Hey Guys!
I am currently in a predicament and was hoping you guys could help me out. Let me start by telling you about myself. I am currently a international student in an international school in my final year - IB exams in a month!! Anyway so a few months ago I was rushed into applying for my universities as I was not planning to apply to the USA (wanted to do medicine earlier from AUS). But after intensive research I realized that the medical path in the USA wasn’t very practical for an international student and with such a short time left to apply to the unis I had to take a quick decision to changing my major to something I seemed enjoyable- computer science. So yes since this was in mid December, I must add that I had missed the UC schools and UIUC to apply too. Anyway I ended up applying to a list of unis with my predicted IB score of 33 and sat score of 1800.
The decisions I have now received are the ones below. However now I am unsure as to what I should choose:
Boston University- great overall rank, expensive however. CS program is only decent. However option to choose a variety of decently ranked majors. Good job prospect??
Penn State- University Park - Overall rank not far away from boston, cheaper, CS program is average wouldn’t say out of the world, has a good business school rep and large uni allows for option to choose a good range of decently ranked majors.
Virginia Tech- overall rank not very high, good tech school for recruiting, decently priced, good food, cs program is above average
Purdue-Main Campus- not very high overall rank, great cs program, high recruitment opportunities.
So i don’t exactly know what to choose anymore. I have never done cs before and have no prior knowledge of any sort in the subject at all and wouldn’t rate my math skills out of the world. But at this point in time I have no idea what other major to do…i have worked a little with computer automation (bots etc…) and enjoyed that but thats about it.
So yeah, If its only for cs then I think my research tells me purdue would be the best option correct? But since im unsure about the major would it be a better option to go to a school like penn perhaps where they have a good scope to try out other majors which have some recognition…i feel like purdue may be too engineering oriented??
Also could someone let me know how the transfer process works. My predicted IB grade was quite low due to me falling sick during those exams and not being able to perform. But i am confident that in my finals I should be able to get something alot higher around 36-37 so let me know if this can help me with transfer and like which uni is easier to tranfer from. For example if you suggest penn and think that transferring into a more focused uni for that major with a better rank is an option. then let me know. I know transfers are not so easy and so would like a uni where i’d have a good career in the future if i graduated from here.
And lastly, this is really my last option but would you recommend i improve my ib score and reapply for the winter session to a better uni or go with the ones i have.
Thank you so much for your help guys :))
Also if you are a current student or are in the same situation please message me would love to get to know things about the CS programs and things like tha