<p>So far I have applied to the following:
ASU BHC
USC
U of AZ honors
Clemson
Madison
Texas A&M
UT Austin</p>
<p>Can someone rank these roughly in order of which is best?
Also, feel free to suggest another school. btw, i am interested in software and security.</p>
<p>Go to Texas A&M</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon, Univ. Texas are highly recommended. Be careful re: Barret.</p>
<p>i thought UT austin was a better engineering school than texas A&M?</p>
<p>I know many folks who went to A&M and landed Internships at Intel. very hard to get.,</p>
<p>Who gives a crap about ranking, all I got to say is</p>
<p>Who says One school is better than the next. Its not something that can really me proven. Its just something some people just accept which is wrong.</p>
<p>Being a Texan, I'd like to say that both UT and A&M are great schools. My personal preference is toward UT. In general UT has a slightly better reputation. Plus, Austin > College Station any day of the week.</p>
<p>"Who says One school is better than the next. Its not something that can really me proven. Its just something some people just accept which is wrong."</p>
<p>Well if employers accept it, then we got no choice. I have been accepted to Austin but tuition is going to kill me. </p>
<p>Garrity, what is wrong with barret?</p>
<p>In the very recent past many students have lost their scholarships after one year. Supposedly Barret has corrected the grading system by adding pluses and minuses, and the required GPA has been lowered. Now Barret is charging extra to be in the Honors College-not a good sign. Many of the so-called honors courses are just regular footnoted courses where honors students agree to do extra work for honors credit. Not the most knowledgeable or honorable folks.</p>
<p>The Univ. of Arizona Honors offers very little and is not recommended. A lot of incorrect info. comes out of ASU's Barret H.C. Texas,Texas A&M, and Carnegie Mellon are in a different and higher class than either Arizona school.</p>
<p>Arizona is appealing only because of the massive merit aid they offer. But several people say BHC is a top honors college. How does Clemson do in CS?</p>
<p>Barrett will tell you that;and Reader's Digest did a ridiculous one sentence rating claiming ASU, Ole Miss & Penn State to have the best Honors colleges in May,2005. Penn State is in a totally different class than Barrett and Mississippi. The ranking was poorly done and may have gotten caught up in the word "college" vs. "program". Many of the very best are still "programs". I cannot comment on Clemson as I have not researched it at all.</p>
<p>If you are a Texas resident, UT-Austin FTW.</p>
<p>The program there is top notch (# 7 think) and they offer a honors program (Touring Scholars) that is even better. More importantly, they have wonderful corporate relations with Google, Dell (funding a new building), IBM and other prospective employers. Not to mention that instate tuition is dirt cheap.</p>
<p>well, I'm in Minnesota so its almost $13k a semester for me.</p>
<p>5.0,</p>
<p>Yeah that is the thing about being an of state resident--the tuition is A LOT. It isn't too hard to get merit scholarships once you are in though.</p>
<p>For CS, UT-Austin is one of the better programs in the country, I would consider far better than A&M.</p>
<p>Carnegie-Mellon is probably best on your list, but it's both hard to get into, and once you get into, very intense. Also it's a very "narrow" school that does a few things very well (CS, theater, business, etc) and not very much else - not a real great choice for those who are interested in lots of different areas.</p>
<p>Now, personally, I do computer science at USC, and it's quite good. We have our own Turing award winner (sometimes called the nobel prize of computer science) and there are lots of opportunities for undergrads to go into different areas - for example, the undergrad computer graphics course is taught by a senior graphics software developer at Dreamworks, and so it's a great opportunity to show off your stuff and land an internship there (and people do). Besides that there are good research labs in robotics and computer games with opportunities for undergrad research and projects (including a whole Computer Science/Games major if that's what strikes your fancy.</p>
<p>Can't you go to a program in Minnesota, especially since you're concerned with OOS tuition. From what I hear, U.Minn. has a great engineering school.</p>
<p>It's too late to apply to U MN but i really want to get out of state.</p>
<p>I can always go to madison if oos tuition stops me from leaving. MN residents get discounted admission in WI.</p>
<p>I thought WI-Madison had a top 10 CS department. Is that incorrect?</p>
<p>True.
Wisco, A&M, UT and CMC all are very good in that field.</p>
<p>ASU honors is one of the best in the nation but i dunno how their CS is.</p>
<p>If money is a factor i would choose Wisco or A&M. A&M is supercheap OOS and Wisco is discounted.
Cheers</p>