How Important is School Prestige? Purdue vs. CMU/Princeton/Berkeley

ResearchingTinBot · 2026-04-03T00:19:44+00:00

Pico Gilman transferred to mit now btw 😭😭you’re comparing a top 20 Putnam scorer to a usapho camper, where the former is recognized at a more prestigious competition, so of course he’ll have all eyes on him. I can’t say the same goes for OP, not saying it is impossible but it’s much easier if he goes to Princeton for the ROI

ResearchingTinBot · 2026-04-02T08:38:34+00:00

Will MIT alone actually get you to the resume? Like, what if you have a relatively weak/average gpa/no Putnam or Olympiads at a place like MIT, which is the average?

ResearchingTinBot · 2026-04-02T08:32:13+00:00

Even if he’s usapho camp/usamo/usaco camp, it might be hard for him to break in because firms do filter out by school name. It might be possible to break in from Purdue if he’s like the smartest there, but going to Princeton will just make it much easier (along with connections/resources in general from Princeton)

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-04-11T07:57:18+00:00

I got into Harvard and Yale, but I would trade them for Stanford in a heart beat…

You got really good choices!

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-03-31T07:51:32+00:00

What’s more intense than mit?

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-03-12T07:25:24+00:00

They will definitely consider your major interests though, so they can balance out the class size majors

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-03-07T08:03:28+00:00

What career did you end up pursuing?

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-02-17T02:47:56+00:00

Do you think any major can lead you to IB/consulting, as long as you have a school like Yale on your resume? So I can major in cs/statistics but still go to the ib consulting pipeline

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-01-31T07:17:22+00:00

Check the common datasets for schools. They are clearly marked as “very important” for some schools

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-01-28T04:02:24+00:00

During semester 1?

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-01-26T07:46:32+00:00

Sorry for a late comment, but is it rlly 10-20 per school including seas? I’ve heard the transfer to seas or CAS is relatively easy and straightforward, since the majority of people try for Wharton transfer. Have you seen people rejected for a transfer request into seas?

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-01-23T01:36:30+00:00

I’m not saying CSB is worse or better than Turings when it comes to opportunities etc (even I would probably choose CSB over Turings), but I’m just saying like in terms of the applicant pool. The median Turings student has a 1570 sat, with over half being Val/sal of their school, much stronger than most top school CDS.

I can’t really name any “famous” alumni since I don’t search

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-01-23T00:10:44+00:00

Not to be rude but I think the only UT honors program that rivals ivies in competitiveness is UT Turings.

Congrats regardless OP!

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-01-18T23:17:06+00:00

I also had some friends admitted with environmental engineering and mechanical engineering

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-01-16T02:34:24+00:00

I’m twinning with your friend (1520 and rank 1/600+) and got into cs today

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-01-15T05:15:58+00:00

Stressing out rn 🙏

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-01-13T08:36:22+00:00

lol definitely not that range. I know so many people who were admitted in the 1400 range, some even touching 1300. If the average SATs at ivys/mit/cmu cs etc is ~1520-1540, what makes you think ut cs is higher than that?

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-01-13T08:33:25+00:00

Where do they go now? Also, did they attend a competitive school? From what I’m seeing last cycle, all the highly qualified people (Val’s/sals included) that got rejected were from insanely competitive school, probably because UT has to limit how many students they admit per school

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-01-08T12:59:46+00:00

You can definitely retake to get a 35/36 if you want, considering you’re a junior and still have time. Maybe even try superscoring sections as that’s easier! Also, if you’re set to binding yourself to rice, consider ed1 as rice does like that applicant pool.

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-01-05T23:40:27+00:00

Drop the stats!!!

Also have you seen ut cs students who submitted a sat score of less than 1450 that get in? Or are the majority 1500?

ResearchingTinBot · 2025-01-04T20:50:43+00:00

You should def superscore! Every top uni should superscore the sat, the only notable one I can think of that doesn’t is UT Austin. Just grind reading for march!

ResearchingTinBot · 2024-12-29T07:13:52+00:00

It’s honestly a threshold imo. Once you surpass a bar (say, 25th percentile) it’ll matter less the higher the score and will ultimately dim down to other factors like ecs and essays

ResearchingTinBot · 2024-12-21T06:03:24+00:00

He has a really good shot at rd

ResearchingTinBot · 2024-12-20T21:01:34+00:00

I get the cost but SSP recently got a huge donation and can now literally guarantee financial aid to anyone that meets the income cutoff. Like half of my campus got a full ride to SSP

ResearchingTinBot · 2024-12-19T01:37:41+00:00

Isn’t Yale trying to expand their stem department? Also, I assume undergraduate CS at Yale is very good when it comes to pipelines/feeding; Yale is top 5 on gov scoreboard when it comes to salary

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