UPenn vs. Cornell CS

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>Hi, I am a transfer student trying to decide between UPenn SEAS and Cornell engineering for computer science. I know Cornell CS has a far better reputation (5th in the country) but what exactly distinguishes one from the other in terms of:</p>

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<li>research opportunities</li>
<li>Extracurricular activities: I know Cornell has student project teams, but that's pretty much it. At Penn there's Weiss Tech House, student hubs & residential programs</li>
<li>quality and quantity of recruits, and how employers generally view these two schools</li>
<li>Quality of the engineering curriculum (this one is kinda obvious in that Cornell's engineering curriculum is very, very solid)</li>
<li>The overall experience</li>
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<p>Also, Penn's CS class only has 20 ppl whereas Cornell has 100. I read somewhere that competition at Cornell is high and that because of this sometimes Penn CS graduates end up with higher salary jobs. Is this true?</p>

<p>Also, I heard that Cornell's very course and GPA oriented whereas Penn's more social and have a lot more activities, is this true?</p>

<p>Overall, what makes a Penn engineer (CS) different from a Cornell engineer? What type of engineers do Cornell tend to produce and what type of Penn engineers?</p>

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<p>I don’t really know about CS specifically, but I got into both schools for undergrad and when I visited each I got exactly the opposite feel.</p>

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<p>Is there a difference between CS in Cornell’s CAS vs Cornell’s engineering school?</p>

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<p>Nope.</p>

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<p>Go look up the data yourself. The post-grad survey reports are posted up on the college’s respective websites. </p>

<p>Looking at the data from the last few years, this assumption is false. Cornell CS grads have generally done much better than Penn pure CS grads. However, Penn’s CS & Engineering majors tend to do better, usually on-par or worse than Cornell’s CS grads.
However, the data may be skewed because Cornell uses median and Penn seems to use mean salaries.</p>

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<p>That would only serve to further the point, since salaries tend to be right skewed, meaning the mean is higher than the median.</p>