" I can’t follow my non-engineering passions very well (I’ll have to drop classics). "
Ok so if oil and gas is out, then it probably comes down to GT or Berkeley, and how much classics means to you. I went on GTs site and couldn’t find anything on classics, unless I totally missed it. Berkeley has a world class classics program, options for three minors, the professors there went to Oxford, McGill, Harvard, Penn, Chicago, and Berkeley of course.