#UT Austin (Honors) vs Berkeley EECS (vs Georgia Tech, Cornell, Duke)

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sly trail
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Schools: UT Austin (Honors) vs Berkeley EECS vs TAMU Full Ride vs Georgia Tech vs Cornell vs Duke
Major: COMPUTER SCIENCE
Similarities: State Schools (for the first 3), t10 CS programs

UT AUSTIN
School 1 Pros:
In-state tuition (cost). Close to home & lots of friends
Honors = smaller class sizes and easier to get research/other opportunities on campus
Location (lots of tech companies in Austin), campus is cool
School 1 Cons:
Weather
Too close to home, won't get to explore another state
Prestige ✨ (compared to the other schools)

UC BERKELEY
School 2 Pros:
Location
Recognition/ranking/prestige 😭
Chance to move far away from home for college
Slightly better curriculum (? need confirmation)
Weather
School 2 Cons:
Cost
CS overenrollment issue (potentially, I don't know if its an issue for EECS majors though)
Housing

Cornell, Duke, and Georgia Tech are the same as Cal except they don't have the overenrollment/housing issue, and GT is about 18k/year cheaper than the others.

Tiebreaking considerations:
Coursework for CS
Feasibility of doing a double major with Math (or maybe Finance)
Recruiting/Undergraduate research opportunities/industry connections

amber arch
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ucb is a phenomenal cs school. also sf is right there if you wanna get an internship

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sf has a TON of startups

sly trail
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thats true

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it also costs 3 times as much as UT

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😭

hallow shore
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I think cost would be major factor here

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do you know the price for each school

sly trail
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UT Austin - around 25k/year
UC Berkeley/Cornell/Duke - 70k/year 😭 i got no aid
Georgia tech - 51k/year or something like that

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im leaning heavy towards UT

amber arch
hallow shore
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damn wtf

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did you try to negotiate

amber arch
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yeah def go to ut austin imo

hallow shore
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yey

amber arch
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lots of bay area tech people move to austin and texas anyways

hallow shore
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UT def unless you want to drown in debt (or if your family is well off)

amber arch
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it might even be easier to get a job in cs because there’s significantly less competition than in the bay

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and you can always go to grad school later on in the future if you want to

trim girder
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I’d say Berkeley eecs if the debt isn’t that bad

amber arch
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but i’d say go where you’ll end up with the least amount of debt

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berkeley is a great cs school but that cost… yikes

hallow shore
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280k 4 years

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not worth it for any school

trim girder
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Not if the parent can pay for it and is financially stable

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Can’t go wrong with any of these tho so no bad choices here

sly trail
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like my efc was twice as much as my entire family makes in a year

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and i don’t think we have many assets unless my dads hiding stuff 😭

hallow shore
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def tho, but either way the cost gap is too significant as compared to the education/outcomes gap

sly trail
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fs

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that’s why i’m leaning UT

sly trail
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like it has all 4 of the others

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plus a bunch of startups

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also there’s like dell and oracle

amber arch
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oh yeah

sly trail
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i just like need to convince myself to choose it lol

amber arch
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ok honestly go with ut austin

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it’ll be cheaper

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sf is overpriced and kinda gross

hallow shore
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if I were you, I would choose UT in a heartbeat

amber arch
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ut austin + honors is insane you madlad

sly trail
sly trail
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austin is cool

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also another thing im@considering is that i don’t like texas that much lol

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weather wise at least

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and i kinda want to go to somewhere in another state to like actually get experience living somewhere else

amber arch
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california isn’t that much better tbh

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no water + expensive + fog + no seasons

sly trail
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i mean its always way too hot here lmao

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thats true though

hallow shore
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program prestige matters more to you here

sly trail
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that + moving far away from home

hexed fjord
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Oof I'd say go for UT Austin

dusty wagon
hexed fjord
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Mainly cause of the cost

dusty wagon
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berkeley is not worth $200k

sly trail
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thats what im thinking rn

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unless i somehow get aid from one of the other schools

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but thats probably not happening

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i fumbled the gatech full ride lmao my interview was so bad

hexed fjord
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Prestige only matters to so much of a degree

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100k for college vs 300k

sly trail
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fr

hexed fjord
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And plus u still got ur whole life to go to other states

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youll be able to see fam and you'll already have friends

sly trail
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true

hexed fjord
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  • the tech companies nearby
hallow shore
heady igloo
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im picking UT

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youll get the same opportutnites for 200k less

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im assuming ur turing scholars ?

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turing name is hella prestigious in cs world

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ez internship

sly trail
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well im tryna choose between turing+deans and csb

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but im leaning turing+deans

heady igloo
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that depends on what u wanna do

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i’m prob gonna pick csb

sly trail
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oh fr

heady igloo
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yea

sly trail
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are you gonna do entrepreneurship or something

heady igloo
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not necessarily

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i think csb just aligns with my interests more

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turing is a program focusing heavily on research

sly trail
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makes sense

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i think ima just do an MBA if i want business skills

heady igloo
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yeah

sly trail
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bc undergrad business doesnt mean much

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professionally

heady igloo
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that’s also a valid option

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which school r u leaning towards

sly trail
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UT lol

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everything else costs too much

heady igloo
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yessir

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hook em 🤘🏾

sly trail
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💯

vestal parrot
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If you would care to list cost of attendance for each school you are contemplating, it will be most helpful

vestal parrot
hallow shore
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plus one

fresh blade
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Was going to say Berkeley because EECS so you'll have little issue paying back loans, but 70k... das 280k for 4 years. Gonna have to go with UTA. Pretty sure a lot of tech companies are moving to Texas anyways

vestal parrot
misty glen
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At that level I would unironically just choose the cheapest one

vestal parrot
fresh blade
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Wow TAMU has 72,000 students...

vestal parrot
misty glen
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If GaTech is cheaper than the others I'd go there. The quality is similar and it let's you do a double major in Math and CS. They also have threads that let's you focus specifically in the part of CS you like so I'd say they have good CS Coursework

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also the UCB thing I'm pretty sure only effects L&S CS students and those who want to switch into CS

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EECS should have no issues

bleak thistle
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fuck dook

sly trail
sly trail
sly trail
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ok @ everyone who was on this thread

UT Austin vs TAMU Full Ride + BS/MD/MS (basically a free bachelors and masters in CS and an MD over the course of 8 years)

misty glen
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woah woah woah UT Austin vs 3 free degrees?

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like a free BS, a free MS, AND a free medical degree?

sly trail
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😭

hallow shore
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ummm

sly trail
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bro no matter what i choose im gonna feel like i messed up

hallow shore
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how??!??!?

sly trail
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also the downside about the a&m thing is that i'll be like tied there for grad school

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or i mean

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its not binding to go there for the 4 years after undergrad

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but like the program will kinda make me want to do that

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instead of going to like another school for grad school

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also a&m is in the middle of nowhere

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and idek if i wanna do an MD but computational bio sounds cool so thats why like premed+cs would be nice

hallow shore
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i feel like TAMU is too good of a deal to pass up on

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however im not sure if grad prestige matters for ur major

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nonetheless you'll save tons of money and be in a good standing financially, regardless of ur salary, if u choose tamu

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you may pay off the money at UT AUSTIN, but 20k/year is stil alot and since you're considering to go to grad school it may become a noticeable burden

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if i were you , i would get that free ride under grad and then go to prestigious grad school (if prestige even matters for ur major)

sly trail
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and im like 99% sure i can make 13k over a summer

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so im not gonna have debt if i go to UT anyways

hallow shore
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mhm maybe it is worth it then

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you also have the honors program thatll boost ur resume/skills

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also 13k over the summer wtf

sly trail
sly trail
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i think it was like 49

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and 75% of freshmen get internships

hollow axle
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For some summers you should be able to def get a good internship

sly trail
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50*40*4*2 = 16k in 2 months

hollow axle
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Im a freshman (not in UT honors) but mine pays 12 bands so it’s def doable

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I think UT is the choice regardless

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UT honors is ridiculously hard to get into no?

sly trail
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no clue

hollow axle
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The whole thing abt in state and “I wanna be away from home I don’t wanna see ppl from high school” literally doesn’t matter trust me

sly trail
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50 kids a year for both the programs i got into (deans and turing)

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which im choosing

hollow axle
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I go to state school from home and it doesn’t affect me at all

sly trail
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theres another one i got into called CSB which is supposedly 30 kids a year and its CBHP (business honors) + cs honors

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but id rather do math+cs i think

hollow axle
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I think those are very selective from what I remember

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100% go UT

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You got some really awesome options tho good work

sly trail
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i think this is the first real convo ive had w u 💀

hollow axle
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Perhaps

sly trail
hollow axle
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I think we talked about NAV once

hollow axle
sly trail
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i mightve been trolling

hollow axle
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Ur not a NAV fan!?!!??!?!

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Sad

sly trail
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like navs good but i dont fr think that nav 🐐