<p>What are the best schools in the northeast for applied math and computer science that are not IVYs or anything crazy? my gpa is somewhere between 87-90</p>
<p>Lots of them… the one that slips under the radar and might fit your GPA (hard to know b/c you didn’t tell us your rank) is SUNY Stony Brook.</p>
<p>err… rank?</p>
<p>this is the second time im asking so… <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/741202-need-suggestions.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/741202-need-suggestions.html</a></p>
<p>but please still answer in this thread</p>
<p>Rank refers to class rank (ie: where your GPA stands in relation to others in your graduating class)</p>
<p>oh… my school is ridiculous. the average is like 90, so i guess im slightly under the middle of the class</p>
<p>For CS - maybe Drexel, RIT or WPI</p>
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<p>The best schools in the northeast for Computer Science are MIT and Carnegie Mellon (in no particular order). They are not “Ivies” like HPY, but are fairly selective. MIT’s overall freshman acceptance rate last year was only 10.7 %. The acceptance rate for Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science (SCS) was somewhat higher (approximately 15.3 %).</p>
<p>Just as a comparison, MIT’s CS major is more engineering-oriented. In fact, CS at MIT is a concentration within the EECS (electrical engineering and computer science) department. CMU’s program on the other hand is more “hardcore” computer science. There is however a separate electrical and computer * engineering <a href=“ECE”>/i</a> degree offered by a different college within CMU that is closer to MIT’s EECS program. Admission into the ECE major is much easier than into the CS major.</p>
<p>As far as math is concerned, MIT is much stronger than CMU for overall math (both pure and applied). Some areas of applied math, including the ones that are most relevant to CS, are pretty good though at CMU, especially algorithms/discrete mathematics/combinatorics, operations research, mathematical logic, probability, and mathematical finance. Note however that pure math is almost non-existent as a research area at CMU.</p>
<p>hmm…are any of these good for cryptology?</p>
<p>I’d say yes MIT, CMU, Cornell, Chicago</p>
<p>berkeley for cs!</p>
<p>anything closer to NY? my parents are being annoying and want me to become more “independent” and yet wont let me leave NY</p>
<p>and cheaper?</p>
<p>SUNY Stony Brook has very strong math and CS departments. If you’re in-state, it’s a no-brainer to recommend.</p>
<p>Also look at Rutgers - New Brunswick in New Jersey. A good school for math and CS.</p>
<p>While MIT and CMU are both fantastic, they are big reaches for anybody.</p>
<p>These posts are NOT helpful to an applicant with a class rank UNDER the 50% point. Per that, applicant is an AVERAGE student, and SUNY Stony Brook is a big reach. I guess I need to know in what way specifically your school is “ridiculous”. Do you mean it’s a special type of school that only bright students attend? If so, disregard the below comments. If not, the below comments apply.</p>
<p>Math and Science for an AVERAGE student would not be (likely) be found in the top 50 universities or Top 30 LACs. Top 10 centers around top 1% from your school. 10-20 around top 2%. 20-30 around top 3%… 30-40 Top 5%, and so on.</p>
<p>If you happen to be a high tester on the SATs, then the applicant will wonder why you don’t perform in the classroom. Bottom line average classroom grades does not match well to top 100 schools.</p>
<p>I would look in the schools USNWR has ranked 100-200 as matches, and from 75-100 as reaches.</p>
<p>You can’t realistically expect an adcom from a top 100 school, where less than 10% of their the admitted students are under the top 30% of their graduating class, to think a bottom half ranking applicant will all of a sudden and miraculously kick it into gear to compete (in the CLASSROOM) against applicants who have historically left him/her in the dust in the classroom.</p>
<p>hey! im not that horrible. and yes… i go to a good highschool. i think its around 30-40th in the country. its called bronx science. having a 90 average is a joke compared to some other people’s grades. </p>
<p>besides, stony brook shouldnt be that hard for me to get into. binghamton might be</p>
<p>let me reword myself: my assumption is that i am not in a high rank in my class not because my average is horribly low, but because it seems like every person i know has a 90+ gpa (plus very few exceptions).</p>
<p>^Ok, well the fact that you go to Bronx Science is definitely important. That’s definitely an amazing and very, very well known school. I don’t know if MIT and Carnegie Mellon are necessarily possibilities if you’re in the bottom half of your class, but I would say SUNYs definitely are.
It’s a little hard if you have to stay in NY - maybe RPI, RIT?</p>
<p>yeah. i was thinking about rpi, but my parents say its too expensive. is it like 50-60k a year? i’ll be lucky to get a penny in scholarships and stuff</p>
<p>Closer to NY? I already said Cornell U, I believe there computer sci is Top 100, maybe even Top 5</p>
<p>If you qualify for need-based aid, the private colleges can be great choices. I’m currently attending RPI with 90% of the cost being covered by financial aid. By the time I graduate, I will have paid less than one year’s cost for all four years. Search for colleges that interest you that offer good aid and hope for the best.</p>
<p>As already stated, MIT and Carnegie are truly the best CS schools in the northeast. Other great suggestions are WPI, RIT, Cornell, U Rochester and SUNY Stony Brook. Also look into SUNY Binghamton and the rest of the SUNY campuses. Northeastern, BU, Stevens and CUNY City are good as well.</p>
<p>Good luck on your search and keep working hard at Bronx Sci. Best wishes from a Stuy alumnus :)</p>
<p>whoa. lucky. i dont think i’ll be getting much from any merit or need based scholarships from any school. my family is sort of near the upper middle class or something (i dont really know. im not a money maker or spender. i barely use $1 a week other than on traveling to school), since both have jobs. i still hope i can get a bundle from rpi, assuming they accept me</p>
<p>i wish i did better in freshmen year. i guess i wasnt ready for highschool</p>
<p>i am applying to a couple of the schools mentioned, like northeastern, bu, binghamton and stony brook. everywhere is that im applying to are arbitrary places my parents chose and refuse to change even though i dont really like the schools after visiting them</p>
<p>thanks zeronax</p>