<p>My mother said those are the only states I can go to college in <em>sigh</em>. Although I'm from CT, I'd like to live OOS, so no CT schools please (: plus, I already know all about them.</p>
<p>I have a college list:
RPI
Barnard
UMass
BU
Rutgers
MIT
Yale (only CT school)
NEU
And two from PA (lehigh, cmu)</p>
<p>What other good schools are there for computer science, computer engineering, cognitive science, and psychology?
The latter two will be for a double major with computer science/engineering (I'm leaning more towards computer science). </p>
<p>I'd like to know about GOOD schools.
Also, I have Wellesley and smith on a tentative list. Thanks!</p>
<p>Buy “Paying for College Without Going Broke” Princeton Review by Kalman Chany. </p>
<p>Get the 2010 Edition and the 2011 Edition as the 2011 Edition does not include doing the EFC (Expected Family Contribution) for the IM (Institutional Methodology) The IM Is the formula most private schools will use! Get these books and have your parents do the worksheets in the back of the book for the IM & FM (Federal Methodology) so you know what you are up against financially. </p>
<p>Boston University & Carnegie Melon will probably not meet your need.</p>
<p>you’d enter as a college freshman in fall 2012? maybe NYU-Poly…? I don’t know if by then you’d be able to double-major in a program at NYU’s CAS, but Poly has been kind with financial aid historically.</p>
<p>Also, if you really “can’t afford anything,” please apply to in-state colleges. You know what I mean. U Conn.</p>
<p>WPI? Boston-ish school :)</p>
<p>Ah, Cooper Union. Olin. Olin is more-so engineering, sans liberal arts, b/c it’s so small, but I know it has some affiliation with a neighboring college (Wellesley?) that you can look into. Cooper Union pays for your tuition for all four years, and it’s a hardcore engineering/tech school right next to NYU Olin is also very generous with financial aid. Most of the smaller elite schools are.</p>
<p>I can tell you’re the overachiever type, so I gave you some schools that would probably be happy to pay for a lot of your tuition and would probably be good enough to help you reach any self/career goals you would also be likely to achiever at ‘high end’/‘prestigious’ universities.</p>
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Am I that readable? thanks, ill talk about the NYUs again but my mom doesn’t like them I don’t think. And oh, the dreaded word. </p>
<p>SLUMOM- that word again I’m debating on going to grad school, I’d rather do a 5 year program at one school. </p>
<p>I’ll visit UCONN, but if I don’t like it, I won’t do well there, and it’ll actually be a waste of money. (my physics teacher stresses how many students he knows that fail out of college because they hate it/can’t transfer)</p>
<p>Rhode Island may as well be in MA, and Brown is good for the majors you’ve mentioned. Admission is easier (by a little) than Yale or MIT. </p>
<p>Wesleyan is a little easier still. Sure, you’d physically remain in Connecticut, but the atmosphere is far out enough that you may as well be on another planet. Or not. I guess it depends on whether you hang with the preppy athletic subculture or the hipster bohemian subculture there … and what you’re trying to escape in Connecticut.</p>
<p>Maybe you better not show your mom a map of Pennsylvania because Pittsburgh (CMU) is farther away than Philadelphia (Penn).</p>
<p>Why can’t you visit?
Most of these schools are a fairly short drive from CT. Isn’t that the idea?</p>
<p>If you don’t drive and your Mom (or other relative) can’t take you, can’t you do a road trip with a friend? Or take a bus? You ought to at least visit a couple of dissimilar schools (urban v. rural, big v. small) to get a better idea of what you’re after.</p>
<p>If visits are truly impossible, you can order a few of the Collegiate Choice Walking Tour DVDs. Maybe your HS Guidance Office would buy them, or you could share the cost with classmates. I think they are about $15 each.</p>
<p>we don’t have time/money to visit. most are not day trips because we’d like to visit around the area. but mainly time. i’m going in spril to MA to visit umass, neu, and boston (might switch umass with wellesley).</p>
<p>as far as PA (my mom’s not ruling those out exactly), and ny, we can’t. and my mom wants to take me since she’s the only one actually involved. it’s complicated, but my mom doesn’t change her mind.</p>
<p>Edit: thanks^^ i’ll look up more SUNY’s too</p>
<p>i like that website ^^
barnard is my choice over columbia, although i’ll most likely cross-register =)
but thanks for that!
i heard pronceton has a weird major system? when they sent me info, they said their students dont “major” and then gave some long winded explanation that turned me off.</p>
<p>I am also a mom, so I understand where your mom is coming from. You are lucky to be living in New England (where I also live), because the states are small, and going to college out of state is not a big deal…you can go oos and still be not too far from home! Plus, we have soooo many good schools to choose from here! :)</p>
<p>I mentioned Univ of Rochester to you for many reasons:
I don’t know your stats, but you say you’re looking for a “good” college not too far from home. We looked at many of the colleges talked about on this thread for my older S, who is a h.s. senior and will be going to Tufts in the Fall.</p>
<p>Univ of Rochester has many similarities to Tufts…they were both named a “new Ivy” in Newsweek’s 2007 college edition…they both have roughly 5,000 students…Tufts is right near Boston, a big plus for my S…although he really liked Rochester too. Rochester is known (and Tufts too) for their Sciences. Rochester has a “cluster” program where you can pick your own classes…don’t think they have the same core requirements as many other Univs…Tufts is a bit more Liberal Arts, Rochester a bit more Science-y…</p>
<p>Rochester may be a bit easier to get in, don’t know for sure, heard they were very generous with merit/need money…my advice is to have your mom call the financial aid office (NOT NOW, wait until it’s a bit quieter, maybe in June…) and figure out your EFC and talk to the college FA director.</p>
<p>We toured Rochester and liked it a lot! The kids all seemed to be very friendly and not competitive in nature. Good luck with your search! PS: We also visited Cornell, but honestly it was soooo big…although S liked that a lot too. Depends on what you think you might be looking for!</p>
Olin is also very generous with financial aid. Most of the smaller elite schools are.</p>
thanks, ill talk about the NYUs again but my mom doesn’t like them I don’t think. And oh, the dreaded word. </p>