Keep:
- Colgate
- Boston College
- RIT
- Rowan
Not going to question your credibility. Good luck!
A need-blind school can be of little help if it doesn’t meet full need (most schools fall into this category). Need-aware (and need-blind) privates that meet full need can be most affordable, but they’re competitive. Federal student loans are quite manageable after graduation and should not be avoided if they enable a college education.
Again, not necessarily true. While out-of-state publics may have lower list prices than privates, that may be an advantage mainly for those from wealthy families. The FA estimates that the OP has indicates that s/he will be a high FA student, and out-of-state publics usually give no or poor FA (and PA publics give poor FA even to their in-state students).
@vonlost
I totally agree with @ucbalumnus . I believe the lowest price is instate publics, then privates, then out of state publics. My older brother got affordable (albeit still difficult) deals on all his choices.
My intention in posting my net price results wasn’t to request that people suggest what’s cheapest. I can afford all of the above listed schools and I was asking if you guys could help me select 4 or 5 of them since I don’t want my list to be too long.
So in other words, for what they are charging me, which schools are worth keeping on my list?
@slimmy are you in NJ? I would definitely keep Rowan; they give some of the best merit of the NJ state schools. I have heard nothing but great things about Lafayette so if it’s affordable I would definitely keep that as well. Good luck!
@NJWrestlingmom Yes Northern Jersey. Rowan is my safety. I went 2 months ago to walk around campus, loved it. I’m trying to get into as rigorous a program I can so I’m shooting for RPI hopefully or maybe RIT.
@ucbalumnus, regarding posting #13, I agree that with a full roster of Varsity teams the student-athlete hook is strong at the LAC’s. That said, its only a hook as the avg. accepted student profile at the highly selective LAC’s remains very high regardless; its no different than a Questbridge hook - still a very impressive candidate that would be admitted regardless, but can now attend debt free!
@slimmy Rowan also has the Honors college, so you can apply for that as well in case your others don’t work out. It is a separate application; not automatic consideration.
I attended an RPI info session last Spring and I’mm pretty sure they said CS was the most difficult major to get into. Lots of high quality applicants, not many slots.
I think you’ll find that atone of the schools on your list. If you are mid-range stats wide you probably want to look at some schools that have slots for a lot of kids.
RPI
BU
URochester
@RightCoaster You are right about the higher qualifications to get into CS for generally all schools but verifiably so for RPI. I’m hoping that the [common data set section C7](http://provost.rpi.edu/institutional-research/common-datasets) is correct when they say that Alumni/ae relation is considered. I got slightly higher grades than my older brother in highschool so perhaps they will see it as a good thing.
CMU accepted my bro but not for his major. If RPI does the same with me, accept me albeit not for my major, that would be fine because after I get my foot in the door I’ll take a few core semesters and then prove to them that I can score well enough to change majors to CS.
RPI’s criteria to switch to the CS major are listed at https://science.rpi.edu/computer-science/programs/undergrad/bs-computerscience
yep, that’s what I meant when I said…