<p>Love to hear any thoughts/feedback about the two schools and their programs. Obviously many differences in terms of size, location but mostly concerned about experiences people have had at one or other. Thanks!</p>
<p>If you can get in Carnegie Mellon is by far the best, but be aware that the School of Computer Science middle 50% math sat is 740-800</p>
<p>CMU is obviously one of the best for CS, on par with Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT. It has an entire school devoted to CS, it has awesome professors, serious students (these are the hardcore CS fanatics), a wide array of courses, tons of research (spanning all major areas of CS research), and many programs/institutes to immerse yourself in. The creator of Java (James Gosling) went to CMU. ;)</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd also happens to be up there with the above mentioned schools. Our professors are perhaps the best of any college (check the Princeton review) or close to it, and of those professors the CS ones are especially notable. Our students are just as hardcore as CMUs, and we also have tons of research as well (it helps that about 20% of our students are CS majors). I really cant comment on our course selection though; Im not a CS major. </p>
<p>Personally I would say it comes down to fit. Visit both schools and go off of first impression. Either college on your resume will be as impressive, but chances are one will make your undergraduate experience much more pleasurable.</p>
<p>James Gosling went to the University of Calgary for undergraduate, so I would say its about as worth mentioning as: the producer of most James Bond films went to Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd is a small college. In my opinion, they both have about the same reputation(not in CS, but in general), but Harvey Mudd would provide a much better experience because its an LAC. Just my opinion.</p>