Caltech [$90k+] vs Columbia [$90k+] vs UCSD [full ride] CS/AI

goldbug
Sat, 05 Apr 2025 21:23:51 +0000

tsbna44:

I keep going back to @aunt_bea post 17

I shared a bunch of different examples of Caltech grads I know for whom the school worked. They are not all the same, and they did different things while they were there. Anecdotes are useful up to a point and I believe that her kid had a rough go there. I don’t think the school is for everyone. But it was actually a happy, affirming place for a lot of people that I know, and they are smart but not superhuman. Just high functioning. I wouldn’t send a kid with underdeveloped study skills (like my son) there. But I think for a lot of kids it’s Hogwarts.