UC vs. SUNY Stony Brook

mikemac
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:49:08 +0000

There is absolutely no reason to go to a UC school as an OOS resident, especially when you are majoring in a subject easily quantified like CS.

When you are a liberal-arts major future employers have to make a guess for the large part about your abilities. That is a big reason why there is stronger demand for liberal-arts majors from top-ranked colleges compared to those farther down the list.

But any employer can easily and accurately assess your CS abilities in a few hours of interviews. Furthermore there is no magic they have at the UCs that lets them teach the subject better than it can be taught elsewhere.

If your parents have an extra $200K they’d like to donate to the UC college system, then as a CA resident I thank them for their gift. If they and you are taking out loans to do it then I think that is just insane. You can get the same large classes and impersonal environment for much less elsewhere.