Best QuestBridge Schools for Computer Science

calipretty3
Sun, 25 Aug 2013 02:50:30 +0000

Hi, I’m a high school student currently enrolled on an early college program for my senior year. My family is low income (~$37k and going down), hispanic, and I’m planning on applying to the QuestBridge program this year. They connect high achieving low income student with top colleges. Now, not taking chances into consideration since my scores and extracurriculars are not that great (though I’m working part-time as an IT intern), I would like to hear your opinions about which of their partner schools have the best computer science/engineering programs/curriculums, since, thus far, I think I’ll be majoring in computer science or something very related (math/science is my hard and I’m taking CS classes in my community college).

So please share your thoughts about these schools, and please list the top 10 in your opinion:

Amherst College
Bowdoin College
Brown University
California Institute of Technology
Carleton College
Colorado College
Columbia University
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
Emory University
Grinnell College
Haverford College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
Oberlin College
Pomona College
Princeton University
Rice University
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
Trinity College
Tufts University
Chicago University of Chicago
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
Virginia University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Washington and Lee University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Williams College
Yale University

Now, I know Stanford, MIT, and Caltech might the top, but my chances of getting in are kind of slim. I’ll like to have more options. I’ll give preference to schools on the West since I believe being closer to Silicon Valley would be easier to land internships and jobs and also relocate since I’ve already know that that’s the where I need to head since IT jobs on my area not the best. Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks

Update: Sorry if posted on the wrong section, just saw the math/computer science section. Oops.