SCS vs Columbia Fu

zeugma
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:37:49 +0000

So I’ve gotten into Carnegie Mellon and Columbia Fu SEAS (and several others as well, but these are my top choices). I’m interested in majoring in computer science/engineering. While I know that job prospects are about the same, CMU seems to be more “hardcore engineering” while Fu is more theoretical, with liberal arts mixed in.

I’ve always been interested in the arts—photography and music especially, but I would be quite happy if I didn’t have to take many humanities courses other than freshman writing (but I don’t despise the humanities—I did take AP English Language). I’ve been to NYC and Columbia numerous times and loved it. Whenever I was on campus I felt as though I’d be so happy to go to college there.

On the flipside, I’ve never been anywhere between NYC and Chicago, though, so I don’t know much about Pittsburgh. I know CMU won the DARPA Urban Challenge, I know they have awesome robotics programs, I know their graduates get picked up by Intel and Google and Amazon. I applied to CMU because MIT was my favorite school in the world.

How will I ever choose?