master list of colleges. which ones are hard/easy to get into?

Question

i want to transfer schools for computer science to to get the hell out of new jersey. here are the colleges in gre guide's top 100 list of computer science schools. which ones are hard and which ones are easy to get into?

o University of Texas – Austin
o University of Illinois – Urbana – Champaign
o University of Maryland
o Georgia Tech
o University of Arizona
o University of Virginia
o Ohio State University
o University of Pittsburgh
o Syracuse University
o University of Florida
o Michigan State University
o North Carolina State University
o Arizona State University
o Texas A & M University – College Station
o University of Kentucky
o Virginia Tech
o University of Kansas
o University of Alabama - Birmingham
o University of South Carolina
o Florida State University
o University of Oklahoma
o University of Missouri- Rolla
o Oklahoma State University
o Iowa State University

Answer 1

For Comp Sci look at Texas at Austin, Georgia Tech and Virginaia Tech if you can get in to those. Texas at Austin is a good one because of so many employers in the area. Although Id guess these are harder. Other than those, you may found those in southern states are easier to get into.

Also you may want to look into ones that have programs in hot fields like gaming, virtual worlds and genetics/bioinformatics.

Answer 2

I went to college to get an Outdoor Ed degree (it turned out) but got funneled into Natural Resources Mgmt by my advisor, an art professor. I hated it. Didn't know about the Outdoor Ed degree, so took a psych course and thought it was interesting and got a degree in it since I didn't know what else to do now that my dreams were gone. I seriously thought a long time about getting my Psych Masters and/or PhD, but ulitmately, I didn't love the field that much. So I took some aptitude tests, found out I was good at accounting and data processing and decided to pick the one that sounded more challenging to me. Got an associate degree in computers and was a computer programmer for 10 years. The psych degree really helped since the average programmer has the social skills of a 10 year old. I had to laugh when the Myers-Briggs tests got real popular in the computer and business world, since I could guess the results for all my managers and freaked them out. Got out of programming before the field crashed and burned and got a bunch of outdoor certs and was an outdoor guide for a few years, so finally got to live my dream. But my back couldn't take the abuse (turns out everyone in my family has a bad back), so went back to computer related stuff, but had always been interested in training and did computer programming training. Got tired of life on the road, so became an instructor at a community college and moved my way up to coordinator, program director and online distance learning administrator. Since I'm at an educational institution and have been for a number of years and plan to stay, I'm almost done with my Masters in Education (actually Training and Development), and am applying for jobs now. I'll probably stay where I am, but I'm willing to see what's out there now that I have a higher degree and have a few more choices. I've thought about getting my Ph.D but don't think it's needed since I want to do more technical stuff and train and teach, not do research.