Please help me pick a good safety or two, will chance!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Half white, half Iranian
SAT: M-800, CR-800, W-720
PSAT: M-77, CR-70, W-770 (224, National Merit Semifinalist)
GPA: 4.288 weighted, school doesn't do unweighted...
Class Rank: 72/697 (Not top 10% because of soccer bringing down GPA)
Varisty Soccer
Diverse job experience(nuclear valve warehouse, CPA firm)
Computer Science Club, will compete UIL and HP Codewars
Build my own guitars and amps
Traumatic childhood experience
Can write pretty well
IB Diploma Candidate
Heavy senior course load
Some volunteer experience</p>

<p>Already applying to UT, A&M, Rice, Chicago, Stanford, Pomona, Cal-Tech</p>

<p>I was deferred from Rice ED despite being a triple legacy :(, so I would really like help thinking of a good safety or two.</p>

<p>Interested in majoring in Math, Engineering(Chem, Mech, Comp), or Computer Science</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Needless to say, I would endlessly appreciate any help offered with what is surely one of the biggest decisions of my life thus far. :D</p>

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<p>Are you interested in state schools at all? If so, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin could be solid safeties for you. Or your own state school depending on where you live.</p>

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<p>Thanks!
I live in Texas, so UT and A&M were my state schools.
I am not too in to state schools, as OOS tuition can be killer (then again, so can private), but I’ll definitely do some research into those.</p>

<p>P.S.- I just got back from a Rockets game, if that’s the “Tmac” that you’re referring to!</p>

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<p>Anyone else? Suggestions would be extremely helpful.</p>

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<p>Try University of Purdue - West Lafayette. It’s one of the top 10 engineering undergrad programs, and it has a very high acceptance rate.</p>

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<p>With respect to Purdue:</p>

<p>The acceptance rate is high, but not as much for engineering. With your stats, you can definitely get accepted though. However, even if you apply there right now, it will likely be hard to get into engineering as they have a limited number of seats for the engineering program, many of which have likely been filled from their first round of rolling decisions.</p>

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<p>Wow deferred Rice? It seems to me like you should have been accepted. Anyways, Purdue is great for engineering but the tuition is high OOS. And if you live in texas aren’t you guaranteed acceptance to a state school if you have a certain GPA? anyways GL :)</p>

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<p>Thanks for the input guys :), still more input would be appreciated!</p>

<p>@Mr.HS
Top 10% of your graduating class guarantees admission into UT, regardless of the competitiveness of your school, your course rigor, or your athletic status. So, being an athlete and IB Diploma candidate works against me…</p>

<p>I am automatically in to A&M because of my SAT scores, so I am looking at more of a strong match or two, so that I can have some options in case I am rejected from my schools. </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>DANG you won’t be needing too many safeties.
But if you really must, some schools in my home state are good safeties. I dunno if you’re from NY or not, but look at:
SUNY Buffalo
SUNY Binghamton
and SUNY Stony Brook
(publics)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute would be a good safety for you (private)</p>

<p>Also for your majors, have you considered MIT?
Good chances at all.
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<p>I would suggest NC State and Georgia Tech for true safeties. I would advise applying to Carnegie Mellon to, as you could easily get in.</p>

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<p>UMICH
U of Ill</p>