<p>So I have some base colleges assembled but too many of them are reaches and not many matches. I got a 35 on the ACT two 800s on my practice tests, and run two business. I need help with recommendations for what other colleges to apply to.</p>
<p>I have UChicago, Northwestern, USC, Wesleyan, Georgetown, and OU but don't have much, if any, matches. </p>
<p>I am generally looking for a liberal arts college that is strong in computer science and is hopefully close to a city as I don't want to be completely isolated from civilization. But I am open to other suggestions!</p>
<p>If you’re a brainiac, Chicago & Northwestern should offer all that you can handle, but CMU, Stanford & Georgia Tech might offer more in your field of interest with a similiar degree of intellectual challenge.</p>
<p>I’m stumped as to which LACs are strong in computer science other than the Air Force Academy &, maybe, Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>Many kids think that they want to go to a city because they are going to ‘do it all’ but the reality is that college kids spend most of their time ‘just hanging out with friends.’ You are more likely to sit around a dorm room with friends and people you’ve just met than you are going to catch a show. </p>
<p>Being in a suburb might as well be rural. You won’t make quick trips into the city for something to eat because you will be focused on school or just hanging out. If you have the time to drive twenty or thirty minutes into the city it is probably a weekend trip and you have the time to drive an hour or two. In all reality, the trips will be more fun the further away you are because people will join in and it will become a mini road trip.</p>
<p>Most people that go to college in the city spend the majority of their time within a few blocks of campus and rarely leave that during the week, just as people on rural campuses rarely leave campus during the week. You want to make long lasting friendships and meet people, go to a school where people don’t commute to the school and where the majority of students didn’t pick the school based on the things they can do to get away from the school. </p>
<p>If the school is a good fit you will spend most of your time there. </p>
<p>You have a good list of schools and it would help to break it down by region of the country, type of students that attend (and their motivations), as well as the size of the school you want to attend.</p>
<p>@ Axelrod That’s one of my problems. I want more colleges that have mid level acceptance rates so that I have more places that I am more likely to get into. If there are other colleges besides liberal arts that have those and are strong in computer science than I would love to apply there! I just can’t think of any! And I do think I would do very well at both Chicago and Northwestern, I just have no idea how likely it is that I will get into them.</p>
<p>Did your sister hate Grinnell? You may hate it either way but a lot of people judge things on their face and simply wonder why anyone would like it without looking at the reason why people do like it.</p>
<p>Rural may not be right for you, and that is fine. Keep in mind, there are different types of suburban. Some suburban places are integrated into small suburb towns so you get the small town feel while being in a suburb while others have a recessed campus located in a suburb but you can’t easily walk anywhere.</p>
<p>The research triangle in NC has really helped to influence the offerings at the schools there. I would give Duke, North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC State, and Wake Forest a look.</p>
