Anonymous wrote:Cal Poly SLO (hard admit for CS esp OOS) and Harvey Mudd (hard admit)

If you look at Harvey Mudd, look at Rose-Hulman too. Rose admit rates much higher than Mudd (useful if DS is shut out from the top 10), both schools considered outstanding in general engineering (incl. CS in that).

How about WPI? https://www.wpi.edu/academics/departments/computer-science

This list?



Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
#1 in Computer Science (tie)


Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
#1 in Computer Science (tie)


Stanford University
Stanford, CA
#1 in Computer Science (tie)


University of California--Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
#1 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL
#5 in Computer Science


Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
#6 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Washington
Seattle, WA
#6 in Computer Science (tie)


Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
#8 in Computer Science (tie)



Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
#8 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Texas--Austin
Austin, TX
#10 in Computer Science


California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
#11 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
#11 in Computer Science (tie)


Columbia University
New York, NY
#13 in Computer Science (tie)


University of California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
#13 in Computer Science (tie)



University of Wisconsin--Madison
Madison, WI
#13 in Computer Science (tie)

Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
#16 in Computer Science (tie)

University of California--San Diego
La Jolla, CA
#16 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Maryland--College Park
College Park, MD
#16 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
#19 in Computer Science


Purdue University--West Lafayette
West Lafayette, IN
#20 in Computer Science (tie)


Rice University
Houston, TX
#20 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Massachusetts--Amherst
Amherst, MA
#20 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
#20 in Computer Science (tie)


Yale University
New Haven, CT
#20 in Computer Science (tie)


Brown University
Providence, RI
#25 in Computer Science (tie)


Duke University
Durham, NC
#25 in Computer Science (tie)


Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
#25 in Computer Science (tie)


University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
#25 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Minnesota--Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
#29 in Computer Science


New York University
New York, NY
#30 in Computer Science (tie)


Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
#30 in Computer Science (tie)


Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
#30 in Computer Science (tie)



Pennsylvania State University--University Park
University Park, PA
#30 in Computer Science (tie)


University of California--Irvine
Irvine, CA
#30 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
#30 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
#30 in Computer Science (tie)


Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick
Piscataway, NJ
#37 in Computer Science (tie)


University of California--Davis
Davis, CA
#37 in Computer Science (tie)


University of California--Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
#37 in Computer Science (tie)

WashU of course. With all the 65% return in endowment and massive $$$ they'll be stealing star professors from Stanford, MIT, and Caltech in no time and the CS department will jump from #49 to #9 in no time. All the brightest kids are heading to STL now AS A FACT.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CU Boulder would be a safety. So would UPitt.

If he doesn't get into a good program, he should get a bunch of certs if he is a US Citizen. He can meet people at conventions, coding academies, internships, hackathons, etc.-he needs team skills for code reviews, pair programming, etc. If you are both grads, he may get bonus points for "legacy" status. Just make sure if he has a weak dept he is good at independent study.

Is CUBoulder really considered weak for CS? I think of it as a public Ivy in terms of overall reputation.

I don't know about "public ivy", but from research I've done, they appear to have a strong CS program

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cornell

Cornell is already ranked #5 in undergrad CS (USNWR).

OP was looking alternatives outside the top 10.

Did not realize it was ranked that high..

Anonymous wrote:Cornell

Cornell is already ranked #5 in undergrad CS (USNWR).

OP was looking alternatives outside the top 10.

Cornell

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CU Boulder would be a safety. So would UPitt.

If he doesn't get into a good program, he should get a bunch of certs if he is a US Citizen. He can meet people at conventions, coding academies, internships, hackathons, etc.-he needs team skills for code reviews, pair programming, etc. If you are both grads, he may get bonus points for "legacy" status. Just make sure if he has a weak dept he is good at independent study.

Is CUBoulder really considered weak for CS? I think of it as a public Ivy in terms of overall reputation.

Case Western

Cal Poly SLO (hard admit for CS esp OOS) and Harvey Mudd (hard admit)

Waterloo (but your kid must be self-directed and is absolutely sure of CS). Quant/FAANG/BigN hunt there. Not great, I hear, for quality of life but fantastic reputation/outcomes.

Waterloo!

Stevens, Rensselaer, Lehigh, yes to NC State, all good RoI

NC state