Good but not tippy-top student looking for CS matches/reasonable reaches

If you want to be under 40K and don’t forget some schools add surcharges, you really need to look at Arizona, UAH, Bama, MS. State. Check out Mizzou too as a neighboring state and then Misouri S&T. Mizzou - you’ll be way under because you’ll get OOS tuition waived + $2500 if i’m reading their chart correctly.

You may also look at Bradley - they will show you on their website your cost and they are aggressive. I did - their COA is low ($48K) and you’d get $20K off a year - so that’s $28K…a fine school.

The 3.74 is not high for CS but you have the college classes and a great ACT.

Some schools use weighted GPA; some like Arizona do not.

Also, most schools will recalc your GPA as they only use certain classes - so if your non-core classes were As…your GPA to the school may be lower. Or - if they were Bs/Cs, it could be higher.

Good luck.