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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>