Where should I be looking?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hello. I am junior in high school and I was just looking for some suggestions on what schools to look at. My scores are:</p>

<p>215 PSAT (69 CR 68 M 78 W)
Plan to take SAT in January
AP US History: 5
US History SAT II: 800
Math Level 2 SAT II: 720 :( plan to retake
GPA: 3.98+ UW 4.3 W
This year's APs: Chem, Calc AB, MacroEcon, Latin Vergil</p>

<p>Involved in Quiz Bowl, Science Olympiad, various Bands and Orchestras, Latin club, helping with middle school Spelling team and Science Olympiad, NHS.</p>

<p>I live in MI and will likely be a NMSF based on my PSAT score. As of now I am planning on majoring in Chemical Engineering. Thanks!</p>

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<p>Well, Michigan is a fantastic school. You are not going to do that much better for Chemical Engineering.</p>

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<p>As a phenomenal safety school that can give a full ride plus spending money would be University of Delaware. It ranks #10 in the nation for Chemical Engineering.</p>

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<p>Michigan is the easy, logical choice. You could also shoot for a few private national universities ranked by USNWR in the top 20 or so (such as Cornell, Duke, or JHU). But few private universities, and virtually no public OOS universties, are worth a big price premium over Michigan for an engineering student (unless money is no object and you are choosing based on more than academics).</p>

<p>If you want to consider a small liberal arts college, the two best that offer engineering are Swarthmore and Harvey Mudd, but both are extremely selective.</p>

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<p>I’d probably just go to U of Michigan in your case.</p>

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<p>If you are looking for a smaller school, I would choose Rice, CalTech or HarveyMudd. They each have a very different feel. Michigan is a great choice, though, especially financially.</p>

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<p>*As a phenomenal safety school that can give a full ride plus spending money would be University of Delaware. *</p>

<p>Does UDel give full rides to NMFs?</p>

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<p>Not to NMFs specifically. It’s called Eugene S DuPont Scholarship.</p>

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<p>UMich is certainly a great option. However, if you are certain that you want to study chemical engineering, then the University of Minnesota would also be a good option for you. It has one of the very top ChE programs and with the Midwest Student Exchange it would only cost you about $2000/yr more than UMich.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the suggestions. Money will be an issue, I’m not quite sure what my parent’s EFC is but when we visited Northwestern she said it would be about $30k.</p>

<p>Would it be worth going to UMich vs full ride at UMinnesota vs highly ranked private?</p>

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<p>How would you get a free-ride at UMinn?</p>