<p>-I could consider a safety or high match (stats below)
-Has around the same amount of males and females (slightly lower female percentage is acceptable, and it's okay if there are more females)
-I could afford (meaning priced perhaps under $30,000/I could get good aid/merit money for)
-Has (but does not specialize in the area of) engineering majors, preferably aerospace but mechanical is acceptable
-Is pretty decent in general?</p>
<p>Stats:
3.73uw, 4.0w, 47/502 class rank
SAT, best single-sitting: 770CR 720M 710W
SAT, composite: 770CR 780M 750W</p>
<p>ECs include: Debate, ROTC, Piano, a leadership development program (4 yrs), Student Congress, Beta Club/NHS (2 yrs).</p>
<p>Awards include: National Achievement Semi-Finalist, National Merit Commended, and a helluva lot of awards in Debate and ROTC that I'm too lazy to type up (I'm 2nd in the state in debate, though).</p>
<p>U Maryland College Park, Penn State, UNC. A lot of the other major state flagship universities would probably be good, too. A few public places are offering in-state tuition to any student with a high GPA, and you definitely qualify. I think that Ohio State and Iowa State are two of them. But seriously, you can aim pretty high with your statistics. Catholic University is good for engineering, gives aid, and is relatively cheap for a private school.</p>
<p>"UNC will be a major reach for out of state (though URM will help).</p>
<p>Take a look at UIUC (really good for aerospace and mech engineering) and they are around 31K for out of state" -DTan</p>
<p>Come on now, UNC-CH is definately tough for OOSers but its not that ridiculous either. About 20% of the student body is from OOS, so lets say that even if 10% (which is a huge exaggeration) of the 20% is from athletes, musicians, or other non-academic matriculants. Even then that is less than California schools, and UT-Austin (which you should look at as well btw), and this kid with his ridiculous SAT scores would be a shoe-in practically at UCLA or UCBerk.</p>
<p>Haha . . . 'barely' top 10% becomes bad when you talk about these schools. But anyway, I was looking for a safety, and I agree that Berkeley and UCLA, as well as prestigious OOS schools like UNC are nowhere near safeties--though I have legitimate non-academic reasons for my GPA not being as high as it could be, but that's another story entirely.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions, I was somewhat lost before. Any others?</p>
<p>Hey, and UCLA and UCB aren't schools that you should bend over backwards to come to anyways. They started raising tuition, their endowment is miniscule compared to other top state schools (I'm talking per capita...who cares about the total?), the state of California financially a mess, and the COL is ridiculously high....conclusion: don't come here. And if you do, caveat emptor.....</p>
<p>Anyways, having said that....
Michigan (not a safety per se but whatever)
Texas
Carnegie Mellon
etc etc etc</p>
<p>I didn't bash...what I'm saying is completely true. UC schools DO have a tiny endowment per capita (ex. UVa has $166k/person, UCB has a mere quarter of that per person. I know you're going to argue that UCB is larger and that's why, well oh well, tough luck, because I don't take size into account when assessing endowment per capita), the Ah-nuld DOESN'T know how to manage state finances, tuition IS going up, and the cost of living in Cali IS out of control.</p>
<p>UCSB was just named top Graduate Engineering program in the country by Princeton Review. Don't know how much that filters down to undergrad, but it might be a school to consider...</p>
<p>There are many really good schools which have merit scholarships that you could apply to now and which offer full tuition. Your high SAT scores would make you competitive for them. Some also offer merit money with your acceptance. If you post what part of the countty you are interested in, size of school, area of academic study, I will post back a list of schools that would be good choices for you</p>