Need help making a college list

[storm oxide]

I would suggest UIUC for CS+stat, but I'm not too familiar with the city of urbana champaign

[ripe heath]

How are costs with dorm and stuff?

And also how are they with financial aid

[pallid kernel]

might have scholarships but prob not much aid since its public

cost is like 70k a year

[stray burrow]

Finaid would depend on your family annual income so im not sure 🤷‍♂️

w/o finaid here is a rough list to start with:
Reaches: Vanderbilt, Swarthmore, MIT, Duke, Harvard, UChicago, Brown, Stanford, Rice, CMU (a lot..)
Targets: Brandeis, Oberlin, Bucknell, RPI, GW
Safeties: Rose-Hulman, UN Lincoln, UDelaware, UM College Park

[old pike]

I love NYC too much to not suggest CUNYs or SUNYs as legitimate safeties

Columbia/NYU as reaches

[blazing plank]

About 50 to 60k a year in total everything cost

Do recommend CS + stats (biased since I'm in that program) but it's a very nice program and you'll definitely get stuff out of it

Good for recruiting too

Dorms are meh but you can spend extra for better dorms

Social life is blooming here

[ripe heath]

anyone else got any other suggestions

[errant ice]

def hard to get into the program though

[errant ice]

purdue for cs is also a good choice cuz of cause but its def a reach now for that program

[ripe heath]

do you have any other suggestions (not mentioned yet)

[storm oxide]

maybe umn for cs?

[errant ice]

oh ok prolly umass

but compared to other schools idk if id be worth to go. Its def a low target to high safety

[ripe heath]

Amherst?

[ripe heath]

how would you say it is like difficulty to get in

[storm oxide]

30ish percent?