#targets for math

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livid raptor
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Are you out of state for UC Berkeley or UIUC? If so, you should take those 2 out as they give little to no financial aid to OOS students. If you're OOS for Michigan they do give decent aid but depending on your budget, it most likely not be what you'd want.

Do yourself a favor and make sure you do the Net Price Calculator for each school. It gives you a good idea on the potential cost it could be after aid based on your finances.

As for targets, where exactly do you reside in your state? For a student needing aid, it's generally a good idea to look at more state schools in your state as a target. Generally speaking, almost any good university is going to have a good math program. For example, if you live in NY, schools like Stony Brook, Buffalo, Binghamton, and Albany are all good choices for mathematics.

half cave
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heads up ivies are all radically different

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all potentially different environment

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and actual majors may not be the most impressive ever just by merit of being an ivy

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you might not like columbia cause it has a very strong humanities core curriculum, same with uchicago

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brown (don't quote me) isn't too too well known for math/cs but i'd defer to a more credible source

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i'll just throw cwru out there as a high target low reach school, not sure specifically about math or cs though so ask @shut spire (cs major)

shut spire
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With those stats its a toss up just because cwru loves to yield protect

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Definitely qualified to get in but you might run into the issue of overqualification

half cave
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i've heard in the past northeastern falls into that high target low reach range and from what i've heard is sufficiently "stemmy" (i have a friend doing computer engineering there), can't say anything about math but cs is atleast something it's somewhat known for

shut spire
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Northeastern, atleast stem wise, is known predominantly for its co ops

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Cwru is similar in that regard

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They put a lot of funding into it and a lot of emphasis on co ops and outside of the classroom activities like that

half cave
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hopefully a good sign for op

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RPI is also good from what i've heard? it's a pretty co-op stem heavy school, i wanna say its right in the target range and i hear they give some fat merit aid but idk

shut spire
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On that note you could also add RIT to the list they are similarly a very co op, stem heavy school

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RIT you are required to do them to graduate though

half cave
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don't know exactly but maybe santa clara could fall close to the high safety to target category? i hear they do give some fat merit aid but i dont know how well respected theri math and cs departments are

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those are majors that subconsciously appear when i think of scu so maybe it's worth looking into

nocturne fable
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speaking of ivies, princeton is the mecca for maths

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just saying

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also very generous with aid

vale dome
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I think Brown has one of the highest post-grad salaries for cs

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Math is really good for undergrad all of our professors are really good at teaching

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And we have the open curriculum so you can make your courseload as stem-heavy as you want (or more to humanities)

half cave
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cant believe i forgot to mention the open curriculum

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in my world crazy frog is just regular frog