<p>Thanks for all the quick responses! They are very helpful and surely I will post my follow-up financial aid question (with my family income situation to get a rough idea what my daughter may get) at the correct Financial Aid Forum then.
For now, apparently I should talk her out of Cornell U (ED, instead of regular admission) and may be MIT&CalTech are too long shot for her too. Personally, I prefer her not to go to MIT&CalTech anyway because she is very nerdy & Tomboy already. Out of her top 3 choices, Cornell U appears to be comparatively better balanced env. I don’t want my girl getting so nerdy that she can just make a good living but cannot live a good life (or find a husband!) down the road. </p>
<p>Yes, my daughter is aiming for computer science/engineering major. I am not growing up in US and a calculator was a luxury when I were in college back then! So, I have little clue which US colleges are good for computer science at all. Here are the school list that she plans to apply regular admission: Brown U, Yale U, JohnsHopkins U, CarnegieMellon U and Rice U. They all sound to be very famous. Are they too aggressive for her?</p>
<p>Personally, I’d like her to stay closer to home for those colleges (which I heard are good in computer science too) like U of Chicago, UI-UrbanaChampaign, UM-AnnArbor and UW-Madison. But as a typical teenager that she wants to go far away from home (East/West/South, but not stay in Heartland) to see the world. Sigh! I wonder if she may have better shot/chance for these closer-to-home colleges as I am trying to convince her to apply them as ‘safety net’.
Any comment or advice is highly appreciated!
- 5KidsDad</p>