CS major looking for targets/safeties

[fossil raft]

Location/Region: City/suburb, USA, can't be in a desert

Major: CS

GPA/Test Scores: 4.48 W, 4.0 UW, 1550 SAT

Curriculum: Don't really care

Size: Don't really care, I just don't want an extremely small school

Costs: I'm gonna need aid probably, I don't know how much (depends on FAFSA/scholarships.) I have a 224 PSAT/NMSQT so I’ll probably get that scholarship.

Schools You're Currently Looking At: My reaches are UT Austin, UMD, UIUC, most UCs, and Cal Poly SLO. I don’t really have any targets/safeties.

[next ridge]

do u mean ut austin or ut arlington

[fossil raft]

UT Austin

I’ll edit

[next ridge]

ok bet

i think purdue might be a safety/target for u

if ur in georgia, georgia tech might be a good target too

[rocky dragon]

purdue target

[lethal rampart]

NEU

Umass amherst

[digital nacelle]

Seconding Purdue as a target. UW-madison as well?

As far as safeties, Penn State, Arizona state (it's in Phoenix though which is kinda dessert), and Iowa State are great. The latter two give automatic scholarships, which is very nice.

I might also look into schools that give a full ride for nms

[earnest kiln]

Purdue is a target for CS with these stats?
(I know they're insanely good stats I just wanna know)

[next ridge]

most prolly a safety

[earnest kiln]

Oh shoot
adding purdue to my list then

[next ridge]

I got into Purdue and my stats aren’t as good as op

[earnest kiln]

N=1 but still thanks
I was worried cs was too impacted at Purdue to make it a safety

[next ridge]

I applied to engineering but I think cs and engineering are pretty similar

[earnest kiln]

Oh well I plan on doing engineering anyway

[next ridge]

what engineering

I’m doing ece

[earnest kiln]

Prob compE

[next ridge]

word

compE gang

[earnest kiln]

W

[rocky dragon]

ur prolly good but purdue cs oos is tough

[earnest kiln]

How tough
Like similar stats to OP OOS, what’s it looking like

Cause I don’t trust niche and collegevine

They’re giving me like 90-95% rates

[rocky dragon]

u would have to ask purdue lmao

i don’t know too well

this includes in state people as well though who are held to a lower standard

[earnest kiln]

That’s like about a target since I’m at the 75% for both ACT and GPA

[odd carbon]

Don’t give bad info bruh

@earnest kiln

Purdue will not be your safety pick something else as a safety

[earnest kiln]

I’ve been summoned

[odd carbon]

Purdue is not a safety for computer science

[earnest kiln]

I have 3 safeties already
I’m just looking for targets mostly

[odd carbon]

It’s a cross between a target and a reach

[earnest kiln]

I would like a safety for oos

Ah ok

[odd carbon]

ASU

lots of merit aid from ASU too

With your stats and all

@fossil raft

[earnest kiln]

Is that Arizona

[odd carbon]

Yes

[next ridge]

it isn’t a safety?

For that kind of stats

[odd carbon]

Nope

Purdue is extremely popular for CS, so although those stats helps they won’t make it a safety

[next ridge]

Oh

[odd carbon]

So many people apply to Purdue for CS, it’s an impacted and competitive major

[earnest kiln]

Looks like they’re ranked higher than my flagship
And you said they give really good aid?

Is there anywhere else that’s either target or safety for cs or engineering that gives good aid

[odd carbon]

Well

[odd carbon]

How much aid do you need

Like can you drop 20k a year

[earnest kiln]

I don’t know I haven’t really talked to my parents about it
But I doubt I’ll want to pay more than 20-25k, probably less

[odd carbon]

It’s somewhere in the 20k+-30k region depending on stats, I’m not really sure

You should go check out what the cost would look like for you and your fam