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- From: tedwards@src.umd.edu (Thomas Grant Edwards)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,misc.education,soc.college
- Subject: Re: Computer Science Programs
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.195612.5537@src.umd.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 19:56:12 GMT
- Article-I.D.: src.1992Aug19.195612.5537
- References: <k1HePB1w164w@tosh.UUCP> <1992Aug14.230223.17066@athena.mit.edu> <ELM.92Aug15022615@terrorism.berkeley.edu>
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- Organization: Systems Research Center, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park
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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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- Of course, something else to consider is not only the quality of the
- theoretic education you get, but the amount of hands-on experience w.
- computer systems and research you get. While alot of people will
- consider undergraduate research as an unneccessary part of an education,
- the reality is that when you go looking for a job out of college
- w. no experience, you'll be in worse shape than someone who went to
- a slightly lesser-tier school (such as Johns Hopkins) but actually
- got to work w. a professor on a serious research project.
-
- If you _know_ you'll be going to grad school, then it might matter
- alot less.
-
- -Thomas
-