<p>I grew up in St. Louis and I lived much of my adult life in Massachusetts. About the only thing people in both of those places agree on is that Washington Univ. is NOT on the east coast! Ditto Northwestern.</p>
<p>More to the point: There is going to be huge variation in the type of computer science offered at the schools on this list. Some depts will offer a good deal of research opportunities for cs students, some will not. Some cs depts are housed in engineering schools, some are not; it makes a difference. Also, if you are going to go as far west as St. Louis, you might as well include Vanderbilt Univ. in Nashville. My son is a computer science major there, in the school of engineering.</p>
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<p>Haha, I know. Thanks for your correction. :o What I meant was schools that we can drive to from a suburban NYC town. I used Mapquest as my source and tried to limit the driving to about 10 hours drive. Vanderbilt is a great school and the driving is more than 14 1/2 hour. Washington U is 16 hour drive and Northwestern is 13 1/2 hours. If I have included Washington University, I should included Washington University as well. Thanks for the suggestion</p>
<p>My list includes many different kinds of CS schools. Since I don't know his SAT scores and what types of colleges kids were accepted to from his school with his GPA, I try to make it as inclusive as possible. I have about 50 schools in my list now. Hope that this will be down to 15 by next May. :p</p>