<p>I would count out UCSD. If you are looking at pure Engineering prestige, you can’t nearly go wrong w/ anything in the College of Engineering at Purdue or Illinois-Chambana.</p>
<p>Which major do you prefer? I’d base it on that, and whether one school is much farther from home than the other.</p>
<p>Wait… why are you comparing EE from UCSD and ME from UIUC? If you’d do EE at UCSD… why wouldn’t you just do EE at UIUC since that’s probably one of their best programs?</p>
<p>Edit: Went back and read the first post. You can change your major… I don’t think it matters for your first year anyway. Besides, you got into the college of engineering, don’t see why they wouldn’t let you change your major… unless they’re crowded or something.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t get the issue. He got EE at UCSD but wanted ME, and got ME at UIUC, so why not just do UIUC. It sounds like he has his heart set on UCSD and wants people to make him feel like that is the right choice. Assuming that transferring is easy, I would say that is a good choice, but if transferring is tough at UCSD, then it is honestly silly if he doesn’t take the guaranteed ME department at UIUC, which has at least as good of a reputation out west.</p>
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<p>The author of this statement could ______ a _____ toward a _______. </p>
<p>Fill in the sentence above with the word(s) that best complete the phrase.</p>
<p>A. jump from
B. shoot
C. run
D. long way
E. take
F. short peer
G. idiot in the mirror
H. cliff
I. brick wall
J. Bullet
K. parking lot</p>
<p>Ouch, my hairs are hurting.</p>
<p>How is it splitting hairs? We are simply telling him that UIUC will NOT get him stuck in the Midwest like you claimed. You can speak in generalities all you want, but this guy came here asking specific advice about these schools, so we are giving him just that.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard that expression before, so I’m going to guess.</p>
<p>The author of this statement could take a run toward a cliff.</p>
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<p>This is the type of intellectual mind at purdue. Do you still wanna go there?</p>
<p>As the great thinkers of modern society often say, “screw Purdue.” </p>
<p>–That my friend cannot be described as anything but fundamentally ground breaking and intellectually stimulating insight…</p>
<p>“Go either UIUC or UCSD…” and “UIUC have great…” are synonymous with timeless intellect as well. Please, embrace me with the teachings I have missed here, I believe I’ve been cheated out of an education.</p>
<p>Purduefrank is it just more or does it seem that CSmajor may have some bitter feelings towards Purdue. Possibly because he is not intellectual enough to have been accepted?</p>
<p>CSmajor5 has been giving some… “interesting” advice since joining this site 28 posts ago.</p>
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<p>OH SNAP, GET BIG!</p>
<p>Let’s hear CSmajor’s comeback now.</p>
<p>CSmajor5 you make a lot of stereotypes. I think that you need to base your claims on more than just your own experiences and feelings (that’s what women do and that’s why they make men miserable).</p>
<p>I didn’t even bother to send application to purdue since I didn’t wanna waste my application fee for purdue and not worth my time. When I was in high school, I got accepted to Emory, Georgia Tech, university of virginia, and university of washington. Decide to go Georgia tech since its my state school and currently doing my master program. </p>
<p>I think of purdue as not better engineer program than UIUC. Some may say differently but that’s how I feel. If someone ask me to choose between UIUC and Purdue, I will choose UIUC anyday. </p>
<p>I guess in purdue, they give out ridiculous test like the one you posted. 3 blanks and fill in the blank with goodies. I see why some purdue civil engineers are the cause for falling bridges.</p>
<p>CSmajor, you have absolutely terrible grammatical skills. You are a dweeb. Get out of here. The OP is asking about the facts and the nature of the schools rather than some angry dick’s opinion. Get out of here.</p>
<p>CSmajor5, did they not teach English in Georgia? I am a UIUC grad, and even with our “rivalry” with Purdue, I will still admit that all this stuff you are saying about Purdue is pure drivel.</p>
<p>Honestly, don’t offer kids “help” if you aren’t going to be objective and check your facts.</p>
<p>I have checked the fact between UIUC and Purdue. Almost all majors, UIUC is better beside Aerospace. UIUC is in top 5 engineer school where as purdue is in 12th in graduate school ranking. </p>
<p>I am typing on mytouch so don’t expect correct spelling or no grammatic error. I am giving the op my opinion and advise and whether he take my advise or not, its entire up to him.</p>
<p>We are not even talking about graduate school though, and Purdue is in the top 10. There are many other facts that should be considered as well. Rankings also don’t make schools exactly what the OP is looking for. I think you should just leave CC. I have read your other posts, and they are also worthless, mean, and highly opinionated.</p>
<p>Faulty logic in CSmajor5’s last post:
- Rankings are the end all, be all when it comes to school quality
- A top 5 school is great, while a top 15 school is crappy
- Typing on a mytouch causes grammatical errors.</p>
<p>Correct logic:
- Rankings are only one of many factors to take into consideration when choosing a school.
- A top 5 school is great, and so is a top 15 school. At some point, the subjectivity of the rankings even makes it difficult to really say one top school is “better” than another.
- A mytouch or iPhone or what-have-you will certainly cause typos, but it cannot cause a gross misuse of the English language or the complete disregard of subject-verb agreement. Now, maybe English isn’t your first language, in which case I apologize, but don’t blame it on your mytouch.</p>
<p>Faulty logic in my post:
- The lack of credibility of CSmajor5 has something to do with his/her grammar.</p>
<p>Correct logic in my post:
- The lack of credibility of CSmajor5 has everything to do with the misinformation being spread with each post.</p>
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<p>Please, for Pete’s sake, just think about what you are saying before you say it. The posters here need objective facts and advice 95% of the time, not subjective, and in this case, misinformed opinions. You could convince some high schooler not to go to Purdue based on your unreasonable bias, when in reality, he may be an absolutely perfect fit for their school and program.</p>