<p>@shinramen:</p>
<p>Tell them that they all tie for first for undergrad CS. I’d throw in Illinois and UDub and Stanford and MIT and CalTech and Harvey Mudd and Princeton GTech and Wisconsin as well. All tied for first.</p>
<p>BTW, this isn’t as ridiculous as it seems. USNews has 4 grad CS programs tied for #1.</p>
<p>In any case, it seems that your dad doesn’t understand, but each CS department’s strengths and culture (Illinois has a gigantic CS student body, UDub has a small one for a public, and the privates are going to be different from the publics in culture while Harvey Mudd is tiny, so has limited course offerings) as well as where you want to work after college makes a far, far greater difference.</p>