<p>Don’t look at UT Dallas, A&M, and SMU.
You’re better than that if you get 2100+ on the SAT, and you would be wasting your time at any of those schools.</p>
<p>Your situation is similar to what mine was (2200 SAT, white suburban male from near Dallas at a public school with an athletic background).
I’m going to Middlebury College this year (top 5 USNWR LACs), and I think it would be a great fit for you.</p>
<p>Lacrosse, and sports in general, are really big there, for one. Something like 40% of the students play a sport. The culture is really taylor-made for suburban white kids from cities, as opposed to schools like UT Dallas and A&M.
As one of the best schools in the country (right behind schools like HYPSM), they have a great, great reputation in the Northeast, as well as one of the most dedicated alumni bases in the country (#1/2 in alumni donations per capita I think?). Furthermore, the biggest program is the Economics program, and one of the most famous programs is their English program. Their economics program regularly puts kids on Wall Street (stats I saw one year had 20/90 kids from Econ on Wall Street, not counting those who went on to B/L school and worked there later), and the school in general puts many, many students at top business/law schools. </p>
<p>The curriculum is somewhat open, which should make studying more than one thing VERY DOABLE.
In fact, there is an INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND ECONOMICS dual major program, tailored specifically to combining Polisci/Econ and developing foreign language skills (They have THE TOP foreign language department in the country).</p>
<p>Admissions are very competitive (15% acceptance rate), but I had stats similar to yours and I got in. Plus you will get an admissions boost just because you’re from Texas. Best of all, there is no common app supplement, meaning that you don’t have to do anything extra to apply there.</p>