It’s finally time for me to make a decision now that all my regular decisions are back. I won’t get into my Stats but here are the schools I’m essentially looking at: University of Toronto, Ohio State Honors college, McGill, Lafayette. I also got into a couple other schools but these are the ones that I would consider going to.
My major will be computer science with an AI specialization. I don’t know if I want to go to grad school some day but I do what to be an entrepreneur at some point. I’m looking for somewhere with a pretty good social life but not all encompassing. I guess I’m stuck between U of T and OSU in that respect because UofT doesn’t have enough but OSU might have to much. Other than that they’re essentially all the same price.
Just looking for some opinions and maybe a little discussion here.
I think UofT should have plenty in terms of social life and has a stellar CS reputation. Not to say that your other options aren’t great, and you should consider other fit factors, but speaking in a purely academic program sense + social life being sufficient, Toronto is the way to go in my opinion.
What’s your feeling on the fact that I don’t get guaranteed my major at UofT?
That’s a very important detail. If I’m reading the link below right, it looks like 4 in 5 don’t get into CS. That or 80% means 4/5 get in. I would call and ask about secondary major admission to get a correct interpretation. If it’s 80%, that would mean likely not a big worry. 20%? I would cross it off.
http://web.cs.toronto.edu/program/ugrad/admission.htm
If you cannot get your preferred major, it makes little sense to attend a school. Sure, students change majors all the time, but if you think you know what you want to do then you need to attend a school that will let you do it. This is a far different issue than choosing between colleges while getting hung up on a difference of #12 versus #21 in departmental rankings.
Those statistics are on the required percentage attained across classes to get into the major.