Advice on transferring?

ucbalumnus
Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:24:40 +0000

Was your high school elite in CS or STEM subjects? Remember that universities design their freshman / sophomore courses based on reasonable expectations of what entering students had in high school, so if you went to an elite high school, you may find the freshman / sophomore courses to be not very challenging anywhere.

UIUC is a good school for CS. Berkeley and Stanford do have a job recruiting advantage of being local to Silicon Valley computer companies, although UIUC is a common destination for those companies willing to send recruiters on airplanes.