<p>yes, ASP is quite right. Cornell is far ahead when one thinks of Computer Science or Engineering.</p>
<p>Thanks to ArjunSP, Newbyreborn and ronty007. It seems that I should pick Cornell. But as far as I know, Waterloo is also a great school for CS. Some facts show that the Faculty fo Mathematics is the largest education center of math and Computer Science. Is the CS program at Cornell better than UW?</p>
<p>my sister is just finishing up computer sciences at waterloo (she's training to become an actuary). apparently, its incredably difficult to get into (in comparison to other canadian schools), and you have to be one of the best students... but its way cheaper than cornell. besides the whole terrible residency thing, my sister loved/is loving waterloo!</p>
<p>based on academics alone:
Waterloo > Toronto = Cornell</p>
<p>Don't listen to the prestige whores on here . If you graduate from Waterloo CS, you are basically guaranteed a job at Microsoft</p>
<p>Away from the Talk for several days. Thank you very much, LindsayRees and dooit. I really want some opinions from Canadian. I know UW is excellent in the field. But it seems that it is only good at Math/Eng(As an undergraduate student, I would like/have to take some other courses. Although I definitely want to specialize in CS). On the other hand, I prefer studying at a large and compreh environment like Cornell and UT. BTW, how large is UW? And how terrible is UW's rez?</p>
<p>I heard that the sausages(NO!! Not that you perverts!!!) served at the residences are incredibly shiny.</p>
<p>no probs,
waterloo has exceptionally small bedrooms and the bathroom was shared by 4 or 5 people.
waterloo is probably the 6th biggest university in canada... known as the best for environmental studies, computer science, and actuarial sciences. its also one of the most innovative universites (only beaten by mcmaster i'd say).
macleans recommends it highly and so does my family!</p>
<p>Thanks. I also wonder if there was anyone who chose UT while holding the CS co-op offer from Waterloo.</p>
<p>For CS the best place is Waterloo (Co-op is amazing!)</p>
<p>btw microsoft could care less what your undergraduate institution is (so long as its reasonably up there), my dad works at msft and occasionally does interviews both for interns and higher ranked full timers and the consensus among the recruiters that go out to colleges is that all that matters is that you are at the top and you have "passion" or whatever. in fact one of the recruiters reported being extremely disappointed with the dismal quality of most of the people who were looked at at MIT this year. my dad also extolled the virtues of one of his interns who came from waterloo, and said they seemed to have a very rigorous program.</p>