Pomona also is no one’s match…
A few I’d recommend: BC, GaTech, RPI.
As others have mentioned, Harvey Mudd and Pomona are nearly as hard to get into as MIT. Not a match for anyone.
Your stats are very very similar to my daughter’s. She got waitlisted at Chicago, Cornell, Rice, rejected by Stanford, Penn, Princeton, Berkeley, and accepted by RPI and CMU (engineering, not CS; CS at CMU is incredibly difficult to get into). Choose RPI (they offered a lot more aid) and very happy there. (She’s currently a freshmen in engineering.)
PS. I should add that with your stats there are many schools in the 25-50 rankings that you could likely be accepted to, so you’ll have to think about where you want to live, big school or small, public or private, class size, environment, etc.
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Thank you @insanedreamer I got into my safety school Santa Clara University EA, but they are not very generous with merit aid. I am really surprised your D didn’t get into more schools with those stats. Now I am really scared.
Well, honestly, no matter how good your stats are, any of those top-20 schools are a roll of the dice, as nearly everyone who applies also has a great CV. FYI, her SAT was 2300 and Chemistry 720, but her SAT2 Math was only 750 so you have some advantage there, UW GPA 3.95 IIRC, APs, etc. So hope for the best but don’t be disappointed if you don’t get in, and be prepared with more schools not in the top 20. My D only applied to 2 schools not in top-20 - she was going for the “all or nothing” approach, and I wish she had applied to a few more as she would have had a couple more options. (Though in the end, she’s very happy at RPI, so all is well.)
@njgirl those are all safeties not matches
I would agree with a lot of the other suggestions - RPI, WPI, Northeastern, and Rose Hulman, with Olin and Mudd being reaches for anyone. Michigan, too, but that is a reach for anyone applying OOS for engineering /computer science.
Maybe consider Lehigh, Case Western, and Stevens, too?
You would probably get a good amount of merit aid from some of these schools.
Good luck!
Thank you everyone!
I don’t think Boston College is a good match because they don’t offer engineering. I’m not sure how they’re computer science is.
Yeah, I meant BU, not BC. Oops.