MetroStyles
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A specific one? There are many.
I was thinking "UMass".
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A specific one? There are many.
I think if you are motivated, you can get a good education almost no matter where you go. The added value of the "top" schools is perhaps from the people you get to meet. Those fantastically interesting and brilliant people who make you realize how you are truly insignificant (in a good way).
of the ivies, i only like harvard, yale, princeton mit is the best though stanford and caltech are good, but too west coast and nouveau riche for me
i feel like undergrad education does not vary very much between schools, so name is the most important thing when choosing a college, the only exception being mit and caltech, which are pretty damn good at math/science otherwise, its harvard/princeton/yale/stanford don't bother with the other ivies, because at that point you are better off going to your state school for 120k less over 4 years, or getting a full scholarship to a well known but not "need-based aid" college, and working hard to get a good GPA
for graduate i totally agree... but undergrad? lol the thing is that if you are full scholarship at a wellknown but not top 10 undergrad college, you will definitely get preferential treatment... for example, i have a friend from high school at wake forest on full scholarship, and the school basically makes sure that he has all the best opportunities... another one of my friends at UNC has a similar package... and in no way do i think they have less opportunity than at an ivy, but they are paying 50k less per year and my friends at state school (UT Austin) got great internships that paid really well this summer, just having finished freshman year, and all the big companies go recruit there, from facebook to google to goldman to exxon, so i don't think they are lacking in opportunities at all finally, my friends from high school that went to harvard and stanford got crap internships or no internships at all, but at least they know it doesnt really matter since companies will hire them no matter what i got a decent internship but it certainly didnt pay as well as the ones my state school friends got, then again i go to a tiny liberal arts college in the middle of nowhere
Lol are you mad you didnt go to a good school? Im sorry
I picked Middlebury over a couple "lower" Ivies and I'm pretty happy with my decision. Small, elite LACs like amherst, williams, midd, swarthmore, and pomona should definitely not be overlooked compared to their bigger Ivy siblings. The small atmosphere certainly has some advantages.
Angrily responding to a thread from 2008 resurrected by a spambot? **** yeah!
I missed the boat in 2008.
CMU has the #1 CS dept. MIT/Caltech a close second.
I can't say that the ivies have bad CS programs, but when someone says, "I want to go to an ivy league school for computer science" my reaction is "huh?".