<p>hey guys, I've been lurking a bit and everyone seems super super nice here so I thought i'd chance posting. Alright, since I'm the first in my family to go to college in the US, no one has really offered me any direction as far as schools go. I haven't grown up with any loyalty to specific colleges or even heard their names in my house so I'm completely out of the picture, and as a junior (senior soon) I realize I need to get my stuff together.
So!
I have a 3.2, not amazing class rank - i think around 132 - and I got a 2010 on my SATs (660 reading, 660 math, 690 writing). I got a 1910 or thereabouts on my PSATs soph year and I've been receieving bucketloads of college correspondence, email and physical, ever since. I just don't know what's good/what's not/where to start haha.
I live in NJ and don't really want to go far - I've visited Drexel (which was cool but I didn't like how it was so woven into the city), Rider (which I really totally disliked), and Rutgers (which I loved). So based on that I have my heart set on Rutgers but I don't really have anything to back up that opinion.
Can ya guys recommend some places for me to check out? I'm very interested in network/computer science and I'm planning to take some stuff this summer to that end.</p>
<p>Put together a list of what you liked and what you disliked about the colleges you visited. Then post your list and we may be able to better help you.</p>
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You obviously didn’t see me :P</p>
<p>Anyway, I know someone who went to Rutgers for CS (albeit at the graduate level) and liked it a lot. I don’t know what it’s like for undergrads…</p>
<p>I looked up the Rutgers CS program, and I wasn’t particularly impressed with its undergrad course offerings. (of course, I have a fetish for AI classes… of which Rutgers seems to have very little). </p>
<p>But it seems decent overall.</p>
<p>Based on what you like, I would also look at UConn and UDel. Both are less than half the size of Rutgers yet still very big with many new facilities and quickly improving reputations.</p>
<p>You might check out Stevens.</p>
<p>ok…Rider:
- small
- it’s across the street from my high school so it would feel kinda lame (being in the exact same town)
- expensive D:
Drexel: - kinda dirty
- unnerving how woven it is into the city
- philly isn’t the safest of cities anyway
Rutgers:
I liked everything about it. Although the size is slightly unnerving, I think I’d get comfortable eventually.</p>
<p>NJIT(easier to get into than Stevens), Temple, RIT, RPI, but the last two are kind of far from NJ. I’m not sure about how good the CS departments at some of these. TCNJ is a good buy for NJ people but I don’t know if they even have a CS dept.</p>
<p>Rutgers shouldn’t be too hard to get into.</p>