Rutgers CS vs University of Wisconsin CS

[NJEngineerDad]

NJIT and Rowan are definitively not of the of same caliber as Rutgers for Computer Science (NJIT #104, Rowan #249) but if one can get in their Honors College with good merit (NJIT merit goes up to tuition and room) I think that the price difference is difficult to ignore (at least for families that would have to take a loan for Rutgers).

More info at on the Honors College can be found at:

Side discussion thread for top New Jersey engineering students looking for advice getting merit aid

Hello. I am starting this thread for the top 10% students from New Jersey that might be following the thread “Looking for advice in Merit aid for a top 1% student” with interest because they want to study engineering or computer science and are looking for merit scholarships. If you are a NJ resident, my advice is that, on top of all the schools that have been mentioned so far in the “Looking for advice in Merit aid for a top 1% student” thread, you should apply to Rutgers but do not consider it a financial safety because all top NJ students have high SAT scores and the bar to get a merit scholarship is apparently being raised every year. A few datapoints I have gathered suggest that a score in the order of 1530 single-sitting SAT (35 ACT) might be needed to get accepted at the Rutgers Honors College via the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) and a score in the order of 1570 single-sitting SAT (36 ACT) might be needed to get accepted at the Rutgers Honors College via the School Of Engin…