CS: What are some of the good LACs or small colleges?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top three SLACs are:

Harvey Mudd
Grinnell
Pomona

Honorable mentions:
Davidson
Carleton
Middleburry

Tell me about the greek scene and social life of kids at these so called top colleges?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top three SLACs are:

Harvey Mudd
Grinnell
Pomona

Honorable mentions:
Davidson
Carleton
Middleburry

Tell me about the greek scene and social life of kids at these so called top colleges?

I suggest picking up a copy of Princeton Review’s guide to colleges.

[Anonymous]

Pepperdine has been great for my DS. Graduated in 2024 and is now at Cornell law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pepperdine has been great for my DS. Graduated in 2024 and is now at Cornell law.

Pepperdine for CS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pepperdine has been great for my DS. Graduated in 2024 and is now at Cornell law.

Pepperdine for CS?

CS and Philosophy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top three SLACs are:

Harvey Mudd
Grinnell
Pomona

Honorable mentions:
Davidson
Carleton
Middleburry

Tell me about the greek scene and social life of kids at these so called top colleges?

Can't speak for the others, but Davidson is fun! It has a good social life (work/play balance) for those who are interested!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top three SLACs are:

Harvey Mudd
Grinnell
Pomona

Honorable mentions:
Davidson
Carleton
Middleburry

Tell me about the greek scene and social life of kids at these so called top colleges?

No Greek scene in the Claremont colleges. Great work life balance, and a lot of partying Thursday-Saturday. CMC and Mudd host the most parties.

[Anonymous]

Of note regarding CS programs ar LACs, Hamilton is currently in construction on a computer science building with "best in class technologies and resources."

https://www.hamilton.edu/news/stories/ai-technology-innovation-building-campus

[Anonymous]

University of Tulsa. They are plucking out good staff from RICE and USC and really building their program up. A number of their grads are going to University of Michigan or MITT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hands down Mudd. It’s the lac leader, and few are at a comparable level

You are becoming about as annoying as “Bucknell to the street” boy. Mudd is great but not greater than any other top LAC.

This is flat out wrong for cs. There’s a substantial gap, do not take this advice

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are some of the real good LACs or small colleges for computer science? + also good creative writing

Want to avoid greek / frat culture

Carleton and Swarthmore are great options. They both are repeat regional finalists in ICPC competitions, both place well into CS PhD programs, and both have strong writing/humanities programs.

There’s no incentive to getting a PhD in CS- that’s a massive cut to your salary for not much pay increase with a detrimental time sink. This indicates that swarthmore cs grads aren’t learning enough to get jobs in industry. Swarthmore also has a long lottery with waitlist and caps for your course load- that’s not worth the cost.
You know whose also great at the ICPC competitions, better than swarthmore? UCSD. Competitions don’t mean anything of substance- Princeton hardly gets any Putnam placements, and it’s the best math program in the world.

+1, getting a PhD in cs is silly. Worth it only for the top 0.1% who’ll go into quant finance.

Not silly at all. CS PhDs on average currently earn 20% more than BS only recipients and about 10% more than MS. So career earnings will exceed a BS and probably even an MS depending on stipend level and years to earn. But all that assumes things stay as they are, which they will not: in the coming decades AI will almost definitely eat into lower skilled earnings more than higher skilled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hands down Mudd. It’s the lac leader, and few are at a comparable level

You are becoming about as annoying as “Bucknell to the street” boy. Mudd is great but not greater than any other top LAC.

This is flat out wrong for cs. There’s a substantial gap, do not take this advice

New poster. Harvey Mudd, to the extent it counts as a LAC, is by far the best LAC for CS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hands down Mudd. It’s the lac leader, and few are at a comparable level

You are becoming about as annoying as “Bucknell to the street” boy. Mudd is great but not greater than any other top LAC.

This is flat out wrong for cs. There’s a substantial gap, do not take this advice

New poster. Harvey Mudd, to the extent it counts as a LAC, is by far the best LAC for CS.

DP. Recall OP asked about CS plus creative writing. I agree HMC is fantastic at CS, arguably the best of the LACs for it, although I don’t agree with the “by far” part. However, for CS plus creative writing, I think there may well be better options in the t10. HMC students are supposed to take at least half their humanities courses from HMC itself, and each college gives priority registration to their own students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hands down Mudd. It’s the lac leader, and few are at a comparable level

You are becoming about as annoying as “Bucknell to the street” boy. Mudd is great but not greater than any other top LAC.

This is flat out wrong for cs. There’s a substantial gap, do not take this advice

New poster. Harvey Mudd, to the extent it counts as a LAC, is by far the best LAC for CS.

DP. Recall OP asked about CS plus creative writing. I agree HMC is fantastic at CS, arguably the best of the LACs for it, although I don’t agree with the “by far” part. However, for CS plus creative writing, I think there may well be better options in the t10. HMC students are supposed to take at least half their humanities courses from HMC itself, and each college gives priority registration to their own students.

Mudd is the biggest Gate keeper. It’s really easy to get into other classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hamilton

+1 DS wanted a small engineering school, we hoped for a LAC. Hamilton was the best compromise we found. In the end, we realized it was his choice, and he chose the engineering school.

But Hamilton is great for this profile.