Penn M&T vs. CMU SCS

fortunate2015
Sat, 28 Mar 2015 16:16:59 +0000

Hi everyone,

(This is my first post on CC!) I was fortunate enough to be admitted by both Penn M&T (likely letter) and the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. My career interests are mainly in computer science and possibly physics/math (the latter would be academia/research careers). Additionally, I have become less interested in business since I originally decided to apply to M&T.

However, while it may seem that because I am not very interested in business, M&T would not be a good idea for me, I still want to consider M&T, as it is a very prestigious program providing many resources to its students.

With this in mind, I would greatly appreciate if you could give me a comparison between the academics at the two schools, mainly in computer science; and/or the research opportunities at the two schools, in computer science/physics/math. Also, is there a high success rate of transferring from M&T to other top schools, such as MIT/Stanford/Harvard?

Thanks so much for your help!