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<p>Given the OP’s uncertain cost constraints, the student cannot be too picky when finding safeties which are for sure affordable and have ABET-accredited engineering degree programs.</p>
<p>It is also interesting that people on these forums will often recommend that Asian applicants apply to predominantly white LACs with few Asian students, but that suggesting that a (possibly) non-black student apply to HB schools that otherwise fit the student’s constraints (like cost and major) is more likely to get a negative reaction.</p>
<p>On-time graduation has a lot more to do with the student than the school.</p>