Obviously the schools mentioned and some not mentioned ie. (Carnegie Mellon, M.I.T, U.C. Berkley, Stanford) are top notch... but they are also very difficult schools to get into. Not impossible but very difficult even for the top 1% of High School graduates. For example,, M.I.T.'s (overall) acceptance rate has fallen to under 9% and Stanford is a staggerging 7%. Carnegie Mellon and R.I.T a bit higher with accpetance rates of roughly 33% and 65% , respectively. Berkley falls somewhere around the 20% range.
Some good news if you get into M.I.T. is their Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program(UROP). Considering base tuition for 2010-2011 was...
Undergraduate Tuition and Living Expenses
Nine months' tuition and fees for 2010–2011 is $39,212. Additionally, undergraduate room and board is approximately $11,234, dependent on the student's housing and dining arrangements. Books and personal expenses are about $2,764.
http://www.technologyreview.com/article/20966/
Although undergraduate tuition and fees at MIT are going up 4
percent, to $36,390, for 2008-'09, many parents will find sending
their children to the Institute less financially stressful. In
fact, nearly 30 percent will not have to pay any tuition at all.
Students from families earning less than $75,000 a year and with
typical assets will have all tuition covered by some combination
of MIT scholarships, federal and state grants, and outside
scholarships. What's more, those students will no longer be
expected to take out loans to cover nontuition expenses. A student
participating in MIT's paid Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Program (UROP) every semester would be able to graduate with no
debt
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Other Colleges I liked for CompSci. (But didn't attend) Columbia University, Northeastern University, Boston University. [Regardless of their rankings]
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