<p>How is Chicago in computer science? As far as I know its program isn't as good as those at Carnegie Mellon or Stanford (if I even get in there...), but I feel like the "life of the mind" at Chicago could make up for this with a better well-rounded education. Does it hurt the comp sci program at all that Chicago isn't an engineering school?</p>
<p>What I've heard is that Chicago CS, like most things UChicago, is very theoretical, so you probably won't be doing application based eecs anytime soon.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if you like theoretical computer science, the ties between that and the math department are fabulous.</p>
<p>We have a very strong AI department (our first intro to programming classes teach Scheme, not Java/C), so yes we have an incredibly theoretical cs dept. I asked my dad (who was in tech) to go through the computer science course list and tell me which courses were useful, and he couldn't find more than 1 or 2.</p>
<p>Read Zimmer's e-mail. I remember it talking about CS somewhere</p>