I am interested in majoring in computer science while also having a liberal arts (ish) kind of experience. Unless strongly recommended otherwise, I would therefore prefer to avoid schools ending with “tech” or “institute of technology.” I think you will get an idea of what kinds of schools I want and what kind of student I am by seeing which schools I am already currently considering.
Colombia
Brown
Cornell
Duke
Northwestern
Wash-U
U-Chicago
Vanderbilt
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Northeastern
Boston University
Case Western
Lehigh
Lafayette
Penn State / Honors
Temple
I live on the east coast by the way. I would like the CS department to be strong. Advice on reach schools is appreciated but I am more interested in the middle category. If you would be kind enough to “chance me,” please see my other post. Thank you!
Actually, MIT has rather extensive liberal arts general education requirements, if that is what you are looking for, even though it is an “institute of technology”.
How much will your parents contribute to your college costs, and have you checked college net price calculators to see if the prices are in range of that without excessive student loans?
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Anticipated Major - Computer Science or Undecided
GPA - 4.0 unweighted 4.97 weighted (with my school’s system)
Rank - Don’t think my school does this but I’m near the top (at least top 10%)
ACT - 34 first time 35 second time
PSAT - 204 (probably commended merit award)
SAT 1 - Never took
SAT 2 - 760 US History | 770 Math Level I
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You mention that your grandmother has put away some money for you for college. Some grandparents are aware that many schools now cost $50k-70k per YEAR…but likely most grandparents do not. Does your grandmother have $200k+ put away for your college? ASK!
Carnegie Melon has like a 6% acceptance rate into their computer science department. For some reason, I think I’d prefer bigger schools than Tufts. UIUC is a good idea I hadn’t considered.
I don’t see Duke pops up as a good school for CS but rather bioengineering. It’s a good overall school.
The list from yahoo is not purely CS. We had a thread recently why it’s not.
Add Purdue as a rolling admission. I know it’s good for engineering, particularly Computer Engineering which is close to CS. Pick a school that is strong in math, they are most likely have great CS program like University of Chicago.
My dd expresses from time to time how very happy she was a Brown with her math-cs major and gasps that she might not have even found her major had she not gone to Brown. So I can tell you she and other Brown CS alums are pretty happy. She is at a startup now that came out of a Brown research group.
And there is a special section here to isolate chancing threads as chancing is a kid’s game, your own GC can do better for you knowing where kids from your school get admitted. Rough chances are always the admit rate of course, for super selective schools.
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Um pretty sure. She has gotten her husband’s United Nations pension for decades
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Still, ask. Someone who has been getting a pension “for decades” may not have been receiving much this past decade or so. Many pensions do not keep up with inflation.
Just to be on the safe side, find out how much she has saved for your college.
I’m not putting down Duke as a whole, don’t know anything about it except reading here on CC, but if the Duke graduates end up working as CS at investment banking type of jobs then it’s not a surprise. But I go strictly based on CS reputation.
@DrGoogle From what I understand, there is kind of a large start-up scene in that part of NC, and a lot of CS grads go on to work in those, Silicon Valley, or start their own companies. It’s good for CS, but I think UNC has a stronger program.
