Carnegie Mellon CS - Worried About Experience

idkName
Mon, 04 Apr 2016 21:23:34 +0000

Well CMU is easily the hardest CS school in US. In fact, it is harder than MIT and Caltech. In addition, MIT is general admission, not direct admission to CS program, so you can’t really compare MIT experience with CMU’s. Ultimately, deciding between Dartmouth and CMU determine on several factors:

1. Financial aid? Unless your family are rich, Dartmouth would offer you more money.

2. Academia or Industry? If you are not planning on going to grad school, CMU Is definitely a much better deal. Since their undergraduate degree would worth a lot more than Dartmouth. If you are going to grad school, the degree for undergraduate isn't really relevant later in life, and your GPA will suffer in CMU, which leads to worst grad school.

3. How devoted are you to CS? Dartmouth sucks in CS. If you what to be an expert in CS, CMU is definitely the place. However, in terms of general education, Dartmouth would educate you better and provide you with a better foundations overall.

4. Prestige? Dartmouth is ivy, but CMU is like MIT in the CS field.

5. How much free time? If you want to spend majority of your time studying for classes, CMU is the place. The class work will eat like majority of your hours. Dartmouth classes are nicer and more lenient.

In summary, as long as you put in the hard work, anywhere you go will be fine. You shouldn’t worry about it.