Reverse chance me/recommend schools for a junior!

Chance Me / Match Me
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This list is categorized based on my very fallible sense of what might be your chances of acceptance. All the colleges here are rated either 4.5 or 5* on the Campus Pride index. Where possible I tried to list the approximate number of undergrads (from College Board), but if it wasn’t listed I used the total number of students from Campus Pride. The schools listed below are all ABET accredited for electrical engineering. There are more options, but I thought I’d start with this to get a better sense of budget, size preferences, and other factors that you may find become important as the search goes on. In case it’s not obvious, I focused on likelier options since you seem to have several options already in the most selective categories.

Guaranteed

Extremely Likely (90+%)

  • U. of Vermont, 5* on Campus Pride, about 10k undergrads
  • Hofstra (NY), 5* on Campus Pride, about 9-10k students
  • Kansas State, 5* on Campus Pride, about 16k undergrads
  • U. of New Hampshire, 4.5* on Campus Pride, about 11k undergrads
  • Northern Illinois, 5* on Campus Pride, about 12k undergrads
  • U. of Louisville, 5* on Campus Pride, about 14k undergrads

Likely (60-90%)

  • Rutgers – New Brunswick (NJ), 5* on Campus Pride, about 35k undergrads
  • U. of Massachusetts – Amherst, 5* on Campus Pride, about 28k students
  • U. of Colorado – Boulder, 5* on Campus Pride, about 30k undergrads
  • SUNY New Paltz (NY), 4.5* on Campus Pride about 7k students
  • U. of Pittsburgh, 5* on Campus Pride, about 25k students

Toss-Up (40-60%)

  • Union (NY), 4.5* on Campus Pride, about 2k students
  • U. of Maryland, 5* on Campus Pride, about 30k undergrads
  • U. of Wisconsin – Madison, 4.5* on Campus Pride, about 43k students
  • Ohio State, 5* on Campus Pride, abut 46k undergrads

Possible (15-40%)

  • Lehigh (PA ), 5* on Campus Pride
  • U. of Rochester (NY), 4.5* on Campus Pride
  • U. of Virginia, 4.5* on Campus Pride, about 17k undergrads
  • Case Western Reserve (OH), 4.5* on Campus Pride, about 5k undergrads

Less Likely (15% or less)

  • Tufts (MA), 5* on Campus Pride, about 6k undergrads
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