Hello, I am a senior and I am having trouble to what would be considered a match school for me with my stats. If possible, I would appreciated anyone who could give me suggestions to what could be match schools for me. Thank you
Race: Asian (Indian)
UW GPA: 3.8
W GPA: 4.2
SAT: 1520 (720 V and 800 M)
Desired major is computer science. I am have a leadership position at my computer science class and other volunteering clubs in my school.
If you need any more information, you can ask and I’ll try to answer with the best of my abilities.
I would consider schools like Purdue, RPI, UMD CP, a match for you. It’s tough with CS because it’s such a popular major so admission is tougher than what your stats would predict.
Would you prefer a tech-focused school, or one curricularly balanced across various academic disciplines, but which also would be strong in CS?
Rochester Institute of Technology; Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
@merc81 the latter would be preferred.
Hamilton might be a high match for you and offers what would, based on coding contests, be regarded as a nicely competitive CS program:
https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/comp-sci-department-hosts-college-computing-conference
The advantage of a program on this scale is that most CS classes are capped at about 24 students or fewer. Nonetheless, the range and depth of courses appears comparable in many respects to that of larger schools:
https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/departments/Courses-and-Requirements?dept=Computer%20Science
Do not consider RIT and WPI, unless you want a more hands on less mathematical education. The RIT and WPI are not really designed for someone who can get an 800 on the Math portion of the SAT, its more hands on and just straight programming, which is next to useless in today’s competitive CS job market. for the best jobs you need at least five to six tough math classes in the curriculum, and If you want a math based degree, stick with higher ranked math based CS programs, like CWRU, Purdue, GT, UIUC, Ohio State, and U of Maryland.
If you want a liberal arts college, then look carefully at the MATH strength of the liberal arts college. There
will be less options to work on campus with a top CS professional at a liberal arts college, but some will get you into pretty good summer jobs or REUs (payed summer positions at university CS departments that will lead you to a PhD in CS if you are after that. )
Take a look at some of the honors theses projects from Wesleyan in 2017:
https://www.wesleyan.edu/mathcs/cs/student_projects.html
Wesleyan is a reach for everyone. This poster asked for match schools. It might help if you gave us some information on what else you need. Are you looking at any specific geographic location? Small vs. Large, financial considerations? (Do you need financial aid? Are you looking for merit aid?). What are your instate options for your intended major?
Off the top of my head, I would look at Lehigh, Lafayette, for small liberal arts-like schools with good engineering departments. Udel, Uconn, Umass, Brandeis, RPI, Suny Stonybrook, NJIT – there are hundreds more but we need more information.
Note that the OP has not expressed an interest in engineering.
@animelover14 : If you might want to begin by narrowing your choices statistically, schools that place in the ~50-100 range in this analysis would in most cases serve as matches or low matches for you: https://amp.businessinsider.com/the-610-smartest-colleges-in-america-2015-9. Though the SAT scores shown have since been superseded by the newer calibration of the exam, the positions of the listed schools have remained similar. In some cases, however, admission to a CS major would be more competitive than that for the school generally.
@Coloradomama Just because a program has a practical focus does not mean it lacks the mathematical and theoretical. None of the CS programs you listed have any significant difference in curricula compared to RIT and WPI. That claim is objectively and categorically false.
https://www.rit.edu/programs/computer-science-bs
https://www.wpi.edu/sites/default/files/docs/Offices/Academic-Advising/CS.pdf
Note the plentiful theoretical and math requirements in both. WPI and RIT are great suggestions if one wants a practically focused and very solid CS degree from a tech school.
Some good schools not mentioned that would be high matches: Northeastern, Michigan, UT Austin, Rutgers, and Stevens Institute of Technology.
UIUC is a reach for CS.
This is also categorically false. As an example, the vast majority of jobs at google will use little math beyond algebra. Same with most big tech companies today. Math has a very important role in computer science, but few jobs will actually use it statistically. Good examples are linear algebra in graphics and statistics in AI/ML, but those classes are very typical for most CS degrees. Both are in the WPI and RIT degree paths.
Additionally note that the OP has indicated an interest in schools with broad curricula, so some of the “tech” suggestions may not align well in this case.
For a potential match school not yet mentioned, look into the University of Rochester.
The CS department at UT Austin had a 5% admission rate last year. Not a match.
Didn’t realize UT’s CS admit rate got so low, my bad there 
How about Brandeis? Suny Stonybrook? Rutgers?