CompSci: MIT/Stanford/Berkeley vs UIUC/UWashington

iamsamiam
Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:23:22 +0000

I am a sophmore in hs, and am set on majoring in computer science

In CS, there are, from my impression, two tiers that I am looking at:
Stanford/Berkeley
and
Illinois (urbana-champ)/UWashington

My question is: Seeing how Illinois and Washington are significantly cheaper and easier to get into than the top tier schools, what are the major advantages of going to Stanford or Berkeley? What is the advantage of being near Silicon Valley? Are there significantly more opportunities?

Thanks so much! :D