Aerospace eng targets/safeties/recommendations? (getting my list together so give me anything)

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Cornell and Princeton, while fantastic schools are about as “grindy and snobby elite schools” as you can possibly find. Not that they are super grindy and snobby, but generally speaking no other school will be grindier or snobbier. So you should probably remove that requirement if you think that is fine. Also MIT is pretty grindy, but not elitist, and very collaborative.

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Caltech is similar to MIT in this way but is by far the smallest school you listed at just around 230 students per class

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Smaller undergraduate population than most liberal arts schools, so if you are avoiding super tiny schools, this would be one

Also considering A&M has the 3rd largest undergraduate enrollment of any US school, I’d say it definitely falls into super gigantic, loose guideline.

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Considering though that this is a safety for you and is good program I’d still apply here

I mean you did ask for recommendations for what to cut out so I started based on that, honestly the chance of you not getting in UT engineering is incredibly low as an in state with these stats, also UT gives a full ride for first year for valedictorians

Given that you don’t need much more than A&M, Texas, and GTech as safeties or targets, but Purdue is good too

If you want reaches that align with what you suggest Rice is definitely one, I’d recommend Duke and Vanderbilt as well but those are “out of Texas south”

CU Boulder should be a safety as well if you want

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Stanford also aligns pretty well I’d say

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@radiant kite why no rice

if you're in tx

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Purdue is good and UIUC is too

A bit closer to the middle of nowhere spectrum though

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cut princeton lowkey haha, imo just a waste of money applying tho i could see u making it so ig u can put it as a reach :>

purdue, vtech, uw madison, pennstate and some UCs could be ur saefties

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purdue is def not a safety its a target for sure for engineering/cs

even given ur stats id say

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idk

i think its a high safety or low target

for him

his stats are great

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Oh yeah