Applied for transfer this cycle, unfortunately got rejected from a good amount of my top choices and now I’m worried about my current choices: Purdue for Computer Science and Brown for Computer Science.
Mainly worried about placement into Unicorn/Fortune500/FAANG as Purdue is a target top 20 while Brown is not but it is an ivy and pretty okay for CS (on par with Duke, NU, USC, UPenn, and Purdue, etc.)
What do you all think I should do? If you are CS majors, where would you go
Additionally, also considering USC and Northwestern (if they give me an acceptance soon lol)
Is the budget an issue? Are they both affordable? Are they both affordable without taking on loans, or at least without taking on loans beyond the federally subsidized amounts?
You are looking at two very good choices. If both are affordable, or actually if either is affordable, then I would not be concerned about any other schools that you didn’t get into. You are in at two great schools, and you can only attend one at a time.
Picking between the two of them could be difficult IMHO.
Purdue is better specifically for CS. Unless Brown is cheaper I would go with Purdue.
Personally, they are both affordable. I agree with you that its pretty difficult, they both are relatively good for computer science and I have no idea what I should do atp.
Will one of them be significantly more accepting of transfer credit from your current school (and AP/IB/etc. credit if you have it) than the other? If your prior courses do not fulfill lower level requirements for your major at the new college, then you may have to take many “catch up” courses at the new college, possibly delaying graduation or limiting the number of upper level courses and electives you may be able to take.
I believe you may be under-regarding Brown’s CS program and perhaps over-regarding Purdue’s CS program.
Could totally true, I truly don’t know what I should pick since I don’t know much about how good (or bad) either of them are in terms of what I want out of college… 
its just a bit difficult because some say brown cs is one of the best and that purdue is mid or vice a versa
Brown is very flexible for all majors, including CS.
Here is their requirements for their major (Brown calls it a concentration). Note that you can have either a Bachelor or Arts degree Brown calls it an AB) degree or a Bachelor of Science degree (Brown calls it a ScB).
I don’t think there’s a bad choice.
But I don’t think FAANG should be a goal - because some are laying off (not hiring) and I think you can go to most any public and get hired by a Fortune 500.
Obviously, these are two different schools in two different environments.
I’d choose the one that fits me best.
Both will lead you to success in life.
Good luck.
And here is a list of Brown’s courses for the semester that just ended. Type CSCI into the top box to see the CS courses. To see other semesters, change the appropriate drop-down box.
As a somewhat smaller school, Brown will rotate some upper level classes and won’t offer all classes every semester or every year.
Gotcha, these match about what CS curriculum is, at least for higher level classes!
If both cost the same, I would go with Brown because it has more resources per capita of all sorts for students. (Even if Purdue is well-funded, it can’t beat undergrad resources&support at an Ivy such as Brown.)
I have heard that Brown students get CS jobs too 
At these firms, and many more.
I guess my question is…where are you transferring from and why?
Brown and Purdue are both excellent colleges for different reasons. Assuming the price is not an issue at either, pick the one YOU like the best. That’s not something we can determine. That is on you.
I don’t think for academics Purdue has any less resources. But overall for housing and other stuff that maybe true.
Brown is a very different school from a social-environmental standpoint. Both are excellent institutions and the computer science programs will get you jobs at where you are looking. However, Brown will feel like a smaller school. Purdue has the big sports. I think you should make your decision on the qualitative aspects of each school that will affect how you enjoy the rest of your college years.
Correct - I indeed meant for everything else 
@masterofstorage : have you visited? Have you explored the curriculum at both - CS is likely to only be about 50-60% classes you take at this point so are you interested in anything else? Would you be living on campus at Brown/is housing available to sophomore transfers at Purdue should you wish it? How important are spectator sports to you?
I think CS at both is great so you should decide based on all other factors.
Which one most appeals to you as a student? They are both excellent schools and there isn’t a wrong choice.
I spent a lot of time in technical leadership at two FAANGs, conducted well over 100 interviews and I can tell you unequivocally that nobody would have cared one bit about whether you went to Brown or Purdue. People in my last team had degrees from MIT, CalTech, UC Hayward (now east bay), NC State, Waterloo, SJSU, MS&T, SUNY Binghamton, RIT, and more. The common denominator was that they were all great engineers or coders and that was all that mattered.
