Caltech vs. Carnegie Mellon CIT

RacinReaver
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:31:24 +0000

I’m surprised I didn’t notice this thread a while back. From my experience as an undergrad at CMU and a grad at Caltech, I’d have chosen CMU again in a heartbeat. I felt Pittsburgh was a way better college town (Pasadena sucks and public transit is a hassle to access unlike at CMU where you’re on the main road for the city), CMU is a tech-focused school without being overbearingly so. CS lounger type kids seem to be a lot more of the norm here than at CMU, and I definitely think there’s a broader type of engineer at CMU.

Finally, the classes at CMU were about a billion times better taught. If nothing else, homeworks were reasonable, lectures worth going to, and recitation sections weren’t solely there for undergrads to try and worm answers out of TAs because they just wanted to get through the homework and nothing more.