<p>Yes, I’d suggest Georgia Tech over Emory and Purdue over Notre Dame for a student interested in CS. However, neither would likely pass the parents’ prestige test.</p>
<p>The parental restriction of applying only to “top 20” (USNWR ranked) schools means that there are no safeties other than the default of community college. That is probably the biggest problem with the parental restrictions (unless both the student and parents are fine with community college, but it does not appear that the prestige-obsessed parents would find that acceptable).</p>