I am having a very hard time choosing between these two schools…
I am hesitating on Columbia because I am hearing a lot about some different treatment towards the GS program.
Although there are some people who say it’s just a different gateway from Columbia University, it still remains leery to me…
Some tips and advice will be very helpful!!
it is and it’s not but i would go with UCLA
Relative costs? If UCLA is in-state and Columbia is full-pay then 100% go to UCLA.
@musklover . . . I’m assuming that you’re a community-college xfer and probably from CA, because of the state’s extensive two-year college network and with your applying to Columbia GS.
If you’re keen on attending school there, just think of GS as being kind of a graduate school; you’re just returning to college to get further education for whatever career that you’re seeking like an MBA but at undergrad, and Columbia’ll get you where you want to go. I’m sure its Stats program is older more established that UCLA’s.
It appears that Statistics was initiated as a major by UCLA in c. Fall of 2004, and the school from that point has stepped up enrollment in the major. It’s obviously housed in math, but it has a separate designation under Statistics, though the prereqs in lower and upper division have some math titles. You’d be taking Programming in Computing classes also, which are computational courses in the Math department separate from CS.
BTW, UCLA is ratcheting up its STEM enrollment and presence on campus by breaking out new majors within it, and the University is going to hire 100 additional engineering faculty within the next decade. There’s the new Engineering IV (edit: errr . . . VI) building which houses CS, and the school just received a pledge of $100M from the Samueli Foundation.
I was just looking at the xfer stats for those who entered UCLA for fall of 2018; the 25th/75th percentiles were 3.88/3.96. With Columbia calling, you’re probably ~ 4.0 . . . congrats. And if you’re a vet, I salute you.
^^ @musiklover . . . for your submittal. I only glanced at your name for a microsecond and thought you wanted to work for Elon Musk. Just the way my mind works, sorry.