<p>Just a thought: you could just apply to Brown’s Computer Science graduate program. I know a few people who did that and they seem quite happy with their choice. According to them, if you do well with Brown’s undergraduate CS curriculum and make those close connections with your Professors then you really shouldn’t have too much of “hard time” (I use that loosely) getting accepted into the graduate program. I don’t know how much truth there is in that, but that’s what I was told. Again, just a suggestion.</p>