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- From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
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- Subject: Re: Computer Science Programs
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.141541.29142@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 14:15:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.195612.5537@src.umd.edu>, tedwards@src.umd.edu (Thomas Grant Edwards) writes:
- |> 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.
- |>
- |> 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.
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- I should note then that the primary advantage that MIT has amongst the
- undergraduate schools is that it blows away all the others on this last
- point. That was, in fact, the deciding point when I decided to come here.
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- Jason W. Solinsky
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