Carnegie Mellon or Virginia Tech?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:well, my kid's CS teacher said to him when my kid was evaluating engineering schools:

* which one would you rather be at if your major doesn't work out for you?

this is good advice

Can you please elaborate that statement? Seems like 200k is an expensive experiment.

PP here

if you exclude CS and Engineering would you rather have a degree from CMU or Tech?

Cmu - tepper places quite well in finance and consulting.

Tech - lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:well, my kid's CS teacher said to him when my kid was evaluating engineering schools:

* which one would you rather be at if your major doesn't work out for you?

this is good advice

Can you please elaborate that statement? Seems like 200k is an expensive experiment.

What's to elaborate? When choosing between two college options, an important factor is that kids switch majors a lot. Not always by choice. We can't say what the $200k means to this family. This advice is more general.

Frankly, if this were the choice my son faced: he could get into VA tech engineering and I couldn't afforrd CMU (who gives little merit aid), I'd send my son to a different OOS flagship with similar reputation that had less of a weedout culture, was located closer to a major metro area, and had fewer of his high school classmates going there. YMMV.