Stanford over Ivys 
… Much better weather
But the point is when the choices are very close, one tends to focus on intangibles.
Plus Austin is awesome (and not large)
Regarding Austin, just one word: bats.
Again, opinions & bias - as one who did study abroad, I’d place the ease/financial incentives/supported programs of that route as the intangible, if a student is really key on great location in college. Again, it’s attending school, and when you consider all the breaks spent going home frosh/soph year, not a very long term commitment to any location.
And indeed, as with Austin, many neat “small cities” or “large towns” sprinkled across the US that are fun to land in graduating from anywhere. Road trip, USA.
So hot that many there never plan for the occasional cold… including all kinds of energy infrastructure.
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This is very true. 
And hedge tail events??? You see black swans everywhere, don’t you 
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A bit late to the party, but to give some very short and sweet answers:
- No.
- Neither, they are equal.
- Both are state schools with a relatively academically diverse student body, so there won’t be much difference between these.
- Again, these will be comparable. Finding differences here is splitting hairs at best.
- Neither of these is particularly known for leaning more towards research or industry, both being known in both areas.
In sum, choose based on fit/cost/gut here. The CS programs, especially with Turing at UT, are incredibly similar experiences. This decision should be made on other factors.
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