What are some target/safety schools for me as a CS/Data Science Major?

College Search & Selection
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Gender: Female
Hispanic
First Gen
NJ
SAT: N/A
GPA UW: 3.729
GPA W: 4.357
Rank: 17/311
AP’s:

  • AP Bio: 4, AP Lang: 5, APUSH: 5. (junior year)
  • AP Comp Sci A, AP Physics, AP Literature, and AP Italian (haven’t taken ap tests yet)
    Very rigorous schedule: took 3 honor classes freshman year, 6 sophomore year, 2 plus 3 AP’s junior year, and this year I have 4 AP’s. (didn’t take AP Calc but I’m in Calculus)
    Essay: my strongest point
    Letters of Rec: solid
    EC: Club Softball all four years (many hours a week), Varsity Softball all four years, “Girls’ Show” which is like a dance/drill team/theatre performance at our school for 4 years, Job for two summers/fall (35 hour weeks), Volunteer Softball Coach for younger girls for 4 years , Church volunteer for 3 years, Peer Mentor for groups of freshman 2 years (I was a selected applicant), writing and math lab tutor 2 years(selected applicant), Italian Club/ President for 4 years, Class of 2021 Committee for 2 years,
    Honors: National Honor Society 2 years, World Language Honor Society 2 years, PV Honor Society 3 years, PV Student of the Month
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How much can your family afford? Rutgers and TCNJ should certainly be on your list.

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I’m looking for schools that are under 40k a year. I have Rutgers, I wasn’t a fan of TCNJ when I visited but I’ll take a look. I don’t mind going far either.

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Look at business schools within the colleges. They’re starting to integrate business and math/CS for analytics and data science degrees. Also look at Industrial Engineering programs. Some integrate business and math/CS.

I was impressed with Temple’s program in the Fox school of business. If you can get into the business honors program they seem to really look out for their students.

Son is at Georgia Tech. Their IE program has an analytics track.

Good luck.