<p>Hi. Can anyone recommend to me good and reputed colleges for a computer science major as myself? What else can I do to improve my chances besides extra-circulars? </p>
<p>Academic Performance
GPA on 4 scale: 3.7-3.8 (Hovering between the two) unweighted
GPA on 100 scale: 98.01 unweighted.</p>
<p>Testing
SAT Math: 710 (Will retake and expect to get at least 740)
SAT Critical Reading: 700 (Will retake and expect to get at least 740)
SAT Writing: 770
SAT Physics: Not received yet
SAT Math II: Not taken yet
AP World History: 5
AP Psychology: Not received yet (4 or 5 expected)
AP US History: Not received yet
AP English Language: Not received yet
AP English Literature: Class not taken yet
AP BC Calculus: Class not taken yet
AP US Government: Class not taken yet
AP Biology: Class not taken yet
Note: By including the names of classes not taken yet, I intend only to show I plan to have intensive coursework on record.</p>
<p>Extra-Curriculars
Member of my schools fencing team.
Active member of Key Club for 3 years.
Member of NY's ARISTA National Honor Society
I'll try to do more stuff this summer and next year.</p>
<p>Berkeley L&S (not engineering/EECS) is an option, though you would have to pay out-of-state tuition. UIUC is also strong for CS, though it might not necessarily have the cachet of other universities. University of Michigan is an option, but you’re also out-of-state. You have OK shots at Cornell and Penn.</p>
<p>You need to state more criteria for people to give you more specific advice. CS is taught at a lot of schools, though some are more well-known for their CS program than others. Do you care about location, size, other majors/minors, financial aid, social life, male/female ratio, sports etc.?</p>
<p>Stony Brook is an obvious choice at in-state cost.</p>
<p>Minnesota, NCSU (try also for the full ride Park scholarship), Cal Poly SLO, Virginia Tech, and maybe UMass Amherst are lower cost out of state schools worth considering.</p>
<p>UNC Chapel Hill and Virginia are said to be more generous with need-based aid to OOS students than most public universities.</p>
<p>Texas A&M waives the OOS additional tuition for many of its merit scholarships.</p>
<p>Criteria for college
Size: Medium to large
Location: East or West Coast in an urban area or near one
Male/Female Ratio: At least 1/3 female population
Demographic: At least 10% Asian population preferred
Cost: Please neglect costs concerns. I’ll take that into account when I choose which colleges to apply to.</p>
<p>For University of Washington, you can apply directly to the CS major for freshman admissions. However, if you get admitted to the school but not the CS major as a freshman, be aware that competition to declare the major later is extremely fierce – you need to apply with an extremely high college GPA to declare the major.</p>
<p>Unlike Berkeley (which offers CS in both the College of Letters and Science and the more selective College of Engineering), UCLA only offers it in the College of Engineering, which may be more selective than the school as a whole.</p>
<p>Cost concerns should not be ignored – admission without enough financial aid and scholarships to make the school affordable is effectively the same as rejection.</p>
<p>According to US News, U of Washington has tuition of $28,000 for OOS students and around $10,000 for room and board bringing the total to about $38,000 which is quite fine for me.</p>
<p>For both UC Berkeley and UCLA, tuition and room and board work out to around $47,000 which is much more costly but possible if I get some financial aid. </p>
<p>Does anyone have any recommendations for renowned computer science colleges in eastern US perhaps on the level of UC Berkeley or UCLA which I know are quite renowned for computer science majors?</p>
<p>UMD – honors college LLC, strong CS, close to DC
Pitt – urban location, scholarships
Northeastern – internship programs and merit scholarships</p>
<p>You can look at the USNWR cs rankings, but they are slanted toward strong graduate programs.
You should also think about affordability, job placement, plans for graduate school, alternative programs if you switch from CS to another major.</p>
<p>Anyone can tell you what the top programs are in the country. Getting in and paying are another issue.</p>
<p>sounds like you have a lot more rules then you have posted. if you are not looking at Case Western, Carnegie Mellon University (both a little further west) top tech schools that fit your posted criteria , what else are you looking for?
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute like I mentioned before is not exactly a school to throw stones at either!</p>
<p>Cost constraints
As I’m. Either going to dorm or rent a apartment, at least $11,000 will be put aside for room and board. As for tuition, l can go up to around $40,000 without scholarships or financial aid though it would be great if it could go lower. </p>
<p>Just how good are UMass Amherst and Rutgers compared to UCLA, UW, UIUC for example. I’ve heard of them but not their computer science programs. As for Stony Brook, the area is not for me. The reason I prefer more renowned colleges is because they tend to have ties with big tech companies who often recruit from these colleges such as some of the UCs. </p>