Ask HN: Carnegie Mellon or Stanford

Re:Ask HN: Carnegie Mellon or Stanford by catch23 on Monday April 06, 2009 @12:36PM (#549115)

It might be too early to decide, but if you take the entrepreneurial route, stanford is the better choice given its affinity to the valley. cmu is possibly a better choice for academia if you enjoy paper & proposal writing.

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Re:Ask HN: Carnegie Mellon or Stanford by abii on Monday April 06, 2009 @01:14PM (#549181)

I'm probably more entrepreneurial than theoretical. But I'd likely be so deep in debt when I get of college, that I'd have to work for a while before doing a startup.

Anyway, I think the quality of students matters quite a bit. Does CMU attract the more academic kind and Stanford the more startupy kind? Are you saying that the CS research done at Stanford is not as good?

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Re:Ask HN: Carnegie Mellon or Stanford by menloparkbum on Monday April 06, 2009 @01:21PM (#549193)

Are you saying that the CS research done at Stanford is not as good?

At the undergraduate level I don't think this matters much. Aside from the goodness of the CS department, which I consider equal at these two schools, you should think about the total college experience. IMO Stanford has better weather, a better campus, better looking students, better non-CS departments, better surrounding environment, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Carnegie Mellon or Stanford by eli on Monday April 06, 2009 @02:59PM (#549366)

Definitely consider the strength of non-CS depts as an important factor. That said, I think CMU has some pretty decent non-engineering schools in too (e.g. theatre).

But what do I know, I went to state school :)

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