Ask YC: what non-top-tier college to apply for?

Post by vthakr » Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 10:36 PM UTC

rcoder wrote: post #14

msg wrote: post #10

Public universities are not bad. I did my time in Univ of Washington and Utah State University, and I definitely feel like I got my money's worth. A warning, though. UW's proximity to MS and the other tech companies made the department really exclusive for undergrads while I was there. I majored in something besides CS, then did my master's in CS later. You'll want to learn about what the department's standards are (…

UW and Utah State both have great undergrad CS programs, and they produce lots of solid OSS projects, which could help your visibility a lot when you're applying for jobs after college. I'm going to have to make my usual plug for my home state (Oregon) here, too, and suggest that the OP look at both Oregon State University, in Corvallis, and Portland State University, in Portland. Neither is "world-class" for CS, but…

Post by wallflower » Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 11:36 PM UTC

te_platt wrote: post #92

bcutler wrote: post #7

Try Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. They've got a competitive (if not top-tier) CS program, fantastic library, beautiful campus, and tuition is 20% of what you'd pay at other private schools. Warning: not a party school

I spent time at BYU and the University of Utah and I thought the U of U had a much more solid CS program. The U has a long history in the field. It is also where I was introduced to lisp, bigO notation, and algorithm analysis. BYU was more Java oriented. Of course that was many years ago so take it for what it's worth.

Post by AndyKelley » Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 11:40 PM UTC

Post by Darmani » Tue, Jun 24, 2008, 1:15 AM UTC

Kevin_Johnson wrote: post #54

Kevin_Johnson wrote: post #52

Missouri University of Science & Technology (formerly known as the University of Missouri at Rolla, and before that the Missouri School of Mines) is a great engineering school. It's very affordable, the engineering and science graduates pretty much all make above the national average starting salary. A lot of career engineers came from there and have made it good at Boeing, LockMart, Raytheon, etc in aerospace and de…

Forgot to mention: 1) It's super affordable. 2) Has many notable alumni (one good example is Tom Akers (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) was my bro's advisor in mathematics and holds the record for stick time on the space shuttle, broke the record for spacewalk duration, then broke it again the next day, flew on the HST repair mission, etc.) 3) Huge emphasis on undergrad education, and undergrad R&D work. 4) Recently started a p…

Post by prospero » Tue, Jun 24, 2008, 3:47 AM UTC

imgabe wrote: post #26

If you're certain you want to major in engineering or CS. I've read really good things about Olin ( http://olin.edu ) If I were applying to colleges now, I'd apply there. http://wsjclassroom.com/teen/teencenter/05dec_olin.htm http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may06/3432