<p>So I've been looking all over the freaking web lol and I can't find any somewhat decent schools that fit my profile. So can anyone recommend some good colleges for computer science (or similar)? I have a 1750 SAT and 3.2 GPA. My EC's are:</p>
<p>-Student Government
-Varsity Baseball
-Boys State
-AVID
-Yearbook
-NHS
-Karate
-Almost all honors and 1 AP.</p>
<p>I'm still working on my community service :/. I'm also an African American male. Please help. Thanks :)</p>
<p>Important considerations are your cost constraints, financial aid situation (i.e. is your family able and willing to pay the expected family contribution that colleges’ net price calculators show?), and state of residency. Such things are necessary in order to find financially realistic colleges (unless your family is able and willing to pay full price of up to $60,000 per year). Note that colleges meeting full financial need tend to be very selective private schools and in-state public schools in some states.</p>
<p>Using the SuperMatch search engine here on CC comes up with lots of matches for your stats. Lots of state schools but also privates like Drew, Wagner, Marist, Bryant etc.
Just put in your stats, major (make those “must-have” or else the matches are less accurate) and whatever else matters to you (location, size, etc.). It defaults to 20 matches so increase that at the top to see more. For any school click on the Why? button on the match ranking number and it will explain why it thinks the school is match or not quite.
Do you have any recommendations for schools from your guidance counselor?</p>
<p>Colorado at Boulder. Great school, 3.3 GPA about.</p>
<p>For CS, try your flag ship state public school, plus Maryland, Illinois, Ohio State, Purdue, UC Boulder, RPI, Case Western, Rochester Institute Technology, NJIT, and Rose Hulman.</p>
<p>Case, RPI - reaches with his stats…</p>
<p>Yes, Case & RPI are definitely reaches.</p>
<p>hendrix college</p>
<p>How much will your family pay each year? </p>
<p>your financial situation will largely determine where you should apply.</p>
<p>If your family can’t pay full price, then many/most OOS publics will not be affordable.</p>
<p>if your family will pay, then you’ll have lots of choices.</p>
<p>If you QUALIFY for the amount of FA that you need, then look at schools that give great aid AND want more male URMs.</p>
<p>Mom2collegekids - how do you know if a school wants more male URMs?</p>
<p>you could prabably see by percentages of their student body ^ If a school is like 80% white they may be looking for URM’s to add some diversity.</p>
<p>URMs are especially underrepresented in STEM majors everywhere, but the problem is more acute in engineering schools such as RIT, RPI, Case etc… That will give you a little boost for admissions and perhaps for merit scholarships as well. RPI for example has only 3% African American and 5% Hispanics. And 28% female, another disparity they try hard to rectify.
That’s why it is worth applying to several schools that look like reaches based on your GPA and test scores.</p>
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<p>If the U (underrepresented) applies to your group at that school, then it probably wants more. However, how much that helps varies (and it could be not at all), so do not assume that a reach is anything but a reach, for example. Make sure that you have a solid safety that you know that you will get into and you know that you can afford.</p>
<p>I didn’t even realize the search tool haha :]. thx Beantowngirl.</p>
<p>And to answer your question ucbalumnus, I’m from Florida and my parents are paying for my sister at another university. Parents don’t want to go broke so 15k maybe 20k tuition including Financial Aid would be the maximum.</p>
<p>thanks for the suggestions bigyonb and muckdogs07.</p>
<p>And yeah I’ve been looking at schools where I’m URM and most schools are like that lol XDD so I’m not sure how much it’ll actually help but hopefuly I can get in to schools like University of Wisconsin partly because of it</p>
<p>The cost may be the tough part, as most out-of-state publics do not give good financial aid. Some may be cheap at list price (e.g. South Dakota Mines or South Dakota State), but your safest bets cost-wise are likely to be in-state publics (unfortunately, your stats are just short of the automatic full ride at Florida A&M, although it and other Florida publics are not that expensive to begin with for in-state). You can try the net price calculators at each of the schools’ web sites to get a cost and financial aid estimate.</p>
<p>The first schools I thought of were the Rochester Institute of Technology (already mentioned) and Drexel.</p>
<p>Maybe Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Early Action. The deadline for the first round is November 10.</p>
<p>I second the WPI suggestion!</p>
<p>University of Alabama 
I’m an average student too, similar stats to yours give or take some EC’s and AP classes, but UA is affordable and gives good financial aid, excellent academics and an amazing atmosphere, everyone is friendly and a beautiful campus, and AMAZING school pride it’s so fun. Definitely worth checking out! roll tide!</p>