Carnegie Mellon vs. Cornell in CS

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
21

<p>My son who wants to major in CS (but does not want to be an engineer) applied RD to SCS at CMU and CAS at Cornell. He was waitlisted at CMU and has had a happy and successful year at Cornell.</p>

22

<p>FWIW, the Cornell admit rates cited in this thread, to this point, are old numbers. See <a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000003.pdf[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000003.pdf&lt;/a&gt; for 2009.
I imagine 2010 will be posted soon, and will be lower yet.</p>

23

<p>Agree with CayugaRed. CMU’s CS is better than CoE’s easily but it’s much more focused and hardcore. If you have any interests besides CS, Cornell would be your choice</p>

24

<p>

</p>

<p>I wouldn’t say ‘easily’. At the end of the day, undergrad CS is undergrad CS, and Cornell still has some of the best CS researchers in the country. Maybe just not the highest concentration of them.</p>