Location/Region: Preferably Urban.
Major: Environmental Engineering/Environmental Science
GPA/Test Scores: 1540 SAT, Pretty great scores in comparison to most people in my board.
Curriculum: Hopefully interdisciplinary? Like say similar to Yale's & culture. I personally want STEM curriculum to be great and the college to have good STEM facilities in terms of research.
Size: idc tbh. Small like Caltech is fine. Upto 6000ish people otherwise in the freshman class.
Costs: Need aid. Not full ride, but something close to that. Like I can afford 15k/year
Schools You're Currently Looking At: MIT (ik i don't stand a chance but still ABSOLUTELY LOVE the culture/community as well as the academics, alr deffered EA), Caltech (not a big fan of community/culture but love academics for the most part), Harvard (very diff culture but provide decent aid, i am honestly ok with the community anyway), Harvey Mudd (seems like something interesting but not a big fan since majors are too broad), Bucknell (idk much but i liked it from the first look), Yale, Columbia, Union (from Next Genius if you know what that is), Cornell, Stanford (don't like it v much personally but my parents are forcing me to apply so), UConn (liked their Env Engineering major), Johns Hopkins (pretty decent environmental engineering curriculum, seems to have a decent culture too. I've heard kids are not happy there tho?)
For others, I am looking for colleges which have a >20% acceptance rate.
I already got yield protected from Penn (Applied for VIPER so it's kinds obvious), deferred from MIT if that helps.