Ask HN: Carnegie Mellon or Stanford

Re:Ask HN: Carnegie Mellon or Stanford by trickjarrett on Monday April 06, 2009 @12:13PM (#549071)

Wow, that's a tough call. Congrats to you for having the choice of which to go to.

I'd probably recommend Stanford overall. It's very highly ranked. Though if you're looking for CS academic work, you might go with Carnegie Mellon.

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Re:Ask HN: Carnegie Mellon or Stanford by abii on Monday April 06, 2009 @12:21PM (#549086)

Yes, it's a tough decision. But I don't think rankings really matter.

Do you mean that CS classes are better at CMU? How so?

EDIT: I claimed that "Gatech was ranked as #1 in CS but everyone I speak to tells me CMU and Stanford are definitely better (just look at the alumni of these two as opposed to gatech)." It is not. Its undergraduate program is ranked #6 and its graduate program is ranked #9 by the U.S. News & World Report. http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/com/s...

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Re:Ask HN: Carnegie Mellon or Stanford by trickjarrett on Monday April 06, 2009 @02:08PM (#549283)

This is just an anecdotal recommendation, I don't have any data to support this. During my time as a research assistant at GT I seem to recall hearing more from/about CMU people than Stanford.

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Re:Ask HN: Carnegie Mellon or Stanford by brent on Monday April 06, 2009 @12:39PM (#549123)

Who claims GT is #1?

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