<p>That’s very true; the overall reputation of UChicago for CS is, from what I’ve heard, very questionable. Also, most CS majors can’t help the people taking CS for econ because nobody learns any basic Java or R or anything else people will actually expect you to know. There’s some coding-type student culture (see hack@uchicago, for example), but I wouldn’t even pretend that UChicago gives the same sort of actual programming background as MIT. I think UChicago’s first course in CS for majors being taught in a functional language and the most well-known CS professor teaching combinatorics and algorithms summarize the program’s internal biases pretty well. LordCthulhu sounds suitably disdainful of usefulness to be a good fit for the program.</p>