Help with computer science “match” schools?

Hello, as a fellow Junior with very similar stats, I would say the best resources for finding match schools are naviance and your councilors. I think this is especially important for public schools but applies to private schools too. In my experience, your councilor and naviance can generally tell you much more about your shot at a school than just an acceptance rate. For example, UNC, UT austin, UVA, and Purdue are considered reaches for CS oos normally, but after looking at naviance and talking to my counselor, I found out that UVA and purdue accept basically everyone from my range whereas UNC actually rejects more students than johns hopkins (I mention these schools because dozens of students from our school apply every year sp there is a decently sized database).

As for actual recommendations, I recommend looking at honors programs at schools like arizona and alabama, honors classes tend to have less people (albeit you will probably take very large courses as well), and cost less. These two schools are also very sunny.
I might recommend liberal arts colleges too, but these have very different environments compared to research universities. I’ve heard that people like the weather at U Richmond

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