<p>I'm an international student. Just like the title, cs in UCSD or cs in U of Toronto. Which one is better in terms of job condition and prestige in the eyes of graduate school AOs. I've been struggling about this for weeks. Please help me! Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Hi allanben.</p>
<p>Have you been accepted into UCSD (UC San Diego) into the CS major? </p>
<p>If not . .then I just wanted to share what I heard when we toured UCSD on Friday 4/4/14. We heard at the “Welcome” session that it is very difficult (“rare exception”) to get into any of the engineering college majors for Fall 2014 admits, if you have not already been admitted into that major . . as ALL of the majors in engineering are impacted at this time (for newly admitted students). </p>
<p>On Sat. 4/5/14 when we visited UCSD for their open house “Triton Day”, my son and I attended a session for “Undeclared Majors” and found out that the session audience was made of two groups: traditional “undeclared” students, and many students who applied for and were accepted into UCSD for Fall 2014 . . but had applied into one of the majors from the engineering college (<a href=“Undergraduate Majors | Jacobs School of Engineering”>http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/academic/academic_undergrad/undergrad_majors/</a>) and did NOT get into their major of choice. Many were admitted under a 2nd choice major OR admitted as “undeclared”. They were told that it would be “rare exception” to be allowed into one of the engineering majors at this time. </p>
<p>Best wishes!</p>
<p>Waterloo is better known than Toronto. UCSD is in the top 21 colleges that Facebook lists in the career section. If you were accepted to CS major at UCSD then go there, if not maybe Toronto is a better choice.</p>
<p>@Cris1234
I’m dumped into my 2nd major.
Hmm, that’s disappointing. I thought I can handle it, but “rare exception”… :-w I think I should go elsewhere.
Thanks for your information!</p>
<p>@DrGoogle</p>
<p>Thanks for your response!
Could you help me once more in this one?
Excluding UCSD, I also have offers from:</p>
<p>US:
UC Davis
UC Santa Barbara
Purdue University
Ohio State University</p>
<p>Canada:
U of Waterloo
UBC
U of Toronto</p>
<p>For all of these Us, I was accepted directly into CS major.
Which one is the best? (still in terms of job condition and possibility of getting into an excellent CS graduate school)</p>
<p>The decision I’ll make will affect the rest of my life, so I really need some help from expert like you.
I will be really thankful if you can help me in this one.</p>
<p>I’m no expert but On Facebook student career, I saw the following colleges, on your list, I saw Waterloo and UBC for Canada. For US, I’ve heard of Purdue for Engineering, UCDavis and UCSB are decent schools. I don’t know about Ohio State. So if I were to pick I would pick Waterloo.</p>
<p>Brown
Cal
Caltech
CMU
Columbia
Cornell
Georgia Tech
Harvard
Illinois
Michigan
MIT
Princeton
Stanford
Texas
UBC
UCLA
UCSD
UPenn
Washington
Waterloo
Wisconsin</p>
<p>@DrGoogle
Thanks!
U of Waterloo.
That is also my preference.
High-tech campus, low intuition fee, co-op program.</p>