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[quote=Anonymous][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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No one cares where you go to school for computer science.  They really don't care about prestige.  [/quote]

Oh, believe me, as someone who hires CS grads, we DO care where you went for undergrad. We don’t necessarily care if you went to Berkeley (well, we do care, but we may not be able to afford you), but we do care where you went in a given state. In my state, if you went to our top private or our top public STEM, we want to hire you. If you went to any other public in the state, we would prefer not to waste the time teaching you what you didn’t learn in undergrad.[/quote]

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