Top 10 versus Top 25

mathmom
Tue, 19 May 2009 16:50:38 +0000

mathson turned down number 1 (or 2 or 3 depending on the year), for number 24 (plus or minus one depending on the year.) For him the difference is that number 24 is much stronger in his major (computer science.) He hasn’t found the courses outside his interests (math and physics as well as cs) particularly interesting, but I think that is as much his failing as the school’s. The biggest difference is not the quality of the teaching or research, or the intelligence of the students - the biggest difference is in the culture of the two schools.