<p>Hey everyone. Please help me decide. I only have until sunday!</p>
<p>Ok, so I got into Carnegie Mellon's Qatar Campus (SCS) and Texas A&M's Qatar Campus for engineering ( I plan on doing Chemical Engineering here). Both offer identical degrees to the main campus, amazing facilities, and almost all the faculty members have previously taught at the main campus too. </p>
<p>So the thing is that I was previously sure about doing Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. It is prestigious, i like their course offerings, i like computer science in high school and it is something that will open doors for me in many fields.</p>
<p>However, I get a little depressed thinking that I will be sitting in front of a computer all day. I want to know if there is an alternative - something more 'social' and active one could do with a CS degree. I can also do a double majors with business in 5 years.</p>
<p>I am not a big fan of TAMU's curriculum, but i like Chemical Engineering itself a lot (probably more than CS). </p>
<p>So what should i do? as a field, i probably like ChemE more, but almost all the other aspects (prestige, fun, oppertunities) make CMU a better option.</p>
<p>Get your CS degree, work for 3 years, get an MBA, and go into management. You don't NEED and MBA to get a management position but if you have the time, money, and you get accepted to a top school it will boost your income.</p>
<p>Oh and if you think chemical engineers don't spend all day in front of a computer you should have been to my school's main comp lab last week. Every ChemE was in front of a computer getting their senior project finished. All engineers use computers to design/model/simulate their projects and a lot of that work is programming.</p>
<p>yo kid, listen
my cousin, shes female, she parties a lot, she major in CSE in a pretty decent school.</p>
<p>she grads with a gpa of 2.90, now shes stuck nowhere, shes so stressful how she made choice at CSE, well, maybe my uncle(who likes computers) forcing her to study, but end up 2.90.</p>
<p>well choose the major you like, i guesss i would highly suggest chemiE if you can, it's much more fun than some boring C++, </p>
<p>fantasy, yo, wat u major in, just keep it real, sorry about your cousin man, why did she listen to your uncle, what a douche, she should have been a chemE.</p>
<p>dude....CMU qatar is a party school and their CS curriculum aint identical to the main campus at all...i ahve a friend who studies computer science at CMU main campus and he tells me that their curriculum is much harder than the one qatar and that's what they've bee told by their professors in the US..</p>
<p>TAMU on the othe handis one of teh best engineerign schools worldwide....and their program is actuallly idenical to teh main campus...plus they're known for being more efficient and having better faculty than CMUQ</p>
<p>anyhow...goodluck with what u choose...and u hae to know that being a successful human depends mostly onyou not what university ur degree came from..</p>
<p>i dont think thats true ... so many of their students take a semester from the main campus and they get the same grades n stuff.</p>
<p>They even did one of those "blind gradings" in which the main campus graded the Qatar campus exams (without knowing who the examinee was) and they got identical average GPA's.</p>
<p>As for faculty, TAMUQ has some local faculty etc but MOST of the faculty at CMUQ has taught at the main campus ... </p>
<p>those were all of the factors that made me choose CMUQ over TAMUQ even though i like chemical engineering more.</p>
<p>HOWEVER, I'm not going to either - I'm doing cornell's 6 year accelerated MD program from Qatar.</p>
<p>dunno abt that...but i know for sure that all the TAMUQ professors have definitely taught at the main campus...i researched that university pretty well....</p>
<p>anyhow...good luck with ur newfound goal...</p>
<p>Thank You. They're all great. Trust me, I applied to and visited all three of them. And i'm pretty confident they will be BIG in the future.</p>
<p>I wasn't the "passionate" about anything but I decided to give medicine a shot. Lets hope it works out .. if it doesn't, i'll have to transfer to CMUQ or TAMUQ</p>