Advice on transferring?

ucbalumnus
Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:29:46 +0000

It really reads like you are getting the “grass is greener on the other side of the fence” type of feelings, even though you are at one of the top schools for CS in the US, and transferring may not make as big a difference as you appear to think it will make.

As far as what people think of your school, it is mainly what CS people think of it – they will be the ones making recruiting or graduate school decisions that may be affected by what school you attend.

As far as general school prestige goes, it does appear that people in the northeast generally have a higher opinion of private schools and a lower opinion of public schools than people in the midwest (IL, IN, MI, MN, WI), mid-Atlantic, California, or Texas. Probably because the northeast does not have as many top level public schools but does have a lot of top level private schools, while the other places have excellent flagship public schools (including UIUC).