<p>S wants to study CS. Cornell and GA Tech seem to be within his reach. Which other schools are as good for CS? And is GA Tech really a good one? It is not Computer Engineering but CS. UC Berkeley would be great but I have feeling its very tough for out-of-state to get in. (We are from FL.)</p>
<p>Any advice is appreciated.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>'nuff said.</p>
<p>But Carnegie Mellon is SUPER hard to get into SC. Some other schools within CMU not so hard however.</p>
<p>Have you checked out FIT, I assume?</p>
<p>FIT is not good enough. If he stays in FL then it would be UF.</p>
<p>Right. Maybe he will score higher on the Oct. SAT and have a chance for CS in CMU but for now he's toward the lower end of their 50th SAT percantile.</p>
<p>You can apply to the IS program at CMU (much easier to get into) which involves a lot of CS and get a degree in CS while doing what you have to do for IS. The only difference is, the diploma won't say it is from the School of Comp sci, but rather Information Systems. Big whoop. A degree in CS from CMU is a degree in CS from CMU. End of story.</p>
<p>Employers do look at whether you got your CS degree from the School of Computer Science or not, trust me.</p>
<p>the admissions(out of state) into ucberkeley is fairly the same admissions rate for instate. i even think it was slightly higher for out of state than for in state this year(i heard)</p>
<p>That's interesting. Berkeley either states or implies (can't recall which) on their site that the expectations from out-of-state is higher.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon allows you to apply to multiple schools within it and double majors/transfers are available. Transfers are not guaranteed but double majors are (above a 3.0) so a double in IS/CS or ECE/CS is quite popular.</p>
<p>the expectations maybe higher, true, but that doesn't mean the acceptance rate will be lower. if a ton of students from out of state apply with high stats, they're bound to accept a percent of them, so in reality the percent they accept can be around the percent they accept for instate.</p>
<p>I'm told that UT-Austin's CS program is very good.</p>
<p>1 Stanford<br>
2 MIT<br>
3 Cal Berkeley<br>
4 Carnegie Mellon<br>
5 Cornell<br>
6 Princeton<br>
7 Texas<br>
8 Illinois<br>
9 Washington<br>
10 Wisconsin<br>
11 Harvard<br>
12 Cal Tech<br>
13 Brown<br>
14 Yale<br>
15 UCLA<br>
16 Maryland<br>
17 NYU<br>
18 Massachusetts<br>
19 Rice<br>
20 Southern Cal</p>
<p>A gem that you may not have heard of but which is really up there is Harvey Mudd College.</p>
<p>Maryland College Park, Duke, UVA, Vanderbilt</p>
<p>University of Washington ... Bill Gate country.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for your replies!</p>
<p>UT Austin is definitely up there with the best in CS. Im doing CS there this Fall!</p>