He says 5-6 AP of 22 offered. I did not say he won’t get into Rutgers. I just think 90% likely was off kilter. He wants high end and he should apply as long as he goes middle and low. Says $$ don’t matter. But I bet his parents may not agree. Someone mentioned Cincinnati b4. Schools like that are solid fall backs.
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A lot of the regular posters on the web site have degrees from top universities (MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, …) and have worked for their entire careers with coworkers and bosses who got their degrees from Rutgers, NJIT, UNH, one of the IIT’s in India, U.Mass, SJSU, and a very, very long list of other universities. We see how strong the graduates are from these other schools. Top students attend a very wide range of universities for a very wide range of reasons. Affordability is one of the issues that pushes very strong students to attend in-state public universities. It is not the only issue but it is a big one.
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Admission rate alone may not give the full picture. It is certainly possible that the UIUC applicant pool for CS may be stronger than the overall UIUC applicant pool, so the difference between 4% of a stronger applicant pool versus 60% for the overall applicant pool is greater than just the admission rate difference suggests. Also, applicants to popular majors like CS at UIUC may get admitted to second choice majors or DGS (general undeclared) instead, adding to the overall admission rate.
A different kind of example is San Jose State University, which uses a non-holistic admission process that basically ranks frosh applicants by HS GPA (recalculated with limited weighting, maximum about 4.3-4.4), but with a few categories of bonus points (e.g. local area students get the equivalent of +0.25). For CS, the fall 2021 admission threshold was equivalent to a 4.25 HS GPA, even though many other majors had admission thresholds equivalent to a 2.50 HS GPA. Freshmen Impaction Results | Admissions
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Aren’t IITs in India considered highly elite generally, unlike the others in your list of “other universities”?
It is true that there are plenty of graduates of “other universities” (i.e. not elite ones) working in computing. Yes, many of them graduated before the CS majors at those universities became highly selective due to rapid popularity growth exceeding their capacities.
Yes.
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