“I want to go to Harvard because it offers better CS”
I do not believe that this is true. Michigan is very strong for CS. The strongest software engineer that I have ever worked with (or at least one of the three strongest) is a Michigan graduate. He has been very successful. My girlfriend way, way back when I was a graduate student at Stanford was a Michigan graduate.
Michigan is a superb university for computer science. Being in-state, you are getting a great deal financially (and will not even need to purchase a warm coat).
You have an opportunity to get a great education at a great university. Do not blow it by focusing your effort in an attempt to go somewhere else. Expect Michigan to be academically very demanding. Plan to work very hard and try hard to stay ahead in your classes. You are lucky to have such a great university in-state.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
Moreover, CALS does not offer CompSci.
I’ve heard that.
Anyway, it looks like the OP was banned, so further commentary seems pointless.
me too…should have credited you with it, @skieurope!
I’ve been in the tech business for years and I tell you for a fact that no one cares about where you went to school. If you read my other posts, you’ll see all the prestigious companies I’ve interviewed at, and YES Amazon and Google are on that list. Don’t fool yourself into thinking you’re going to make big bucks out of college going somewhere prestigious. Here’s a lesson in economics 101. You’re going to get a local market entry level salary, no more no less. If the employers start going any higher on the salary, they can attract an experienced professional to do the job. The “higher than average” starting salary stats these schools boast about are misleading, because these schools are on the east/west coast with a higher than average cost of living.
Zuckerberg and Gates were college dropouts who started their own companies, which means there was no prestige to begin with. If they went to Michigan, they would have still dropped out and started their own companies, because they were motivated to begin with.
Success in life is a function of internal motivation, not approval from other people.
While I use the phrase a lot, I’m sure I’m not the original.
@alphaBoy00
Both dropped out of Harvard.