Rice vs. Stanford

RML
Sat, 28 Jul 2012 02:05:35 +0000

If you’re applying to Stanford, I would suggest that you also apply to Berkeley as a fallback. Both Stanford and Rice are more selective than Berkeley, but Berkeley’s CS is just as good as Stanford’s. I would also suggest that you apply to CMU. For CS, go for those schools with the highest rank, because I think the top employers are “monitoring” their graduates. Rice is special and the campus is beautiful. The students are also quite smart. But CS at Rice isn’t a top 10 program yet.