What college should I choose as an Engineering major?

collegebownd
Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:01:19 +0000

AnonymousCarrot:

No luck with SNU, KAIST, POSTECH, etc?

Unfortunately, no… I guess I was not considered to be smart enough for their standards.

Is going to a graduate school from Cal Poly just as easy as going to a graduate school from UW? I wasn’t sure if picking Cal Poly over UW would be advantageous for going to a graduate school since Cal Poly is not really a research school.

Also, I got waitlisted at Berkeley, but do you think it’s worth to pay a similar cost of attendance as UCSD for Berkeley, in case I get it?

Only you can actually answer that question. Clearly, a Berkeley undergraduate degree in CS (with a strong GPA) carries a lot of weight. But it also carries a lot of debt, it seems in your case. I honestly believe that if you 1) perform strongly at any of these schools you should have not problem getting jobs or go for a master’s degree, and if you 2) accrue some research experience along the way (esp. with someone well known in the area you’ll be working on), it should not be a problem to shoot for Ph.D. afterwards, either.