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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are some of the real good LACs or small colleges for computer science? + also good creative writing

Want to avoid greek / frat culture[/quote]

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. [/quote]
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.[/quote]

UCSD great as it is has roughly 15x the pool of students to form their team(s) from than a typical LAC.

Of course LAC grads can get lucrative jobs if they choose to go directly into industry. Those who want PhDs often have a longer view. It was only 3 months ago that a Swarthmore alum received a Nobel for foundational work in AI. [/quote]

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