Suggestions for safety/match for computer science

evergreen5
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:51:50 +0000

Take a good look at Santa Clara (SCU). Has CS and CSE, in Silicon Valley, conveniently located right next to the San Jose airport. Has palm trees. It is a low match rather than a safety, as it does a fair bit of yield protection - strongly considers demonstrated interest. It is Jesuit, with about 50% of the students being Catholic. The NPC includes a merit estimate, though I don’t know how accurate that is. The merit amounts seem to vary quite a bit among high-stats students, from large amounts to small amounts to nearly nothing.

While it is currently ranked in USNews as #1 Regional West, it might make the jump from regional to the national university list the next time the Carnegie classifications are updated and subsequently taken into account by USNews (due to a change in the definitions of the classifications).