<p>I would suggest you post this in the Parents Forum, College Search or College Admissions section of the CC site. Then you’ll get input from a wider range of people.</p>
<p>It’s hard to meet all your criteria, but here are some ideas: Baylor, Bucknell (not west, but rural and Patriot League/great engineering), Marquette, U Michigan, Notre Dame, SMU, Texas A&M, U Texas, U Wisconsin. Making the football team would be a problem at most of these, as it would be at Berkeley or Northwestern.</p>