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- From: elm@cs.berkeley.edu (ethan miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,misc.education,soc.college
- Subject: Re: Computer Science Programs
- Date: 15 Aug 92 02:26:15
- Organization: Berkeley--Shaken, not Stirred
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- Message-ID: <ELM.92Aug15022615@terrorism.berkeley.edu>
- References: <k1HePB1w164w@tosh.UUCP> <1992Aug14.230223.17066@athena.mit.edu>
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- In-reply-to: solman@athena.mit.edu's message of 14 Aug 92 23:02:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.230223.17066@athena.mit.edu> solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
- =>If you plan on going to graduate school in CS, go to (in order) MIT,
- =>Stanford, CMU, UCB, or the University of Illinois at Urbana or don't
- =>think of it. Anything less than a good GPA and great recomendations
- =>from a second tier CS school (Ivy League, Caltech) and you probaly
- =>won't make it. If you're from a third tier school, forget it.
-
- Actually, I would put UCB above Stanford for sure, and perhaps ahead
- of CMU. The federal funding scandal has hurt Stanford, and CMU just
- lost three good professors (Rashing, Kung, and one other whose name
- escapes me). Of course, it depends on your area, too. Berkeley is
- probably tops in theory, while CMU has an advantage in robotics. The
- bottom line is that you should visit each school you're considering,
- as there are cultural differences between them. Remember that even
- the hardest working grad student will spend more than 20 hours/week
- awake and outside the lab (much more than that in most cases). Pick
- somewhere you'll be happy for five years.
-
- ethan
- --
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- ethan miller--cs grad student | "Anybody not wearing 2000000 sunblock's
- elm@cs.berkeley.edu | gonna have a REALLY bad day. GET IT?"
- #include <std/disclaimer.h> | -- Sarah Connor, _Terminator 2_
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