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Allow yourself to showcase your strengths. Cover a wide variety of techniques and styles. Each selection should be vastly different from the previous. I recommend a WTC Prelude and Fugue (whichever speaks to you best, listen through as many as you can) and a more heroic/transitional Beethoven sonata such as Op. 13, Op. 31, Op. 26 or even Op. 53 or 57 if you can handle it. The last selection is more open ended. I would go with something bigger than an etude if you're going the Chopin route. A Scherzo or Ballade is a good option. Outside of Chopin you could try some Rachmaninoff, or maybe even Ravel. I believe in variety for a college audition, so I can't give you anything more specific than this.

Op. 13 is hard enough for this. I got into my school this year using it. Just keep in mind that it's quite wild in the first movement and requires control. The second and third movements are lighter, I doubt they'd present a problem. There's very particular articulation in the third movement that I really recommend following, many pianists don't. It probably is somewhat "overplayed", but if you're passionate about it then play it. I think there are many Beethoven sonatas that are more interesting, even if Op. 13 is fantastic. The beauty of Beethoven...