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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The better private universities.

Stanford
MIT
Princeton
CMU
Duke
Rice
Northwestern
Hopkins
Penn
Cornell

A lot of publics might be better ranked in CS, but it's a pain and a slog getting a degree with so many 500/1000+ intro classes. Berkeley alone has CS classes with more than 1700 students.[/quote]

Of course this is only applies if you are taking intro courses.
If you are taking the non-elite school's advanced/honors equivlacent of the elite school courses, you won't have this problem.

The 1700 intro class is the CS version of Calculus I and II, which is largely online self-study or taught by grad students almost everywhere, and it's not problem. You don't need a professor's handholding for these classes.

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A professor's "handholding" can push you a lot further. DC repeated Calc 2 as a math major at an LAC, thinking it'd be an easy way. What he didn't expect was the professor could tell most of the class was comfortable and began transitioning to an Analysis class to up the anti. The "intro" Linear Algebra class is an advanced linear algebra course and the Advanced linear algebra course is the grad school linear comparison. You can push students pretty hard if you only have 10-15 of them in a class.[/quote]

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