<p>Case Western, RPI, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, WPI (not quite top 50), Carnegie Mellon, Olin, Cooper Union, Cornell, Yale and Princeton.</p>
<p>That should keep you busy!</p>
<p>Remember, that the top 50 is easy, it’s the safeties you really like that are more difficult to nail down.</p>
<p>My oldest, who is not much of a traveler, did not visit very many schools ahead of time. (Basically four as college visits and he’d seen several small LACs as part of CTY and had taken classes at Columbia so he knew that campus as well.) He put his foot down and said he only cared about top computer science departments. When he ended up getting into four colleges he hadn’t visited, we had a pretty whirlwind April, but he was much more focused on what he wanted. It came down to deciding between one which he didn’t visit till he’d accepted and one which he had already seen. He felt it was much easier to write those “Why ___ College” essays and figure out how to tailor the application to the college if he’d seen the campus. </p>
<p>My younger son (not an engineering type) wanted to see campuses. We saw some before applying and some after being accepted.</p>