
<p>Wisconsin look interesting... any of those have good business schools... Thats the area I believe I would like to major in.</p>
<p>Penn State -- football... partying... good academic public school</p>
<p>Arizona and Arizona State. Good merit aid oos and good honors programs. check it out. sports are good too, pac10.</p>
<p>^^^^^ I have considered Arizona, however I didn't get good grades to go to somewhere like ASU. (No Offense)</p>
<p>Texas, Washington and any of the Big Ten schools seem to fit exactly what you're looking for.</p>
<p>BTW, academically and culturally, Texas is much more similar to a Big Ten school than it is to the rest of the Big 12.</p>
<p>UPitt is a very solid school.</p>
<p>Arizona State has one of the best honors colleges in the country. Could check it out. Great grad school/professional school placement, lots of fellowship winners. It really wasn't such a strange recommendation. They draw tons of national merit kids.</p>
<p>University of Michigan
Penn State
Indiana
Rutgers
University of Illinois -urbana Champaign</p>
<p>Hmm well thanks to everyone that has replied it honestly does help a lot. At this point I think I will look into some Big 10 schools with solid business programs and go from there. I will probably omit Michigan though because I missed ED or w/e they have there plus its as expensive as a private for OOS students.</p>
<p>Sorry to double post, but couldn't find an edit button. I have been looking at university of wisconsin madison, and it looks really good. They have sports, greek, good academics, big school, and snow. Can anyone comment on their business programs and how campus life is. It seems like a good fit. Thanks!</p>