WUSTL
UVA
Duke
UNC
Davidson
Emory
Vanderbilt
USC
These schools offers great need based aid or merit aid. Just looking if these schools offer theoretical or more coding classes?
USC is the best ranked in CS on this list, and it has a strong engineering and CS program and if your child is National Merit winner, there is a half tuition merit scholarship at USC. The overall price though is very expensive because Los Angeles is expensive for living. Another caveat is that a few students will be offered spring admission at USC although if she wins merit there, it will be fall admission, most likely.
Duke is a close second though.
Emory and Davidson are focused more on liberal arts and sciences, very highly ranked, but may not have the super strong math kids that are leaning towards computer engineering/CS or math, although they offer math and CS.
I like Vanderbilt’s EE engineering program, we looked at it carefully. but not sure about CS.
WUSTL offers the 3-2 engineering for many liberal arts colleges, so there are some number of students that attend WUSTL for only two years, but study liberal arts at another school for three years. I don’t know how their CS stacks up to the others.
I think if you look at US News ranks in CS that will give you an idea about program strengths, but Davidson will not be ranked as it does not have a PhD program.
There are programs that are more hands on, so a bit lighter in math, like , Worcester Poly, and RIT up in Rochester, and the way to figure that out is to look at the average math SAT score of the admitted students, but I would
say many of the top CS programs like Stanford, MIT and GaTech, and UIUC, combine theory and coding, its a balance so students do learn both.
Davidson and Emory are already out as they are great colleges but not is CS.
She is applying in 2019 cycle.
Daughter is mathy kid
OOS Merit at UNC-CH is extremely limited. Same can be said for Duke as they do have merit but a lot of it is restricted to NC residents. You can try for the Robertson but if you are winning that then you’re most likely getting into Harvard and Princeton with the best need-based aid.
We are trying to cast a wide net and looking for information before making a final list to apply.
USC=Cal or South Carolina?
cal
We are Korean thefore applying to cast a very wide net as ORM competition is very tough.
To say that “most” of Duke’s merit aid is restricted to NC residents is not factually accurate.
You have the Robertson, the AB Duke scholarship, the Karsh scholarship, the Rubinstein scholarship, the University scholarship, etc.
^ All of these are not restricted to residents of NC.
I would not worry about being Asian American. Look at all her strengths. A girl thats good in math will
get admitted and often win merit at many larger state programs like:
U of Maryland
Purdue
Ohio State
maybe UIUC (top ranked EECS similar to MIT’s program)
That may be outside what you were thinking but those large state programs have better ranks in CS, more cutting edge research, have plenty of freshman seats compared to Duke or Vandy, arguably better CS faculty than the top ranked schools you list , and the public programs love to accept girls in engineering. The price tags are way less than Duke or Vandy as well.
I am really impressed with Purdue’s CS investment, research and undergraduate is very guided, for a large state school: Purdue is a school on the way up. They offer modest OOS merit and the total price tag is good so it may
work out. Its the sweet spot for rank/price in CS right now:
UUIC does not offer any merit or need based aid to OOS students
I know a Colorado student on a full ride merit at UIUC. UIUC has many merit scholarships offered by specific departments that are open to OOS students. They are about has hard to win as the OOS merit at GaTech.
GaTech offers only 40 OOS merit Stamps scholars and Provost scholars get in state tuition at GaTech.
I think UIUC and GaTech are about the same for OOS merit. HARD TO WIN!
Read the FAQ for UIUC merit here:
https://engineering.illinois.edu/admissions/cost-and-financial-aid/scholarship-faqs.html
UIUC is competitive to get directly into CS or ECE. There is merit for the best out of state students.
I will check those, thanks a lot
@JenniferClint Ok maybe not ‘most’ but Duke has pretty limited number of merit scholarships and there are other restrictions which make it even more limited for anyone outside of the Carolinas. For example the Rubenstein is for low income, First generation students. When my D was looking at Duke I investigated as much as possible and seemed to come up a number of less than 30 for merit scholarships she might get (did not count the Robertson).
Definitely a small number. Just pointing out that most of them are not restricted.