Any colleges I should be looking at? Computer science (?)

College Search & Selection
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<p>"Stats" here: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1063328555-post809.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1063328555-post809.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I'm a tad unsure of what colleges I should be applying to for normal decision, I'm interested in engineering/computer science as evidenced by my course selections. I've applied EA to U of M and I was just wondering if there were any other schools I should apply to just based on their CS programs? </p>

<p>Ideally, I'd wanted one of the big names (MIT, Caltech) but with the limitations of my GPA... What schools would you recommend as being a tad easier to get into or would fit me well? I'm sorry I'm posting this here but I'm really busy as hell senior year and didn't really have a chance to sit down with my counselor to talk all this out. Most of the other things I guess would be secondary, ie location, tuition, etc.</p>

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<p>Ga Tech is fifth best overall undergraduate engineering and CS is ranked eighth by USNews. We have wonderful volunteer Co-op . Look at your stats. You should definitely get in.</p>

<p>Another schools I would considered, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley. For CS only, Brown.</p>

<p>Also, you probably get in Michigan as well. So you should be fine.</p>

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<p>Maryland/college park and Texas are also ranked high in CS.</p>

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<p>Judging from your stats, I believe you should be able to get into Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Berkeley, GATech, or Michigan, all of which would be excellent choices for engineering/CS. MIT and Caltech are probably reaches though.</p>

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<p>Do you need FA? Can you afford full freight at a school in another state? You’ve already applied to one of the top tech schools in the country.</p>

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<p>Georgia Tech doesn’t give good aid to OOS students.</p>

<p>If you need aid (and your family’s income would qualify for good aid), then you need to apply to those kinds of schools, plus some financial safeties.</p>

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<p>If the OP is not in the top 10% of his/her graduating class, I think s/he has to bid Berkeley goodbye no matter how high his/her SAT scores are. Berkeley accepts students who were in the top 10% of his/her high school batch.</p>

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<p>Ah thanks, those are actually some of colleges I’ve already begun my applications for. </p>

<p>GA Tech is new though.</p>

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<p>You should also consider Rice University – a stellar CS program in a personal environment with great research opportunities.</p>

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<p>RML - I wouldn’t say that’s true about Berkeley and rank. My school has 100 students per grade. We usually have 20-something acceptances to Berkeley each year…so obviously, they are willing to go outside the top 10%.</p>

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<p>DEFINITELY Carnegie Mellon</p>

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<p>CaliforniaDancer,</p>

<p>basing on Berkeley stats, I guess your high school was an exemption.</p>

<p>And, I agree that the OP should look into Rice too, as well as Northwestern, Chicago, CMU, GTech and Michigan.</p>

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<p>You numbers are quite good. So in addition to U Michigan, OP should look into
Safeties:
Case Western and Stony Brook
Matches:
Rochester, Brandeis, Rice (high match?), GTech, and Wisconsin.
reaches:
CMU, Cornell, John Hopkins, and Brown</p>

<p>Hope this will help. :)</p>