<p>I am going to be applying this year for college and I intend on majoring in computer science/computer engineering. I plan on applying to MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon... </p>
<p>However can anyone recommend any good safety schools for computer science?</p>
<p>P.S. - I live in texas and i'm top 10% so I'm guaranteed in at UT already.</p>
<p>UT has one of the top CS programs in the country. If you are automatically in, then just use UT as your safety unless you really don’t want to go there.</p>
<p>so I should just keep only one safety (UT) and focus on the rest of my reaches?</p>
<p>Well that depends on if you would be happy going to UT. If you don’t want to go to UT even if you don’t get into your top choices, then no, get some more “safeties.” If you would be perfectly happy at UT, then why bother?</p>
<p>I think the UT Guarantee has been removed from the legislature. Maybe Texas A&M is a sure safety.</p>
<p>Wrong. The change in the top ten percent rule doesn’t take effect until 2011. Then it will limit automatic admissions to 75 percent of the class.</p>
<p>definitely look at UT, cause not only is it a great computer science college, but for computer engineering, Dell is headquartered in Round Rock, about a half hour away from the UT campus. And for computer science, Texas is FILLED with huge cities that have plenty of computer science jobs willing to hire UT grads (DFW, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, even Beaumont and El Paso)</p>
<p>If I was a Comp E major I would HATE working for Dell. Dell doesn’t design hardware, they just put it all into a box and make sure it runs, and not even runs well. I don’t see Dell’s proximity to UT as an advantage at all. There are places like National Instruments and IBM that are located in Austin though.</p>
<p>Yeah, they may not even hire computer engineers.</p>
<p>Working at Dell as Comp E is like working on a Ford assembly line as a Mech E…</p>