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- From: idfriedm@hertz.uwaterloo.ca (id friedman)
- Subject: Re: Computer Science Programs
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <k1HePB1w164w@tosh.UUCP> <1992Aug14.230223.17066@athena.mit.edu> <ELM.92Aug15022615@terrorism.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:55:25 GMT
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- In article <ELM.92Aug15022615@terrorism.berkeley.edu> elm@cs.berkeley.edu writes:
- >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.
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- There are Canadian schools with a good reputation ( Univ. Waterloo,
- University of Toronto). I'm sure that there are many American schools which
- will fullfil your needs quite well aside from the five mentioned above.
- For example I don't see Cal-Tech, RPI, and other schools that may have
- good programs. Perhaps you can also go outside of North America.
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- There are also guides, such as Baron's, which rank schools in various
- grad. programs ( the rankings are debateable, but they are a useful
- starting point).
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- >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.
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- >ethan
- >--
- >+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- >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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