Below are some additional schools that you may want to consider. Some are in college towns while others are in big cities, some have self-contained campuses while others are intermixed with other downtown buildings, some are medium-sized while others are large, etc. Perhaps in learning more about the schools you may figure out what preferences you do have about the college experience.
As I am not familiar enough with all of the schools’ requirements with respect to high school coursework, I will not chance you for these schools. Instead, I have classified them according to their acceptance rates for the fall of 2023, per College Navigator. I suspect that the higher a school’s admissions rate, the less impact your social studies and foreign language coursework will have. But if there’s a requirement, particularly at a public school, they may not have any wiggle room to accept an otherwise terrific candidate. For those that do accept you, I suspect that most will accept you with merit aid.
Additionally, some of these schools have rolling admissions (like Pitt) and/or a very rapid turnaround (Iowa State). You might get a response within 24 hours at Iowa State if you’ve met the requirements and at Pitt they open their admissions for the fall in August, so if you put an early app in, you are likely to have a decision in hand by October. Having an acceptance in hand from a school that you’d be happy to attend is a great stress-reliever for senior year, particularly if you plan to apply to a lot of low probability schools. And if you get a rejection earlier on, then it can help you to rethink your college application list while there’s still time before most deadlines.
Without further ado, here’s the list:
Extremely Likely (80-99+%)
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Iowa State: About 25k undergrads
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U. of Arizona: About 39k undergrads
Likely (60-79%)
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Southern Methodist (TX): About 7k undergrads (61% admit rate…so close to toss-up)
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U. of Minnesota - Twin Cities: About 39k undergrads
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U. of Nebraska - Lincoln: About 19k undergrads
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U. of Texas - Dallas: About 22k undergrads
Toss-Up (40-59%)
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George Washington (D.C.): About 11k undergrads
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Rensselaer Polytechnic (MA): About 5900 undergrads
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U. of Maryland: About 30k undergrads
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U. of Pittsburgh: About 24k undergrads
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U. of Wisconsin - Madison: About 36k undergrads
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Worcester Polytechnic (MA): About 5200 undergrads
Lower Probability (20-39%)
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Case Western (OH): About 6k undergrads
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U. of Rochester: About 6800 undergrads
Low Probability (less than 20%)