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Also, go to an epically good college. That'll be a huge help down the line. Seconded. Going to Northwestern has been a big leg up so far. Attending a top 20-30
by Locke1689 17y ago
Also, go to an epically good college. That'll be a huge help down the line.
Seconded. Going to Northwestern has been a big leg up so far. Attending a top 20-30 school (especially in CS) may be the difference in getting an interview or not (where you can really show off ;)).
- tokenadult 17y agoAttending a top 20-30 school (especially in CS) Informational question here from an onlooker: What's the recent consensus about which schools are the top twenty or thirty schools in CS, especially for a young person with an interest in start-up Web service work as contrasted with Wall Street or Big Company work?
- wallflower 17y agoStarting a list: Brown, CMU, MIT, Waterloo, BYU, UWashington, Stanford, RPI, Cornell, Cal
- alexgartrell 17y agoFor more of a startup culture, gravitate more towards the coasts. Stanford is probably the best.
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- Locke1689 17y agoNorthwestern ;) Also, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Harvard, Yale (rest of the Ivies), Caltech, UChicago. I'm sure that there are others. Personally I'm a big proponent of the liberal arts education so I'd probably put schools with very good general programs closer to the top, but that's my personal belief.
- python123 17y agoLOL BYU?? Is that a joke? Or are you just clueless?
- Locke1689 17y agoDamn man, your account is only 30 days old and you're already at -3 karma? Shooting for a record or something?
- tokenadult 17y agoThe credited way to disagree with a statement that some computer science department is a top-thirty department is to name thirty other departments that are better, with rationale.
- RevRal 17y agoEven if wallflower made a mistake, that would be no reason to be disrespectful.