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I attended their office hours with Kevin Hale at my school - NC State, very far from a top tier school. Neat experience, but [0] they never posted about visitin
by akhilcacharya 10y ago
I attended their office hours with Kevin Hale at my school - NC State, very far from a top tier school. Neat experience, but [0] they never posted about visiting on HackerNews.
[0] Apparently they did in their Winter Tour last year, my mistake.
- katm 10y agoWe announced the visit to NC State last year: https://blog.ycombinator.com/winter-2016-college-tour/ https://blog.ycombinator.com/winter-2016-college-tour/
- akhilcacharya 10y agoMy mistake, must have missed that. I found out through our school's entrepreneurship program.
- jnate15 10y agoNC State is more qualified than you give credit. US News ranks NC State's Engineering program higher than Duke's. Duke / NC State / UNC are three strong universities. http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/eng-rankings/page+2 http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...
- akhilcacharya 10y agoEh - quality of education and research aside, and it's fine in that regard, it still doesn't have the same prestige as the other two by a long shot.
- jnate15 10y agoI have experience with NC State, Duke, UNC. At the undergraduate level there isn't much difference between the three (except basketball).