#Looking For Affordable CS Schools

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Location/Region: I prefer a city or suburb, but not a requirement. I'm willing to travel anywhere in the US.

Major: Master's in Computer Science and possibly Bachelor's/Master's in Mathematics

GPA/Test Scores: Unweighted GPA: 4.0 (school doesn't do weighted), Currently tied for valedictorian out of ~450 students, projected SAT score (based on practice exams): 1500 +- 50

Curriculum: I'm looking for a very academically savvy college that has a very good program for CS and decently good program for math.

Size: I really don't care about the size, it can be 30 students a class to 400, it doesn't matter to me.

Costs: Will definitely be needing a lot of aid, at the current moment my parents will be able to pay at max $20k total (but that might change with the current political situation).

Schools You're Currently Looking At:
Current List:

  1. MIT
  2. Harvard
  3. Stanford
  4. CMU
  5. Cornell
  6. Princeton
  7. UW
  8. UW-B
  9. WSU
  10. UCCS

I have UW and UW-B listed because I live in Washington
I was additionally thinking of the UCs and GT, but OOS tuition 😢
Looking mainly for safeties/targets (currently have WSU and UCCS), but any suggestions are helpful!

Additional: I don't really care about like the culture or things like fraternities/sororities, I'm just heavily invested on the academic side. I also want schools that have good career programs like ACM, Career Club, etc. and/or lots of opportunities for internships/post-grad jobs.

pulsar hound
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GT is safety? Dayum

U could put U-M and UT Austin, UIUC as target/reaches

but for aid probably private schools would be better eg Princeton.

ASU, UArizona/Alabama, Purdue(maybe more on the target side) are good with merit

Also Univ of Waterloo, unbiased🗣️ if your Canadian it’s worth looking into based on your priorities

ember saddle
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I was thinking about putting down more higher up colleges like Princeton, Yale, and Caltech, but I feel like that make my list pretty unbalanced as it already is mostly reach schools

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I was thinking Purdue, if they're good with merit financial aid that would be awesome. I'll definitely look into them.

sturdy forge
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tbh u'd be set with uw either way

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And I'm worried it will only get more competitive because UW is about T10 in CS

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Cornell

pulsar hound
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They do scholarships a lot too

pulsar holly
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scholarships, esp for cs, are hard to come by since cs is competitive, and purdue is relatively cheap

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# ashen badge Cornell

We have a lot of consulting clubs and project teams. I also know friends literally just making their own apps n shit on the side
The aid is rlly good for most ppl, check NPC
The cs major is very flexible u can certainly double major cs and math in CAS
Ofc good job placement postgrad