Good schools for a B student?

Applying to College
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<p>Hey guys this is my first post.<br>
Well anyway, I'm looking for schools that have a good comp sci major.</p>

<p>My GPA in 9th grade was a 3.1
GPA in 10th grade was 3.25
GPA in 11th grade is a 3.5</p>

<p>In 11th grade I plan on taking AP comp sci and the rest of my classes will be honors.
I really screwed up the first two years in highschool...</p>

<p>As far as extracurriculars go i am a captain of a high school vex robotics team and we went down to Dallas and next year I am planning to be a captain again.</p>

<p>I'm not in all aps and i'm surely not the top of the class but I'm looking for some good comp sci schools.</p>

<p>I know the "typical" choices. UC Berkeley, Caltech, MIT, CMU.
But my chances of getting in there are probably slim to none.</p>

<p>I live in NJ so the common comp sci state schools are Rutgers and NJIT.</p>

<p>Any ideas?</p>

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<p>have you looked into WPI, and RPI? Both of them are in your area, and both schools have great CS program</p>

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<p>I’ve never even heard of those schools before. But i guess that’s why i made this post so i could find out about more schools that would be right for me.</p>

<p>Anyway here’s my golden question. How do you compare one school to another? What separates one school from having a really good cs program to a school having a mediocre cs program.</p>

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<p>Hm, I’m not completely sure about the GPA requirements for it but why don’t you consider CalPoly?</p>

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<p>i dont know about cs. but for computer engineering theres uni. of illinois urbana-champaign. and georgia tech. both have fairly high acceptance rate :). btw. you really should look into engineering. have fun.</p>

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<p>Pepperdine, George Washington U, syracuse university, U maryland at college park, ohio state columbus.</p>

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<p>A simple search here in CC found this:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/639600-schools-b-student-good-sats.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/639600-schools-b-student-good-sats.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>University of Maryland, College Park, is not too easy to get in to. I just talked to a Maryland resident with a 3.8 who was waitlisted.</p>