#cs college list

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gray charm
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alr round two of asking now that i finally got an sat score and updated stats!

  • Location/hey have Region: city/suburb, northeast, west coast. in-state for tx but already have schools for that figured out.

  • Major: CS, maybe econ/business minor

  • GPA/Test Scores: 3.97UW gpa, 1510 sat

  • Curriculum: anything that could be useful in-field for software development

  • Size: no preference, both have benefits and drawbacks that i’m fine with

  • Costs: n/a

  • Schools You're Currently Looking At: utd, tamu, ut, rice, cornell and ucla

  • Additional: been to ut, loved everything about it but the roaches. i need a chill environment where people don’t reduce you down to your stats. good food.

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i am in-state for utd, have been there before and it’s got an amazing cs dept + integrated master’s program. if i don’t make anything crazy i plan on going there.

robust sedge
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washington has a pretty well known cs program but youll have to fight the abysmal accept rate

gray charm
robust sedge
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UCs are good as well obviously

gray charm
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do u mean uwash or washu?? it sounds p nice there

robust sedge
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seattle

gray charm
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ohh mkmk

robust sedge
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if you want to look at other regions, purdue uiuc georgia tech michigan are all the really great schools

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madison is also pretty good

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in terms of private ED/REA, to be honest i dont really know

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CMU is a very well regarded program but ED is a scam there

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and REAs in general arent worth

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im trying to figure it out myself and im applying this year 😭

abstract cloud
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It says you have it figured out in Texas but Rice ain’t on that list

gray charm
gray charm
gray charm
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i’ll come back and post again in a year, just needed a list starting out bc fr i got no clue what sorta unis i want

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all ik is i stayed at austin for a bit and was so so SO happy over there, i just really loved the environment and ppl were so nice compared to where i currently live

gray charm
robust sedge
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other than that they dont provide any significant advantages in terms of admit rates

gray charm
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ahh i see

robust sedge
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that being said, im thinking of adding austin in, how was your experience?

abstract cloud
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Texas just beat Bama so gotta be a great experience

gray charm
robust sedge
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yeah its just the heat for me 😭

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since im nowhere near the south

gray charm
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my biggest issue was that there were roaches 💀 but my roommate’s native to atx and said they usually don’t encounter them? and two people i know going there haven’t said anything abt it.

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it was raining the day before we started seeing them so that may be why

gray charm
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also THE SQUIRRELS. THEY ARE SO CUTE

robust sedge
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#1 reason for application and comittment 💯

gray charm
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nah fr

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if i dont own a copy of the squirrel yearbook then who even am i

quiet oriole
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apply to CMU

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top CS and T5 business

glass walrus
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we have the same sat🤭

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and gpa and list and major wtf

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this is crazy

gray charm
gray charm
glass walrus
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i have 1510 and im also applying to rice, cornell and ucla. same exact gpa which is crazy

cold quail
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hi tuna

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If you're already filling out the UC app, I think it's worth applying to Berkeley, UCSD, and UCSB as well for CS

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Princeton as well as Cornell are the best ivies for CS

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I think you should apply to Penn State CS as it is rolling and pretty good for recruiting, and that'll be nice to have in the bag

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Northeastern gets a lot of flak here for some reason but its a REALLY good CS school - many top schools design their CS curriculum around it

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also Co-ops are nice

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UMD is i believe t20 for cs? and pretty good for business/econ as well

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UMass amherst has really good food and is t30 for cs

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Boulder has good food but i'm not sure about CU Boulder. It's pretty good for CS though

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UIUC is the top school for Cs - if you can bag cs + econ i think you'd like that

robust sedge
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UIUC is not but its pretty high

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cornell ive heard good things, not princeton though so i might need to look at that (nvm princeton same level as cornell - us news ranks)

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md mass and boulder i have little idea about

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have too look at the other UCs too

robust sedge
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by eliminating all the supplements they got more people to apply and thus more people to reject

abstract cloud
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I will say the intro cs class at Rice is very impressively done. We cover like 3D projective geometry, error correcting codes, markov chains, graphs/dfs, weighted graphs, and predictive statistics, so everyone learns a ton.

cold quail
gray charm
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i'm mainly just trying to build a general list rn so i'd have more to research abt each one

cold quail
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if u want any more targets/reaches/safeties let me know and i'll lob some that are in those categories

gray charm
cold quail
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but what i did is I applied to one rolling school (Pitt) early and got in

gray charm
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funky :O

cold quail
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so that way u don't have to worry about getting into a safety

gray charm
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ty so so much for the advice 🙏

verbal yoke
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the intro cs class here is slow af for the first half and apparently becomes thrice as fast in the second half 💀

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just been sleeping in the lectures till now though

patent jungle
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Purdue is also good and cheap

surreal flint
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Im just gonna drop a message in here cuz i need similar suggestions for schools and i need to remember the ones listed so far 😭

whole bridge
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If you’re okay with Mid-Atlantic too you could look into UVA, Duke, UNC, VaTech, UPenn. NC might be too southern for you if you really want the north east but VA and Pennsylvania are the same just with more bearable winters.

gray charm
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ooooo mk

cold quail
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silly

grand drum
# gray charm alr round two of asking now that i finally got an sat score and updated stats! ...

very late but take a look at usc and ucla

  • both big schools, usc is private, ucla is public
  • both have a chill environment
  • SAT is within range for USC so thats good
  • Both have good food, ucla has fallen off after covid and usc is getting better

USC also has a major called computer science - business administration (CSBA). It's growing v fast and a lot of people are doing it instead of pure cs. feeds well into normal software engineering jobs along with product management and business analysis

gray charm
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oh wow okay, i had no clue abt the CSBA major… gonna check it out!!

whole bridge
cold quail
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good

grand drum