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

I can’t speak for UMD, but the highest scholarships at RPI are $30K per year. That would hit your number, but their high awards are almost all reserved for Rensselaer Medalists, a junior year high school award given to the top math and science student in that class at their HS (my son was a Rensselaer Medalist).

Nothing against Alabama, but I’d choose ISU every day for those dollars. It has long been a well respected engineering program with a National Lab. My uncle, an academic, department chair and private sector engineer with a Stanford PhD, actually said he felt ISU produced better practicing engineers in undergrad than Stanford. :flushed: