<p>CSmajor5, why would you say something like this?</p>
<p>shouldn’t you be discussing the specific Engineering Department before you make such conclusions?</p>
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<p>lucky, yes, I see what is important to you when choosing a college to attend:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1064335159-post11.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1064335159-post11.html</a></p>
<p>CSmajor, Computer Science, your major in graduate school, has now been moved from the Engineering rankings to the Science Rankings by USNWR. </p>
<p>Here are the recently released Computer Science Graduate School Rankings by USNWR. I see that your current school Georgia Tech is in the top 10. Congratutions.</p>
<p>However, I am really sorry that your school has to be second fiddle to one of the Ivy League schools that you said aren’t known for their engineering:</p>
<p>[Rankings</a> - Computer Science - Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-computer-science-schools/rankings]Rankings”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-computer-science-schools/rankings)</p>
<p>1 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA Enter your zip 5.0<br>
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Enter your zip 5.0<br>
1 Stanford University Stanford, CA Enter your zip 5.0<br>
1 University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA Enter your zip 5.0<br>
5 Cornell University Ithaca, NY Enter your zip 4.6<br>
5 University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL Enter your zip 4.6<br>
7 University of Washington Seattle, WA Enter your zip 4.5<br>
**8 Princeton University Princeton, NJ Enter your zip 4.4 **
8 University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX Enter your zip 4.4<br>
10 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA Enter your zip 4.3<br>
11 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA Enter your zip 4.2<br>
11 University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI Enter your zip 4.2<br>
13 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI Enter your zip 4.1<br>
14 University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Enter your zip 4.0<br>
14 University of California–San Diego La Jolla, CA Enter your zip 4.0<br>
14 University of Maryland–College Park College Park, MD Enter your zip 4.0<br>
17 Columbia University New York, NY Enter your zip 3.9<br>
17 Harvard University Cambridge, MA Enter your zip 3.9<br>
17 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Enter your zip 3.9<br>
20 Brown University Providence, RI Enter your zip 3.7<br>
20 Purdue University–West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN Enter your zip 3.7<br>
20 Rice University Houston, TX Enter your zip 3.7<br>
20 University of Massachusetts–Amherst Amherst, MA Enter your zip 3.7<br>
20 University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC Enter your zip 3.7<br>
20 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA Enter your zip 3.7</p>
<p>^hey, that’s not fair, thought you could only argue about princeton, not my love of mexican food. But since you poststalked you realize I’m going to CMU now filled with that terrible “taco meat”. If it’s any consolation I didn’t like CMU over Princeton for the food (I don’t know ya’lls food for one). It’s the great engineering and computer science. (Also is that really one of my worst posts you could find?)</p>
<p>Yeah boneh3ead, Rice is pretty sweet. The campus is wonderful. Great place and Houston is an awesome city after the muggyness. I’m wondering about Tulane because it just kept coming up in colleges for me.</p>
<p>lucky, I think that the fact that the food served at the particular college is one of your primary criteria for choosing your college says a lot about you, don’t you think?</p>
<p>In that same thread, my next post is that I’m joking. Obviously I’m going to the school with the cruddiest food so it’s not a big deal. Just a side note cause others were talking about mexican food at those schools. Man, post stalk better. I was also a Gates finalist and otherwise have a full ride to my school of choice but let’s ignore that.</p>
<p>Instead, let’s focus on that list you just gave where Carnegie (my school) is in the #1 with MIT and Stanford. Take a moment…bask. Ahhhh #1.</p>
<p>I think it says plenty of good things about him, as I doubt he really chose his college based on Mexican food. Either way, just stop with the ad hominems. It is getting old and distracts from the topic at hand.</p>
<p>john,
we’ll keep an eye out for you over here.
welcome to the list.
congrats.</p>
<p>p.s. don’t dis good mexican food.</p>
<p>yes, lucky, it appears that Carnegie Mellon is regarded among the best, if not the best, of computer science programs in the country. Congratulations!</p>
<p>rocketDA, are you sure that you want to be saying this?</p>
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<p>So the way I figure it large schools are better at engineering in equipment and research opportunity. Still, smaller schools can provide better teaching with better teacher ratios (leaving out teachers going to larger universities). So it depends on you really, do you require the small close class? Is it the only way you figure you’ll be able to do it? Do you get lost easily in big classes? Then maybe a smaller school would help you get the degree better. Otherwise the large school will be great.</p>
<p>Lol. I see why people in this thread are flaming you. Actually now, I doubt you even attend Princeton. If a little twit flaming ■■■■■ like you can go to princeton, I feel sorry for people who are getting same education at princeton since they would feel cheated out of their tuition money to allow someone like you to receive same level of degree with them. </p>
<p>Well if you think princeton is so great engineer school, why don’t you compare industrial, biomedical, electrical, civil, mechanical, electrical, material, and aerospace engineer program ranking while you are at it. Only good engineer program I see at Princeton is chemE. Also, if you are so adhere/believe the usnews college ranking to be most correct college ranking system, you shouldn’t attend princeton since it’s not even in top 10 engineer program.</p>
<p>john,
dude, bro, you are totally missing the picture.
it’d be prudent to just stop talking.
yes, i stand by my words you have quoted me on.</p>
<p>the thing is, this guy can keep going on for 10 more pages on princeton</p>
<p>CSmajor, so what happened, even in your own major, Computer Science, Princeton is ranked higher than your school, Georgia Tech?</p>
<p>CSmajor, lets talk Chemical Engineering, since that is the area that I received my degree from Princeton in.</p>
<p>Princeton ChE has been ranked in the top 10 in the country for at least the last 40 years, with many in the top 3 and several as the #1 ChE school in the country.</p>
<p>At the time I attended it was ranked #1 in the country and Princeton Undergraduate overall was also ranked #1 in the country.</p>
<p>Choosing over MIT, CalTech, Stanford, and certainly your school Georgia Tech in ChE?..sure no problem. As mentioned before most of my ChE. classmates turned down MIT for Princeton.</p>
<p>And how was the quality of ChE’s that Princeton turned out?</p>
<p>We were second to none.</p>
<p>Even now Princeton is ranked #6 in the country in ChE. I would imagine that current Princeton ChE’'s are second to none.</p>
<p>So why go to a another school if you can go to the best ChE department in the country and also become a lot more well rounded by taking classes in top 5 departments with the top professors in the country?</p>
<p>Physics classes?..sure #1 in the country
Math classes?..sure #1 in the country
Economics classes?..sure #1 in the country</p>
<p>how about History or Political Science classes…sure both #1 in the Country.</p>
<p>However, lets just take a look at the quality of faculty in the Chemical Engineering department, because this should say something about the quality of ChE’s that they turn out, don’t you think?</p>
<p>here we have the Universities where the Princeton ChE FACULTY obtained their degrees:</p>
<p>MIT - 5
CalTech - 3
Stanford - 2
Cambridge (UK) - 2
Harvard - 2
Princeton - 1
UC Berkeley - 1
Carnegie Mellon - 1
Minnesota - 1
Wisconsin - 1
Michigan - 1
Northwestern - 1
Indian Institute of Technology -1</p>
<p>total 22 faculty members in ChE Department</p>
<p>So are you telling me that a top rated department such as Princeton ChE with such top faculty is not going to turn out ChE’s with the highest level of abilities and training?</p>
<p>nonsense.</p>
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<p>rocket and what picture am I missing?</p>
<p>this is what you posted:</p>
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<p>and this is how I responded:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1064673531-post156.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1064673531-post156.html</a></p>
<p>alright.
so johnadams12, i am no chemE but i want to see what level you, as a princeton chemE grad student, are prepared to.</p>
<p>what classes are you currently taking? what does your research entail?</p>
<p>if we have to duke this out the good ol’ fashion way, awesome.</p>
<p>rocket, as I have previously stated I graduated from Princeton BSChE a long time ago. You can review this by reading my historical posts. The only laboratory research that I did in undergraduate school was under one of the top engineering professors in that field in the world for my senior thesis. The research was published together with the Professor and a graduate student and to date, is still referenced in other research material.</p>
<p>so stop your nonsense.</p>
<p>there is no “duking” it out when you insult the Princeton ChE department by making the outlandish comments that you have made, particularly when almost 40% of the current Princeton ChE faculty received their degrees from the very same schools, MIT, Stanford and CalTech that you said would send the Princeton ChE’s with their “tail between their legs” and “would own them”. Notice that your school, the technical college named Harvery Mudd is not even mentioned here, because in the ChE arena it is not even a tiny spot when compared to Princeton, MIT, Stanford and CalTech.</p>
<p>“Notice that your school, the technical college named Harvery Mudd is not even mentioned here, because in the ChE arena it is not even a tiny spot when compared to Princeton, MIT, Stanford and CalTech.”</p>
<p>Well, for starters, we don’t even have a ChemE major. We have a General Engineering major.</p>
<p>“…particularly when more than one third of the current faculty received their degrees from the very same schools, MIT, Stanford and CalTech that you said would send the Princeton ChE’s with their “tail between their legs” and “would own them””</p>
<p>students are not faculty, last time i checked. also, the professor stats aren’t really a proper indicator of the strength of a program… and even if they were, there are more impressive lists. oh, let’s just look at hmc physics:</p>
<p>all profs:
2 MIT
5 Caltech
1 Berkeley
1 USC
1 Stanford
3 Harvard
1 U of Maryland
2 Johns Hopkins
1 U of Chicago
1 Cornell
1 U of Rochester</p>
<p>and this is for something like physics 60 students total.</p>
<p>i don’t want to get hung up on these numbers though. i think the quality of a program has to do with
X –> HX –> Y
where X is the incoming class, Y are the graduates, and H is the change that the institution imparts on the students.</p>