College Search Help

College Search & Selection
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I am interested in computer engineering and computer science (dont really know which to choose yet). What colleges will make a good college list?

Background: ACT 33, 3.97 UW GPA, 10 AP by the end of senior year, decent EC

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Basics:
What part of the country do you live in?
What part of the country would you like to live in?
How much can you pay?
What are your stats/ECs other than an ACT score.

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My rough college list for now:
Reach: Georgia Tech, UC Berkeley
Match: UIUC, UT Austin, UW
Safety: Idk

Any suggestions?

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@SouthernHope
I live in Washington State now but I don’t mind moving.
I don’t really care which part of country the school is at.
I will not be qualified for finantial aids probably and I can probably pay for less than 40k
Stats:

  • APs: Calc AB, Calc BC, Stats, Lang, Literature, European History, Comp Sci, Music Theory, Chem, Physics A, C
  • GPA UW: 3.98
  • 2 Years Intern in Environmental Science, over 300 hours volunteer in teaching science, teaching piano for 2 years, grade 9 in both violin and piano, a couple medals in comp sci competitions
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UT Austin isn’t a match for out of state in CS or engineering, low reach maybe.

I would consider Purdue for another match/low reach

RPI (they give great merit money that would bring them down to your budget), RIT, Pitt - match

Clarkson - safety

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every single one of the OOS public schools on your list will cost more than $40K+ a year

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@kalons If I raise my budget to 50K (lets say if I do part time jobs or interns), will my choices increase greatly? And what would you recommend as a target school within that range? Thanks in advance.

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UCB is around $65K/year with little to no FA and consider it a Reach.

Run the net price calculator for each school for an estimate of costs.

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Purdue and U of Maryland (College Park) have COAs in the low 40s for out of state students. UMD has a great program too.

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All in (even spending money) Ga Tech is about $48,500 OOS so that might work. Can you talk a bit more about your environmental science internship? You have the stats to become competitive but will need some oomph too (Tech is under 20% admit rate).

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@SouthernHope The intern is in a local science center to do stewardship, habitat restoration, and stream monitoring. The interns also have to lead activities to teach visitors about watershed.

I thought that might be a good EC because it is related to engineering (although not CSE) and it also involves leadership?