I am looking for CS program information on Boston University, UNC Chapel Hill, UVA, USC and Vanderbilt.
I will just throw this out there that we didn’t consider anything a safety below the 60-70% acceptance rate, more so out of an abundance of caution but also from hearing horror stories. We also had a rolling admission school in the mix so dd had an acceptance in hand in October. Helped tremendously to know she was in an engineering program somewhere (and in honors college with full tuition).
If you have two safeties, and two matches that your daughter likes and you can afford, you are ahead of the game. My daughter had two safeties, 1 high reach, 1 low reach, and four matches. Rejected from high reach, wait listed from low reach, accepted everywhere else with various degrees of merit and honors college. Also helped that her favorite was one of the match schools.
It seems that UVA and UNC Chapel Hill might not pass the affordability test. (I’m assuming you’re not in state for either.)
depends daughter is being nominated for scholarships, if no scholarship nomination by high school, we will pull out as not affordable, meanwhile would like more information on these colleges and making a visit this summer.
UVA and UNC Chapel Hill are the only two publics that are not only need-blind but ALSO meeting full needs (most likely including some loans). Acceptance rates are much lower for OOS applicants as a significant (fixed) percentage of seats are reserved for in-state applicants.
Check to make sure that the safeties are safeties for the CS major.
Also check out UMD College Park. Top ranked for CS and may qualify for some merit. OOS is competitive . Stony Brook is a competitive school for a CS major, but your child probably has the stats for it. My son was admitted only to their Pre-CSprogram. He declined and is happily attending an in-state tech school. Do you have RIT on your list?
Women in CS will be considered as a definite plus in admissions. The major state universities you have listed have very good humanities/social science departments. In North Carolina, the tech/engineering school is in NCSU. So you will want to research what’s available in UNC Chapel Hill for CS.
@momprof94 So school program is at NCSU not at Chapel hill. I need to look for that.
@infinityprep1234 UNC Chapel Hill has a CS program in their Arts and Sciences college. There are other state universities with higher ranked CS programs, although I am sure UNC-CH is quite good. I am in NJ, so maybe someone else here more familiar with how the NC Universities work re: engineering/CS can have some better input.
UNC has a BA in Computer Science which is less math intensive and a BS in CS which is much more math intensive. Depends how well your child is with math.
You do not have to be from NY to be eligible for the RPI medal. There are many schools on the participating schools list which are in other states.
USC as in South Carolina or Southern California?
Southern California
Not sure what your income level is, but UMich gives FA for OOS up to 90k (or around that). My S is doing CS there.
@HRSMom Does Michigan gives FA to OOS at 123k level? It is a great school.
@infinityprep1234 -Can you clearly summarize what kind of school your vs. your daughter is looking for including fit, large vs. small, public vs. private etc?
I would encourage you to look at some of the Big 10/publics as many of them have pretty good CS departments. Does she know what field in CS she might want to specialize in? Does type of post-grad employment matter for her (big vs. small company) etc?
We need to know stats to narrow down schools - there are many decent CS programs.
3.98 GPA, 1550 SAT, 780 SAT math II, 800 Bio
Well I will try to summarize, no public or private school issue. But not interested in college that are located in rural area like Colgate Hamilton. Value college that have great CS departments. If college have liberal arts that would be nice but not necessary. Higher level math is necessary. She already have job offers and working for a very big tech company this summer. Still not sure what field of CS she will pursue, this is still up in the air.
Berkely and UUIC are out as those public do jot give any merit or need based aid to OOS student