<p>So I've gotten into a few schools (all for Computer Science).
These are the schools, so far (in no particular order)</p>
<p>Drexel
Stony Brook
Penn State Harrisburg
UC Riverside
Cal Poly Pomona</p>
<p>What do you guys think? Does any one colleges of these stand out to you?
Personally, I'd love to be in a city, like Drexel, but the cost at this point is too high.</p>
<p>Stony Brook seems to be the best bang-for-my-buck so far. I've heard the CS courses are really good too.</p>
<p>what’s in-state for you? How much can your parents afford?
UC’s OOS are too expensive (unless your parents have $200,000 set aside for your education that you wouldn’t rather use to buy a house and a car and take a trip abroad with).
How much is each school out of pocket (ie, deduct ONLY the grants and give us the cost of loans + family contribution)</p>
<p>Sorry! I should have mentioned this up front.
I actually won’t be considered in state for any college. I’m a US Citizen, but have been living abroad for the past few years.</p>
<p>Now Drexel is 60k per year, and they’re giving me about 21k off (not including 6k loans) per year. I’m planning on appealing for more.</p>
<p>Stony Brook, on the other hand, is 34k, so even if I get 5k off, it’d still be cheaper than Drexel.
Cal Poly is similar. </p>
<p>Penn State Harrisburg has a sticker price of 38k, and I’m not expecting much aid from them anyways. (should have taken your earlier advice, MYOS) So this doesn’t seem worth it at all.</p>
<p>UCR is, like you both said, expensive for OOS.</p>
<p>I just want to add, only Drexel has given an estimated financial aid package. The others said to wait till around Feb-end for a package.</p>
<p>Stony Brook and Cal Poly Pomona are likely your lowest cost options, as the others are likely to be significantly more expensive (but wait until they give scholarship and financial aid offers; run the net price calculators to get estimates to think about now).</p>
<p>Stony Brook is probably preferable to most students, being a well recognized school for CS and near NYC. It also likely has a higher percentage of resident students (85% of frosh in dorms) than Cal Poly Pomona (50% of frosh in dorms), though some comments on these forums indicate that many Stony Brook students do head home for the weekends. Weekend visits to NYC should not be too difficult using the train.</p>
<p>Cal Poly Pomona is near Los Angeles, but the general region requires driving a car to get to many places in a reasonable amount of time (and even then, traffic jams are common).</p>
<p>Drexel’s selling point is the co-op, but Stony Brook has an optional co-op program.</p>
<p>I just accepted to SJSU and SUNY Albany as well.</p>
<p>SUNY Albany is offering me 7k scholarship (not including other aid), so that brings the cost down quite significantly.
I’m not sure about the school itself though, especially for CS. I heard it’s a big party school…</p>
<p>SUNY Albany has invested significantly in their CS program. A collaborative effort between Private Industry and the Public Sector. I think if you research this you will find it to be quite impressive. </p>