<p>I am currently a sophomore in high school. I have started my college search and I know that I want to get in the field of computer science. What schools would be a good match? I dream school would be Carnegie Mellon, while MIT is a close second.</p>
<p>My Stats
3.89 GPA Weighted
3.84 GPA Unweighted
Class Rank: 5 out of 97
ACT: 29 (Only taken it once without the writing)</p>
<p>EC's
Engineering Team
Academic Team
Track (Hurdles)</p>
<p>Not the greatest stats I know. I definitely have the greatest course schedule rigor out of my whole school though. I am in every honors course this year, I take summer courses to get ahead of everyone else, and I am the only one who has ever self-studied an AP at my school. I am self-studying for the AP Calculus AB test this May which is a pretty big achievement because Calculus AB at my school is normally the advanced course for seniors.</p>
<p>What state do you live in ? First look at your in-state university then those expensive school. You could probably get into Carnegie Mellon with that rank and GPA. Increase the ACT score to at least 31 as you are in the 25th percentile right now. Here are some public universities good for computer science in no particular order:</p>
<ol>
<li>University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign</li>
<li>University of California-Berkeley(also Los Angeles)</li>
<li>Pennsylvania State University-University Park</li>
<li>Ohio State Unviersity-Columbus</li>
<li>University of Wisconsin-Madison</li>
<li>University of Minnesota-Twin Cities</li>
<li>University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</li>
<li>Iowa State University- Ames</li>
</ol>
<p>See another thread for my hearty defense of OSU cs.</p>
<p>Go for CMU! You have what it takes!
UIUC is a very very good one, almost as good as CMU and just remember to apply during their priority filing period (in two years, I know) because it gives you a huge advantage.
Also look into:
Georgia Tech
University of Washington
Cornell
UPenn
Princeton</p>
<p>Those Ivies look hard but you’re a sophomore self-studying AP Calc, if you succeed then I think you definitely have a chance. It takes a lot of determination and willpower to self-study an AP, especially in 10th grade (I took that course in junior year! and I got into <a href=“mailto:SCS@CMU”>SCS@CMU</a>.)</p>
<p>UIUC. </p>
<p>All my friends in cs are easily getting jobs and internships from microsoft, Facebook, Google, etc. Pretty good indication of how elite the program is.</p>