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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Top privates: HYPSM
Top public: Berkeley, Michigan, UCLA, etc
If cost is the same, there is no question about choosing MIT, Harvard and Stanford over any public. For Yale and Princeton, it may depend on the majors. For example, I can see people choose Berkeley over Yale for CS.[/quote]

Even to major CS, I would choose Yale over Berkeley without a slight hesitation. All undergrad CS courses at the T25 schools are more or less same, and research opportunities are plenty in those resourseful schools for an undergrad. But the overall undergraduate education experience at the two schools is hugely different, and frankly the experience at Yale is way better while you may have hard time even getting to some classes you want. Yes, prestige does play a role in my decision as well if I would pay that much to attend. 
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The quality of the professors are going to be totally different. UC Berkeley is ranked #3 in the world for CS and engineering, while Yale is 201-300. Yale is simply garbage for CS and Engineering. Yes, undergrads won’t be interacting with professors like PhD students do, but this gap is too much to ignore.

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