Good Computer Science Programs

[Chronic321]

I'm looking for "safety" colleges for a CS major. I'm applying to MIT and Carnegie Mellon SCS as reaches but need to find some safeties. I have pretty good stats (1520 SAT, Hard Course load, etc..). RIT seems attractive, any other universities I should be looking at in the Northeast? Thanks.

 

[rutchtkim]

Cornell, Stevens Tech

 

[diskop]

Why do you wanna go to the Northeast? Come out west where it's nice and sunny.

 

[Spac3d]

I would put down University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign. They have an excellent computer science program. Michigan could also be another choice. I know its not Northeast... but I don't know many schools in that area.

Spac3d

 

[cchen]

Good luck with Carnegie Mellon. They accept like 100 people. It's a great program though. I got into it but I decided that I wasn't going to study CS, so I'm off to Columbia University instead.

Write a good essay, and hope that your teachers will write great recs for ya. Good luck!

 

[RichieZ]

Let me guess ur doing achieva, hense the "reach" term? Good look w/ MIT and Carnegie Mellon, I got wait listed and didn't get into their SCS. MIT rejected me outright, interview is tough.

 

[Chronic321]

The MIT interview was tough? I had it last Thursday, it seemed pretty relaxed.

 

[jaydee]

RIT is great for CS.