UIUC vs Turing scholars at UT Austin for CS

Greymeer
Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:23:07 +0000

I’ve had kids that were recruited and accepted by Turing. I’ve been to it’s seminars met the profs… all that.

Basically the normal UT CS track is equivalent to the UIUC/Purdue/MD/UTD/Wisc track.

The Turing track is billed/promoted as being equivalent to a tippy top CS school or private/ivy league level… so think Stanford, MIT, CMU, UCB, GT, Princeton, Harvard, Cornell. Primarily this idea is rooted in that the avg Turing student having around a 1570 SAT. That’s the idea. Less than half of students offered Turing accept and are off to these other schools.

The advantage of Turing is being able to register early for classes, and initially having small classes with the best students. You also get honors dorms near the CS building.

I’ve seen some comments that getting internships is easier. Nah, not really. Everyone nowadays has multiple interviews and technical tests for internships. You need to be capable. Usually a Turing student already has a deep CS history even before entering the program, so they will naturally have an upper hand.