Recommend me some colleges, please!

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'd really like to hear your opinions on where I should go for college. Much obliged.</p>

<p>-Medium or small university. There's just a charm to going to a school with >10,000 people.
-NCAA Division 1 Athletics. I don't want Ohio State crazy, but a mid-major or small conference school is fine.
-JOURNALISM OR ENGINEERING: I really like seeing how stuff works, and I love sports and writing, so either one is a good choice for me, major wise.
-A band. I play Sax, and I really want a school that has a band.
-Not awful at academics, but I don't want an Ivy.
-Greek life that's not Barbie/Ken and is fun.
-Existent night-life. I'm bad at socializing by myself; I need more of a structured "social" environment. I'm not asking for a hangover every morning, just SOMETHING.
-Campus can't look like total crap (I'm looking at you, Drexel.)
-Somewhat affordable. Somewhat.
-Location doesn't matter.
-Not a suitcase campus. I don't want tumbleweeds to go through the quad.</p>

<p>Really, that's all I care about. As for stats...</p>

<p>GPA: 3.3-3.5. My GPA didn't come on my latest report card. My last recorded GPA was 3.3, but I think I got around that if not higher last semester.
ACT/SAT: Haven't taken it yet. PSAT says I'll score around an 1900 on the SAT and PLAN says around 27-29.
Class Rank: Top 15%-ish.
EC: Band, Jazz Band, All-Midstate (Tennessee's is All-Mid, All-East, All-West states, then All-State) this year (and next and the next, most likely), Model UN and a part-time job (2 during the summer).</p>

<p>So, gimme whatcha got!</p>

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<p>-Not a suitcase campus. I don't want tumbleweeds to go through the quad.</p>

<p>what does that mean ^</p>

<p>and how about like amherst (sat or act needs to be higher though)</p>

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<p>Boston College maybe
Northwestern for journalism
syracuse maybe
need higher standardized test scores though...</p>

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<p>Well, Amherst seems too...white-collar to me. Boston College is the same way. Syracuse is meh.</p>

<p>To kind of get an idea of what I'm looking for, here's a list of schools I'm looking at.
University of Tennessee
University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
University of Evansville
Middle Tennessee State University (I live about 5 minutes away.)</p>

<p>Evansville is one I'm really liking since it's small, but not too small, but embraces bigger college things, like D1 athletics.</p>

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<p>penn state u. park</p>

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<p>wake forest
clemson
elon
quinnipiac
villanova
u vermont</p>

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<p>Evansville is very nice. I live in Indianapolis, and it is well respected instate, and has a pretty campus</p>

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<p>Well if you checked out Drexel, did you check out Temple? Fits most of what you're looking for, and really feels far from the 28th largest school in the country.</p>