<p>Hi guys. I've applied to one reach school, 2 matches, and a safety. I want to add a couple reaches/matches to my list.</p>
<p>My major will probably be engineering, so any top ranked engineering school would be nice. I'm also looking for a school that is known nationally, and is preferably private with a low student-teacher ratio. Lastly, a school that is near a big city (not in the middle of nowhere :P). </p>
<p>The only school I found that satisfied these conditions was Northwestern, and I've applied there but since it's so hard to get in I kinda wanted to add more reaches/matches. Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Assuming good grades and test scores, you might try one or more of the following: Wash U, Penn, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Southern Cal, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western, MIT, and Rice.</p>
<p>Ugh, yeah I forgot to add. I didn’t take chem/physics as subject tests since I never took physics due to IB scheduling. I know Carnegie Mellon and Columbia require those tests, and Penn strongly recommends it. </p>
<p>You don’t say your qualifications so it’s hard to say where you could go. But “top-ranked” engineering schools are MIT, Caltech, Olin, and Harvey Mudd. Although Olin and Mudd are well-known in industry, nobody else has heard of them. All four of them are reaches no matter what your qualifications. </p>
<p>If your GPA/test scores are a bit lower, Case Western and Rose Hulman are both well-known.</p>
<p>Mudd, Olin, and Rose Hulman only have STEM majors.</p>
<p>^ spoken like the mother of a Mudd student. Consider also schools like The Colorado School of Mines Though they are not private i think they meet all other criteria.</p>
<p>My apologies. I was in a hurry yesterday. Normally when I post something like that I say “Rose Hulman has recently always been ranked first in USNWR’s rankings for engineering schools with no doctoral program, and they often let Mudd share that spot with them”.</p>
<p>Other than that, I don’t know what I said that could be objectionable.</p>