Help me find some likely options?

ucbalumnus
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 06:39:12 +0000

You “safeties” probably are not, given that admission to the CS major is likely much more selective than the school overall (see a previous poster’s note about the CS major at Washington).

Yes, take a look at UCSC and SJSU if you want a less selective school near Silicon Valley and its numerous computer companies, and you can afford them at out-of-state prices.

There are other schools that are reasonably respectable for CS but not as difficult to get admitted to, like Stony Brook, UMass - Amherst, Virginia Tech, North Carolina State, Arizona State, Iowa State (look up the Regents’ Admission Index to see if you are an auto-admit), UC Riverside (see if you can sign up for the admission guarantee in June/July if your UC-weighted GPA is high enough), Oregon, and Oregon State.