<p>I want to major in computer engineering and I was considering U Chicago apart from the IVY list.
So does U Chicago have a good computer engineering program?
Which 1’s tougher to get in?? UC Berkeley or Cornell or U Chicago??
Any idea?</p>
<p>P:S-I am an international applicant.My high school does not offer foreign language study,no AP systems available in any of the high schools here and also no facility for community service.
Despite of the above facts,I have a fair number of EC’s
1)Member of my high school football and throwball team.Best dodgeball player
2)Been the high school Prefect
3)Leader of the Scouts & Guides’s Guides team
4)Gold medalist in inter school dance competition
5)Learnt music(vocalist) for 7years(done 16 stage shows) & and dance for 10years(12 stage shows)
6)Went to the slums,tutored math and science to underprivileged kids 4hours daily(including weekends)
7)Nominated for the Math & Chemistry Olympiad
8)Founder of the Bird club in my society.Built a huge dome shaped shelter for the birds to live in,out of my own scholarship expense.</p>
<p>Expecting a good SAT score.Above 700 in CR & Writing and 750+ in Math.</p>
<p>So now back into crux,any chances for U Chicago?</p>
<p>They are all in the same ballpark for non-Californians, but given your intended major and the fact that you’re an international, I would think Berkeley is even tougher than Cornell or Chicago. </p>
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<p>Chicago’s academic programs have a theoretical orientation. You need to understand the Common Core and the American concept of liberal education, which Chicago takes very seriously. In computing, expect the emphasis to be on computer science.</p>
<p>Chicago has a very good CS department and outstanding undergraduate mathematics. If you want a solid grounding in the mathematical and logical fundamentals of computing, you like the Common Core approach, and the school is otherwise a good fit, then it’s a great choice. Berkeley and Cornell have top 10 computer science departments, so they might be even better choices if you have a hands-on, engineering bent. Berkeley has the added advantage of proximity to Silicon Valley firms.</p>
<p>Computing aside, Chicago or Cornell will give you smaller classes, a better shot at aid if you need it, and student bodies drawn from all over the USA. Compared to Berkeley, I think you’d be less likely to have classes led by teaching assistants, and more likely to get significant feedback from professors (in classroom discussions and written assignments), starting in year 1.</p>
<p>Apply to all 3 (and some less selective schools) then weigh your options after results are in. All 3 are excellent schools.</p>
<p>“Chicago has a very good CS department and outstanding undergraduate mathematics.” @tk21769,that casts a doubt on @drusba’s comment.Duhh again confused =</p>
<p>I checked out the world ranking for top 100 best engineering colleges for Computer Engineering and U Chicago made it to the list WHEREAS when I went through an overall information of U Chicago in their official website and on Wikipedia,they did not mention “engineering” in their academic curricula.</p>
<p>Hence the confusion.</p>
<p>I’m also applying USC,Carnegie and UIUC apart from the IVIES & UCB.
Though I would be more than happy if I get Columbia or even Cornell.</p>
<p>Again, UChicago does not have engineering. Also understand that computer science (mentioned above) is not computer engineering and many colleges that have no engineering have computer science. Those are different programs even at colleges that have both. Computer engineering is far more akin to electrical engineering than it is to computer science.</p>
<p>Right, Chicago does not have engineering (yet). As drusba stated, it also has no undergraduate business (nor or any other pre-professional undergraduate degree programs.) </p>
<p>I don’t know if any of the new program’s “thematic areas” will be related to computing. If you definitely want computer engineering, not computer science, better look elsewhere. Even if you’re open to majoring in CS, you should research Chicago’s approach to undergraduate education. More than half your courses there would be outside your major.</p>
<p>"Also understand that computer science (mentioned above) is not computer engineering and many colleges that have no engineering have computer science. "
Now I understood where did that come from.In India,we call it computer engineering or computer science engineering,and its akin in terms of meaning here.Hence…</p>
<p>I want to pursue computer engineering and not bachelor of science or computer science.
Does,the rest of the college names above have a good computer engineering program??</p>
<p>And also,could you mention few more good one’s ???. i.e.neither too reach nor too average.</p>
<p>Look at the [Association</a> of Independent Technological Universities: AITU](<a href=“http://theaitu.org%5DAssociation”>http://theaitu.org) schools too. Most of them have computer engineering.</p>