DS’s high school sends more students to UCB than to UCLA. Maybe I’m wrong but it seems UCB favors the Northern CA applicants and UCLA favors the So Cal students.
Thanks for the information regarding CWRU scholarships.
@Redslp you can take a look at admissions breakdowns by applicants, accepted and enrolled in the past for UCs here:
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/admissions-source-school
2018 should come out very soon.
@Redslp
There is a long standing attitude in the culture of “engineering” schools which faculty at WPI called the “boot camp” approach to education when I was there. The educational program they were designing at the time with a sizable NSF grant was largely directed toward projects and the integral “group thinking” aspect of work. It seemed that the old “boot camp” approach bred more of a competitive than a cooperative attitude. WPI has spent a lot of time and design effort working on team collaboration.
Bill Elliot (WPI about '65 PGD) was a fraternity brother who went on to administration at CMU where he worked for decades. He loved CMU, would help WPI with some administrative ideas and forwarded some helpful algorithms in those early CS days. From those days forward I have always thought of CM as a computer studies pioneer. I only mentioned them in the context of that reputation. I have no first hand knowledge of the competitive/cooperative attitude at CM…
A niece graduated from MIT about six years ago with high honors and did not like it, but had no complaints about the education. She simply felt that the work load she experienced was insane. Personally, I don’t believe a heavy workload necessarily translates into cutthroat competitiveness. Workloads are lighter when you enjoy the work. Too bad, we lost a good mind to law school!
The half-life of the state-of-the-art technology drove program planners to the realization that education is a continuous and on-going process for STEM professionals. One had best learn how to willingly participates in a lifetime, self-education program. Personal interests and cooperative attitudes play an important role.
Good question regarding CM! Don’t the know answer. Worth a conversion with students at any university of interest. How do these questions fit into our ever present and popular “ratings.”