<p>Hey Guys!</p>
<p>So I'm debating between attending Brown SCS or Carnegie SCS.</p>
<p>Brown - strong program, good opportunities, great social life, happy people!, expensive :(</p>
<p>Carnegie - strongest program, good? opportunities, notsogreat social life, notsohappy people, cheaper (ap credits allow me to place out of a year)</p>
<p>What's your opinion? Where would you attend?</p>
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<p>I think this is a statement that will vary widely from person to person.</p>
<p>There are plenty of opportunities in CMU SCS. Every year google/microsoft/facebook/apple… hire lots of undergrads for interns as well as full-time employees. CS department also offers tons of in house jobs in summer to undergrads as well as on campus job during the semester.</p>
<p>About happiness, CMU cs students carry a heavy workload especially during the semesters when they take some of the “infamous” CS classes such as 15251 or 15410 which pretty much sucks in all your time. But those classes make CMU SCS students stand out from others. Also, those classes that consume a lot of time often requires group work so you spend lots of time with your peers which is kinda fun.</p>
<p>I’m sure Brown will have more parties and stuff like that and I have to admit that lots of cs people in CMU probably go to party like once a year or less, but in CMU if you do want to do those stuff you can sure find places to do that and people to do that with (kids in drama mayby?).</p>
<p>Brown is more is more expensive than CMU?
Could be a first for CMU where they gave more money than they should have.
or Maybe, Brown is needing this student. ?</p>
<p>Go to Brown.</p>
<p>"Carnegie - …notsogreat social life, notsohappy people…</p>
<p>Have you visited during a normal school day? Or gone during an overnight event for both? It truly is silly to make such statements off of a couple posts, when just as many posts (if not more) rebuke that statement.</p>
<p>Our D faced the same choice last year. (There were other top schools involved, but it came down to these two.) It was a close call, but she went with Brown and she loves it. For her, the deciding factor was Brown’s greater strength in humanities and social sciences. The computer science and engineering classes have been challenging, and she recently snagged a very nice internship with Microsoft. You cannot go wrong with either one.</p>
<p>My son has been very happy at CMU. He was never a big party person, so his idea of a good time is playing games with friends which he’s had no trouble doing. He’s very happy, he likes working hard. He’s had amazing internships and has a great job offer. He’ll be earning more than twice what I have ever made. CMU does have a very generous AP policy if you got good scores.</p>
<p>These are two vastly different curriculum.</p>
<p>That should be your first agenda-- explore what kind of undergraduate curriculum you want.</p>
<p>Brown students love Brown and CMU students love CMU.</p>
<p>If you want to have a broader more traditional liberal arts education on top of a CS degree, (and the Brown option to take any course P/F while an undegrad), then by all means go to Brown.</p>
<p>CMU students do have a social life-- geez, so tired of this misconception. Where does it come from?</p>
<p>What if I specifiacally want to pursue something in web app development with a minor in leadership or entrepreneurship</p>
<p>You could get a business minor, that’s very popular for CS. CS students must elect a minor. Not sure “leadership” per se, but there are Org Behavior and Psych classes and even CS classes on entrepreneurship (some special topics classes too).</p>
<p>Check out the course listing for the next semester and the previous one to see some interesting ideas.</p>
<p>Info systems has lots of these course as well- but not quite what you might get at Brown in a specific minor with that name.</p>
<p>Bumpppppppp</p>
<p>Choose CMU. To put it bluntly, you’ll be getting the best computer science education in the nation, along with fantastic recruitment opportunities and job options. Certainly CMU is going to be a harder curriculum, but that’s the reason our CS department is #1 in the nation, and Brown isn’t even in the Top 10.</p>
<p>That said, you’ll still get a top rate overall education at either school, but I highly encourage you to visit CMU before you dismiss it out of hand for lack of a social scene, which is something it definitely has. People who say that CMU students have no social life either aren’t trying at all or have never been here.</p>
<p>-A biased CMU student</p>
<p>Rofll
I posted the same post in the brown section
Theyre all raving about brown.
Looks like everyones crazy biased lolol</p>
<p>Re: #9
You don’t need to attend either Brown or CMU to learn about entrepeneurship or web app development. However, you do need to be able to recognize a good idea and to carry it through. </p>
<p>Go to Brown if you are unsure.</p>
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<p>Or it could just be that you’d be happy with your decision no matter which school you go to. ;)</p>