Help Me Decide (please): Northwestern University / Harvey Mudd / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

@IWannaHelp Northwestern has about twice as many engineering+CS students, or more, as HMC. By way of distance -Northwestern is far closer, and an easier to travel from to Silicon Valley than UIUC, Gtech, OR CMU. CMU is no larger than Northwestern, and ks also a private university. The fact is that Northwestern, while an excellent college by any standard, does not have an engineering program which matches CMU’s, UIUC’s, Gtech’s, and definitely not HMC’s.

My comments on graduate school are supported by the numbers, and by the amount of effort that Princeton puts into encouraging their students in activities that will enhance their chances at grad school, such as research assistants in the university, versus activities that enhance students’ chances in industry, namely internships.

I was wrong about MIT, though. They do send their students to industry, but they seem to have a different system of internship-jobs from other top engineering schools, and their students end up in jobs across the country.