What are the best colleges for computer science?

sakky
Wed, 20 Jul 2005 15:58:51 +0000

I’ve met several others who turned down higher-ranked overall schools like Princeton, MIT, Caltech, Rice, Northwestern, Cornell, etc. for CS at CMU.



What I meant to say is that only a minority of people would turn down Harvard, or another highly ranked school, for a place like Illinois or CMU without extenuating circumstances (like merit scholarships). Or, put another way, I would argue that there are probably more people at CMU, even in SCS, who would rather be going to Harvard but didn’t get in, than there are people at Harvard who would rather be at CMU (even at SCS). Or, if right now, I offered a free transfer to Harvard to some CMU SCS people, I think a lot of them (not all, but a lot) would take it. If I went to Harvard and I offered them a free transfer to SCS, I don’t think as many people would be taking it.