<p>Maybe Case Western if you qualify for financial aid</p>
<p>Hi,
I’m a Senior kind of scrambling about college right now. I want to dual/ double major in Economics and Computer Science but finding a school that offers both and has good programs in both is rather difficult. My SAT score is 1950, but it could increase as a result of the most recent SAT I took. I get mostly Bs, but some As with a GPA of 3.7 in a college prep high school. Haven’t taken the ACT, but I’m being tutored now and will take it in the next two weeks. I can also claim that I am Hispanic (which apparently is huge plus). I live in Ohio, and OSU is definitely one of the schools I’m considering as the instate tuition and solid computer science are great incentives. The way I see it, if it’s not in-state, then it might as well be private and not public. I don’t want to come out of college with too much debt so take that into consideration.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>I know Case Western has a decent computer science program, but how is the economics program?</p>
<p>Would lower cost out of state publics (e.g. Minnesota or North Carolina State) or those which offer financial aid to out of state students (e.g. Virginia or North Carolina - Chapel Hill) be worth considering?</p>
<p>But how does “mostly Bs, but some As” become a 3.7 GPA (which would be mostly As with some Bs)?</p>
<p>I take APs and get Bs in those.</p>
<p>I would go to an out-of-state public, but the problem is that I’m unsure if the extra cost would out-weight the “better” education I could get at OSU. Right now, I’m only looking at OSU and Emory University in Georgia.</p>
<p>But its CS offerings are somewhat on the thin side.</p>
<p>How about U Alabama? You would get some merit aid there.</p>
<p>Really? Hows the economics and computer science programs at Alabama U? BTW, public/ private doesn’t really matter, because Purdue became my 3rd option today after a really good talk with the admission officers.</p>
<p>Emory’s? Is this “thin,” I just honestly don’t know. I’m suppose to meet with Emory’s representative on Thursday morning so I’ll ask then on what they think. [Math/CS</a> - Undergraduate classes, Fall 2012, Computer Science](<a href=“http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/classes-semester.php?subject=CS&year=2012&term=1&graduate=0]Math/CS”>http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/classes-semester.php?subject=CS&year=2012&term=1&graduate=0)</p>
<p>What about UNC at North Chapel Hill? Also, how important are my Senior grades this year for the two quarters? I might be breaking 4.0 this quarter. Would University of Chicago be too much of a stretch even though I’m Hispanic, I’ve had two jobs (lifeguard and 1 as an intern at GE over last summer), 200+ hours of volunteering, varsity year round athlete (nothing collegiate though) and there’s more but it’s escaping me. I wouldn’t do a double major at any school comparable to University of Chicago because the people there and the course curriculum would be just too much. I would definitely not do computer science at such a school, it’d be a waste of money when I could get the equivalent at OSU.</p>
<p>Or what about the following colleges for a double major in comp sci and economics? The better universities (or rather, harder) would just be economics and a minor in comp sci or something else. Please keep money as a factor too:
University of Chicago
Columbia University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Duke University
University of Wisconsin-Madison
New York University
University of California-San Diego
University of Rochester
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia</p>
<p>Try looking at the CS course listings at your state flagship, and the “big four” for CS (Berkeley, Stanford, CMU, MIT) to get a comparison of what to look for when browsing the CS course listings at other schools. Some smaller schools have a limited selection, or limited chances to take each course (e.g. offered once every two years).</p>
<p>If money is a factor, then be aware that most out of state public schools are not great with financial aid, although their may have lower list prices than the most expensive private schools. Minnesota and NCSU should be considered for low out of state list price, and UNC-CH should be considered due to offering financial aid to out of state students.</p>
<p>But mostly B grades may make getting into many of the schools on your list rather difficult.</p>