What are my chances for CS at good schools

[thumper1]

If $15,000 really is the max your parents will pay annually for college, I would suggest you start with University of Alabama, University of New Mexico, and Arizona. It’s very possible you will get sufficient merit aid at those to make the schools affordable.

I would suggest you read through this thread. Like you, the family had a firm price limit and was looking for merit aid as they didn’t qualify for need based aid. This student wanted engineering, IIRC. But you can check some of the recommendations to see if CS is offered.

Looking for advice in Merit aid for a top 1% student

I’m sure this will come as a shock to a lot of people here but college is ridiculously expensive (yes, I’m sarcastic by nature). My daughter is graduating in 2020, and we are looking for schools to apply to, with the concern not being which colleges she will get accepted to, but instead which colleges we can afford. Most college calculators tell us our EFC is anywhere form $30K to 40K per year, which is about 1/3 of our after tax income and more than double our annual mortgage payment. There’s no way we can afford that, and there’s no way we’re taking out loans and mortgaging our (or our daughter’s) future to cover that cost. We need that number to be around $15K. Fortunately, it looks like our daughter will qualify for merit aid, so we are targeting schools with generous merit aid that also have great engineering programs (right now she’s looking to major in Chemical Engineering). I’m hoping to get advice from folks who have gotten merit aid and/or can offer suggestions on schoo…