Where should I go to college? 10 points! (I might give some thumbs up's as well)?

Unless you are in the top 5 in your class (not top 5%, top 5 in a class of at least 100) you are in desperate need of some more safety type options. You really could end up with nowhere to go.

Schools to look at:

Rensselaer Poly Tech

Georgia Tech

Virginia Tech

Harvey Mudd College (it has no graduate school, but a great rep for the hard sciences and I'm really not sure why a grad program is a requirement)

Carnegie Mellon

Purdue

Texas A&M

UMD

Rice

University of Rochester

Case Western Reserve

University of Pittsburgh

U Mass Amherst

BU

Northeastern

Auburn

Tufts

Syracuse

Clemson

What you should aim for is something like this:

3 reach schools (on your list MIT, Princeton, Yale, Brown and Stanford)

3 expected to get in school (ie their average unweighted GPA is a 3.6 or 3.8 and your GPA is a 3.7, their average SATs are 2100 and you got a 2050)

3 safeties ( ie their average GPA is a 3.4 and you have a 3.8)

Carnegie Mellon U is a very good private school in Pittsburgh with a highly ranked engineering program.

I would apply to a few more public Universities though cause these schools are going to be very hard to get in to. A lot of Big 10 schools also have good engineering programs.

University of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Purdue, and Penn State actually have better graduate chemical engineering programs than Northwestern according to U.S. News and World Report. I cant find anything about the undergraduate specialty though.

Don't feel that you should have to get your bachelors and masters/phd at the same school either. The majority of people probably go somewhere else.

Cornell, Stanford, UCB, Cal Tech, and MIT all have great engineering programs and top reputations but apply to just 2 state schools in your state because even if you have the top grades, you will not be guaranteed a spot on any of the schools you listed.

Best of luck!

Definitely MIT; it's a great school for engineering and it's famous nationally and also known worldwide. I have noticed that many new creative and useful inventions were made by MIT students. MIT is one of the toughest schools you can get into because the other students represent the best students worldwide.

I'm shocked. Where is Texas A&M University - College Station? Texas A&M is like one of the top engineering schools in the university. You need to check it out.

How about Rice, Carnegie Mellon, or Rensellaer

Columbia has a good engineering school

What is your GPA? What are your test scores? What do you mean by 'research project'? Most of the schools on your list are long shots for anyone.

honestly id say go for Berekley, caltech, duke, john Hopkins, and northwestern.