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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have twin boys and both just graduated in CS, one from CMU and the other from VT.  The CMU graduate is working for IBM with a salary of 95K/yr while the VT is working for Amazon with a salary of 125K/yr.  The VT son has no student loan debt while the CMU son has 50K in student debt.

CMU might be good for some people but certainly not my kid.[/quote]

I'm assuming your VT kid was among the top 10% of his class and your CMU kid was in the bottom 50% to have outcomes like this.  It's also possible that the IBM kid chose the IBM job because it aligned more closely with his interests (e.g. quantum computing).   [/quote]

NO.  My CMU kid was among the top 30% of his class.  My VT kid was among the top 25% of his class.  My CMU kid just realized that he could get a good education from VT with no debt instead of CMU with debt.  50K student debt is a lot of money.  [/quote]

If your CMU kid was indeed among the top 30% of his class, he should have better offers [i]if[/i] he wanted them. You can't blame the school. All the high paying CS employers recruit at CMU. Many of them don't recruit at VT.[/quote]

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