Dream School VS State School

muffincakes
Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:51:47 +0000

U of I and Cal Poly for Computer Science. U of I is ranked 5th (higher than even UCLA/UCSD) while Cal Poly is nonexistant on rankings. As much as I want to believe that rankings don’t mean much, i think the gap is pretty big here… I think a lot of other CA kids in CS are also looking at U of I because the UCs were harsh this year.

Then again it is not like Cal Poly is an awful school to be at, I know plenty of successful people who have come out of CP. I know even more successful people out of U of I (started companies, exited, started another.) The lines blur and I don’t know where I would be happier at!