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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CMU average CS grad salary is 201K. Pretty jaw dropping. They are super into it. Doubt its fun to attend but it does not get more cutting edge. Of course my kid was WL.

Cornell though it is high ranked is going to be more preppy and honestly I still don't think of of it for CS. Im in software and have yet to see a Cornell developer. We cant afford the CMU ones. If you are vibe-ing with Cornell, by all means, you cant go wrong, its Ivy. But if your kid is a super geek gonna-make-a-billion in CS, CMU is the place.

That said, It seemed like your kid wanted a more balanced life so maybe Cornell.[/quote]

Cornell ranks #6 in the country according to USNews so it is very strong for CS (though below CMU which is #2)[/quote]

It's strong but not incredible, IMO very overranked on US News for CS. One of the best proxies for which schools have the best CS talent is which schools have recently produced the most early stage funded startups. According to https://news.crunchbase.com/business/stanford-harvard-mit-funded-startup-founders/:

1. Stanford
2. MIT
3. Harvard
4. Berkeley
5. Columbia
6. Cornell
7. Duke
7. USC
9. Carnegie Mellon
9. Penn
9. UT Austin
9. Yale
13. Michigan
14. UIUC
15. UCLA
16. NYU
17. Northwestern
18. Princeton
19. Brown
19. Georgia Tech

This is by raw numbers, so schools with larger populations get significantly benefitted. Cornell has 2x the undergrad population as CMU yet is only slightly better at producing startup founders. If adjusted for undergrad population CMU has nearly 2x startup founders per capita.
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Are you including Cornells entire undergrad population or just CS?  I hope you are not comparing the Ag School and Hotel schools![/quote]

founders / approx CS undergrads per year
Cornell 92 / 300 = .31
CMU 80 / 250 = .32

Doesn’t look like a significant difference 
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Your numbers are off, Cornell has close to double the CS undergrads as CMU.[/quote]

Citation? 
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