<p>UNC Ch can only admit 18% students outside of NC, including all athletes, internationals, and students from the 49 other states. So… your odds are too low to just throw that one in.
Apply to Pitt and Penn State as soon as the app goes live. Shreyer only admit 10% applicants and relies on essays, not test scores, so polish those essays if you want to get into Shreyer.
Check out Dickinson, Muhlenberg (matches), Haverford (another reach), Tulane (perhaps a match?)</p>
<p>Good call about UNC. I think I’ll remove it from the list. Any thoughts on William and Mary? Or john carrol? </p>
<p>Boston University could be match school. Not looking at your financial situation you can easily look at Bucknell, Franklin & Marshall as well as University of Delaware-Honors, University of Maryland.</p>
<p>Finances shouldn’t be an issue. My dad always says he will pay for anything because the best thing to buy a child is an education. Boston U, bucknell, and Maryland all sound pretty appealing </p>
<p>ND75: run net price calculators on a variety of schools - ND, Pitt, Penn State, Dickinson, BU, Bucknell, for instance. Bring the results of each to your dad. They may well shock him (they shock almost all parents). Many parents don’t realize how much college costs these days. In addition, Pennsylvania is one of the worst off because in-state tuition at public universities is high and state aid lousy, a deadly combination (for many students it’s actually cheaper to attend a SUNY or to attend private schools).
BTW: no reason to apply to Maryland since it’s similar to Penn State except three times more expensive.</p>
<p>Hmm, I think your situation would be a great model example for the Urban Dictionary definition of College Confidential.</p>
<p>@kjfdlhs that’s actually flattering even if it wasn’t intended that way. On the contrary I do think I have a goo</p>
<p>A good application^^</p>
<p>But I want to make sure I’m not being delusional with my list</p>
<p>@myos1634 the finance thing is a good idea. My parents are paying for my older siblings college too so maybe that’ll give a financial aid boost even tho I don’t think I’ll qualify anyway. </p>
<p>Good info on Maryland, I would rather pay less and go to pitt or penn state if Maryland is so similar</p>
<p>Your SAT scores, esp. CR, are too low for any of these to be reasonable reaches:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
CalTech
Columbia
Penn (from PA)
Cornell
Duke
Notre Dame
Virginia
North Carolina
Chicago</p>
<p>No harm to apply to a few reaches, but you need to build your list from the bottom up, starting with a safety that you can love. It doesn’t make any sense to apply to 14 super reaches. Concentrate your effort at finding a range of safety, match, and realistic reaches. </p>
<p>Some of the suggestions that others having given in this thread don’t offer engineering, which is problem given that you plan to study engineering.</p>
<p>Pitt and Penn State should be on your list. How about Purdue, Case Western, Northeastern, RPI? Alabama as a financial safety. Drexel as a safety (you should be able to get a free application waiver). Carnegie Mellon as a reach. Bucknell and Lafayette are LACs that offer engineering. Would you rather attend a large or small school? Urban or rural? </p>
<p>Agree with the above post, you need to build from the bottom up. I think you need to focus less on name and do some nose to the grindstone research on the schools suggested rather than picking based on names and prior knowledge. It seems like you are still picking that way based on your second revised list.</p>
<p>WPI, Drexel, RPI and Northeastern would all be match/safety schools that are strong in engineering and would give you a great education with respect in the field.</p>
<p>As far as size goes. I think I could deal with anything and like it. I love the michigan large school style but also like schools like CMU that seem smaller. Urban vs rural doesn’t matter as long as I can be active. So urban if in like NYC (eg nyu) would work or rural like Notre dame but ND has football so there’s still something to do. I’m incredibly outgoing so I really would want to be able to go to college sporting events or tmusicals or even both!</p>
<p>I think super small like Liberal Arts would not suit me</p>
<p>Be aware that liberal arts schools go from very small (1,000-2,000) to small (2,000-3,500) to medimum (3,500-6,000). The largest LACs tend to be public, like William&Mary, Truman State, Geneseo, etc. Some are located in the middle of/right by a city, like Macalester, Pitzer, URichmond, Goucher, Haverford, Rhodes.</p>
<p>I really like the idea of William and Mary, But is there anything to do there? It’s seems in the middle of no where</p>
<p>Pitt, Penn State, Notre Dame, CMU, Michigan all seem like good choices to have on your list. Plus pick a few more matches and reaches. </p>
<p>Are Villanova and Boston College good matches?</p>
<p>Yes, Villanova and BC seem like admissions matches. But does BC even offer engineering? </p>
<p>No idea but if that’s the best school I can get into I would go there for business</p>
<p>I’m not 100% sold on engineering</p>