Colleges for me?

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<p>Must have:

  • nice campus, as in a pretty quad area
  • great student life and traditions, but little/no greek life
  • somewhat of an intellectual environment</p>

<p>Like to have:

  • Jewish life, Hillel
  • small/medium school
  • located in a good area
  • good math/science programs</p>

<p>Cannot have:

  • major social exclusivity
  • major drug/alcohol scene</p>

<p>I guess you could say I’m kind of quirky, and I want to study computer science.</p>

<p>SAT score: 2320. Looking for safeties, matches, and reaches.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>Consider Carnegie Mellon. It’s highly selective- so admissions isn’t predictable but if your GPA is as good as your scores it would be a possible “match”. It has a Hillel which is affiliated with other local colleges as well- makes you part of a larger Jewish community.</p>

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<p>There are many schools that offer good CS departments, but you eliminate a lot of them if you don’t want a large research universities. What is small to you, 2,000 and medium 6,000 or 10,000 if large is 20,000 plus? What is your gpa? What schools do you already like? What are you able to pay?</p>

<p>Carnegie Mellon is never a match anyone for the CS major, it is very selective to get into School of Computer Science, I think only 8% were admitted in last published data. The admitted student mean 50% had extremely high SAT’s and top 5% of class. But it has a sterling reputation for CS, and fits your criteria pretty well.</p>

<p>My daughter studied CS at Brown Uni, which has a really good department and she is a 5th year grad student now. The department is small and personal, the school meets your criteria, but again a reach. Unlike CM, you don’t have to be accepted to the department to gain admission to the school. You can major in whatever you if admitted.</p>

<p>There’s Harvey Mudd, meets many requirements. Great school, very selective, tough program, you will also have a liberal arts minor. Only 800 students, but you are part of the consortium of 5 adjacent colleges, so a 5,000 population and cross registration allowed.
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<p>For more match and safeties, I don’t know a lot about smaller schools for CS but you might start by looking at this list:
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<p>Some research uni’s that seem large often have small undergrad populations, like UofC with just around 4,000. I think the research uni’s are going to have the better programs in general, and tech schools.</p>

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<p>^ good point about the selectivity of CS at CMU. I didn’t say it as eloquently, but meant that the OP’s scores are in the range of accepted applicants, but it is never predictable.
Oberlin is another possible choice for CS. Again, it is selective so I won’t predict admission.</p>

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<p>Muhlenberg would be a great safety. Brandeis more of a match.</p>