<p>I am a current high school junior with a 34 ACT and 2250 SAT. I am looking for selective engineering schools in the city. My current list includes:</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon (Pittsburgh)
Cooper Union (NYC)
Johns Hopkins (Baltimore)
UC Berkeley (Berkeley/San Francisco)
UCLA/USC (Los Angeles)</p>
<p>CMU's the best, how about MIT?</p>
<p>Northwestern (Chicago)
Columbia (NYC)
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<p>Olin (just outside of Boston)</p>
<p>Rice (Houston)</p>
<p>i second Rice</p>
<p>NU is in Evanston, outside of Chicago. Penn and Columbia have well regarded engineering schools and are in Philly and NYC respectively. Pitt is also a fairly strong school where a 34 ACT might have some pull for scholarships.</p>
<p>Evanston is not "outside" of Chicago really.</p>
<p>^Technically it's "outside" of Chicago but it's easier to go from Evanston to many major points of interest of Chicago than from some parts of Chicago. For all intents and purposes, it's inside it.</p>
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CMU's the best, how about MIT?
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It depends on your definition of city...
Say Los Angeles, Baltimore, Houston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, etc... to anyone and they go "hey! I know where that is"
Most people couldn't name the city MIT was in, and if you told them the city the wouldn't know the university in the city...
So when he or she says 'city' I think he or she means something that you see on the weather channel when they show you the continental US.
That being said...
Rice, CMU, UCLA, UCB, Columbia, UPenn, .... the list goes on...
I don't think anyone has named UT Austin or UM Ann Arbor (if you consider Ann Arbor a suburb of Detroit)... UT isn't that selective though... especially if you're in Texas...</p>
<p>What engineering discipline are you interested?</p>
<p>MIT
Rice
Johns Hopkins
Carnegie Mellon
USC
Columbia</p>
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UT isn't that selective though... especially if you're in Texas...
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<p>If your not in the top10% in texas, it is very selective.</p>
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Most people couldn't name the city MIT was in, and if you told them the city the wouldn't know the university in the city...
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But they know Boston, and both Harvard and MIT are just a T ride away from downtown Boston. They may be outside the city limits, but they're "in Boston" for all intents and purposes. (Oh, and many people have heard of Cambridge.)</p>
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<p>I don't think that's what the OP had in mind though. It seems that s/he was was looking for large cities, not just well known cities.</p>
<p>Interesting, ken. You're the first person I've read on these boards or that I know who doesn't think that Boston is a large city, and as noted, Cambridge is adjacent to Boston. And I've heard somewhere that Boston's not a bad college town. (Yes, that's sarcasm.)</p>
<p>oops, selective reading I guess. Yes, I do see now that you did say that it's right outside of Boston. my bad.</p>
<p>Case Western in Cleveland</p>
<p>MIT, Harvard, Columbia, Penn, and Northwestern are all urban universities with engineering schools ranging from ultra-selective to quite selective.</p>
<p>northwestern is just the same as harvard, johns hopkins, berkeley, and MIT in that respect...they may not be right in the middle of that city, but public transportation can get you there easily. There are very few schools fitting your criteria that are physically in the middle of a huge city, and I think they have been pretty well covered. what discipline to you want to go into? I know that the University of Minnesota (although not that highly regarded outside of my home state) has one of the top chemE programs in the country. With those stats you could get into honors, and have an ultra exclusive opportunity to do any research you wanted, which you probably wouldnt be able to do a more "well known" selective university. The U of Minn is just right across the river from dtown minneapolis and st. paul (two dtowns in one :) honors there is an amazing opportunity and I just barely turned it down for northwestern bme...</p>
<p>but I for sure second UMich (it has only been mentioned once so I thought I would again), also stanford (a little further from a large city), caltech...</p>