Chance me for CS Schools

Your basic data is good enough for anywhere. But this does not mean you will get in everywhere. With patent pending you might want to consider some smaller, innovative universities like Cal Tech, MIT, and WPI. These smaller universities understand the concept of exploring options and programs are designed to do so… Tufts is a also a great place to explore STEM options.

MIT has a special program just for options (see http://uaap.mit.edu/research-exploration/urop/options) and WPI is all about options from day one (see https://www.wpi.edu/project-based-learning/wpi-plan) . They want dialogue in place of catalog for planning your entire program. Both Tufts and WPI are very directed for interdisciplinary thinking. They are more along the lines of Harvey Mudd with a wider range of choices.

With all the directions CS can take you and ABET accreditation issues you need frequent and easy exchange with informed dialogue. Look for this and whatever else you define as important to you in your search. Don’t get lost in the forest of rankings and “chance me.” Smaller sizes help here.

MIT has a very large graduate school, but only a little over 4,600 undergraduates. As you probably know, Cal Tech, MIT, CMU, Georgia Tech and UC Berkley would be reaches for anyone in CS. U Chic, Northwestern, Columbia and UPenn are also reaches for any major. You need less reaches and more in the middle.

You can do the work, if motivated, at any of these institutions. They are all very competitive on admission, especially in CS. The easiest would be WPI and Penn State. WPI Has an average unweighted GPA of 3.89/4 across all students in the current first year class. Pen State at University park has an average GPA of 3.58/4, but it is higher for CS and may be more difficult if you are an out-of-state resident.

You can review the WPI CS faculty and their work at https://www.wpi.edu/academics/departments/computer-science/faculty-staff