<p>I like having seasons/the winter, I want to study engineering with a little business, and I want to be involved with a startup. I’m a sports fan and interested in Greek life. </p>
<p>So far I have:
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon
Northwestern
Michigan
UMass (in-state/financial safety)</p>
<p>Wisconsin
UT Austin
Texas A&M
Rice (great baseball team!) </p>
<p>The texas schools don’t have any seasons :(</p>
<p>DUKE! great sports, great engineering, great weather, great econ/public policy (no undergrad business, like Stanford), great greek life</p>
<p>Pomona and CMC–I know several kids at those schools working on startups with Harvey Mudd Comp Sci and biotech kids.</p>
<p>MIT 10 char</p>
<p>I second Duke</p>
<p>Privates: Duke, Rice, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Public: Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, UVa</p>
<p>The location and environment don’t matter all that much. There are colleges like Stanford everywhere. What makes Stanford, Stanford are the people there. According to Fiske, Stanford applicants usually apply to Yale, Princeton, Harvard, UCLA, Berkeley, and MIT, so it would seem that those would be the places to find Stanford-like people and therefore a Stanford-like atmosphere.</p>
<p>I assume you mean an entreuprenerial (hope I spelled that right) spirit? I would say most of the ivies that have already been listed. All the research heavy schools like tOSU, UIUC, add in ones like Olin. Hmmm depends you want a big or small school. Rural or urban etc.</p>
<p>Penn (10 char)</p>
<p>I wonder why Penn is always overlooked when people apply to ivys, isn’t Penn icy?</p>
<p>Rice (weather, architecture, happy/friendly student body, research opportunities, strong engineering) and Duke (weather, large campus, balance between good academics and athletics, research opportunities, Greek life)</p>
<p>vanderbilt</p>
<p>Duke…</p>
<p>Duuuukkkkkeeee</p>
<p>And lesser so Rice, Vanderbilt, and possibly Northwestern</p>
<p>Duke, UNC chapell hill, U of Virginia and Lehigh</p>
<p>It’s hard to say, given that you don’t define “atmosphere.” If it’s weather, then there are plenty of universities (not just in California) that would match Stanford, e.g. UCLA, Caltech, Berkeley. Academically, MIT and Harvard are similar. People often liken Stanford to Northwestern, Duke, and Rice as well. Penn and Cornell remind of Stanford, though for less concrete reasons. If I had to say what’s most similar to Stanford in weather, surroundings, faculty, academics, etc. it’d be a toss-up between Harvard and Berkeley.</p>
<p>“I like having seasons/the winter, I want to study engineering with a little business, and I want to be involved with a startup. I’m a sports fan and interested in Greek life.”</p>
<p>Sounds exactly like Michigan.</p>
<p>“I like having seasons/the winter…”</p>
<p>Do people read anymore before commenting?</p>