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<p>Would Stony Brook be affordable? If it is, that may be another good school for CS.</p>
<p>I would not consider RPI and RIT to be safeties; both consider “level of applicant’s interest”. Schools that do so are more likely to reject or waitlist high stats applicants who appear to be using them as safeties. Oddly for a state university, Stony Brook also considers “level of applicant’s interest”.</p>
<p>So the safety search might be harder than you anticipate.</p>