US domestic (US citizen or permanent resident) or international student - US Domestic
State/Location of residency: (state is important if you apply to any state universities) - New Jersey
Type of high school (current college for transfers): Public
Gender/Race/Ethnicity (optional): Male
Other special factors (first generation to college, legacy, athlete, etc.): None
Intended Major(s) : Computer Science, Data Science
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
Unweighted HS GPA: 3.7
Weighted HS GPA (incl. weighting system): 5.53
College GPA (for transfers): -
Class Rank: 54/540
ACT/SAT Scores: 32 / 1430
Coursework (AP/IB/Dual Enrollment classes, AP/IB scores for high school; also include level of math and foreign language reached and any unusual academic electives; for transfers, describe your college courses and preparation for your intended major(s))
AP Computer Science
AP Statistics
AP Calculus AB
AP Calculus BC
AP US History
AP Language and Composition
AP Physics 1
Awards
Presidential Service Award - Gold Medal
Extracurriculars (Include leadership, summer activities, competitions, volunteering, and work experience)
Founder and President of Coding Club at High school
Programming Intern at Biomedical company
Teach a Intro to Programming course to middle schoolers
Student Leader and Assistant Teacher at Sunday school
Entrepreneurship Internship (won 2nd place in final Business pitch)
Robotics, Math and Chess Clubs at school
Essays/LORs/Other (Optionally, guess how strong these are and include any other relevant information or circumstances.)
Cost Constraints / Budget (High school students: please get a budget from your parents and use the Net Price Calculators on the web sites of colleges of interest.)
Ideally < 50K / year - looking for scholarships
Schools (List of colleges by your initial chance estimate; designate if applying ED/EA/RD; if a scholarship is necessary for affordability, indicate that you are aiming for a scholarship and use the scholarship chance to estimate it into the appropriate group below)
Safety (certain admission and affordability)
Likely (would be possible, but very unlikely or surprising, for it not to admit or be affordable)
Well - if you want inexpensive, go south and west. Your Alabama, MS State, Arkansas, South Carolina with merit.
Bama, for example, you’d earn $28K (at least) and so your total cost would be under $20K. It’s why they are 58% OOS - many from the NE. See link below. UAH is another.
Many a school - from a Purdue to Miami of Ohio to a Delaware to smaller schools such as Charleston, U Denver to - really you name it - URI, UNH, …need more to work with
The world is open for you my friend - yes, there are schools that won’t make cost or you may not get into - but that’s 10%…the other 90% are saying…come to mama!!!
@sacamb - As your looking through schools thumb through the different departments. Sometimes you see Data Science in with Computer Science other schools have it in the Mathematics department.
A couple to consider - Pitt, William and Mary, Holy Cross, St Joe’s, Stevens, Marist
Don’t forget he has a $50K budget - so schools like Pitt and W&M - without unlikely merit - will not get there. As you mention Stevens, NJIT would be the public option.
Holy Cross, St. Joes have the religious bent - OP - are you open to religiously or jesuit affiliated schools.
Really as I said b4 - 90% of the country is wide open…so it helps if you narrow beyond - not cold and size irrelevant.
It could be a huge Arizona State or Central Florida, a mid / large Miami Ohio, a mid / small Denver and just a small school - like name your LAC.
Others have data science in either CS or statistics.
Really the gist of my comment was - we need more info - or we can name every college in the country of every size that could get you with merit or in pure cost to $50K - where their academic stats would fit.
@sacamb, are there any deal-breakers for you (as in a college MUST NOT have some characteristic)? Are there any must-haves? What would you like to do for fun in college? Is there an area of the country where you would like to find work after you graduate? Is there a certain distance you would like to be from home (minimum or maximum)? Do you prefer smaller classes where the professor would knows you and whether you’ve been in attendance, or do you prefer the anonymity of larger classes? Getting some more information about what you like would be helpful in recommending schools to you. With your accomplishments in high school, there will be a lot of options for you!
Does this mean you won’t qualify for need based aid? Please run net price calculators at some of the schools you are considering to see if they would be affordable.
If you don’t qualify for need based aid, schools that offer only need based aid won’t be affordable.
I don’t think you get into any school you mentioned except maybe Va Tech. UMD next but unlikely.
When I said 90% of colleges were within reach, these are the other 10%.
Va Tech stated cost is over $50k. You need to 100% redo your list. A private like Denver or Bradley or Hofstra will work budget wise. I mentioned schools b4 that would work.
Purdue works from a budget pov but is a reach.
For budget and pedigree try Minnesota (target), Florida reach, Georgia reach and FSU hard target.
You didn’t give the list in advance but in my opinion you didn’t just slightly overreach but shot way above reality. Just don’t want you to get shut out.
