<p>Wow! All these responses are great, I really appreciate them. With these replies, I’m looking at:</p>
<p>Wash u St Louis
Caltech
Stanford
Rice
Vanderbilt (could anyone touch on their CS program?)
Duke
Johns Hopkins
and now:
Northwestern
Rochester
Carnegie Mellon
and of course I will add some safeties later</p>
<p>Couple more questions: Could anyone touch on how Vandy’s CS program is? Also, could someone compare CMU’s campus to one of these other schools, or give a brief description of just how ‘urban’ it is? When I began researching CMU, I was turned off by the urban location.</p>