[Coronita]

Cornell is a great Ivy for Engineering. The nice thing about a lot of the top private schools with large endowments, at least as far as the Ivy's are concerned, is that they have need blind admissions and will make sure if you are accepted that you get a financial aid package that will allow you to attend.

Well, I can say it has a great engineering program. But I'm not sure speaking from experience that is was "better" than some of the UC's.  But I haven't attended other UC's to compare first hand. Only from comparing notes with other friends that have 🙂 From a price perspective, it was much more expensive.

The challenge that I had there was finding decent projects, because at the time you didn't have large corporation sponsors backing a lot of projects. I've told things have changed recently.

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[Coronita]

Cornell is a great Ivy for Engineering. The nice thing about a lot of the top private schools with large endowments, at least as far as the Ivy's are concerned, is that they have need blind admissions and will make sure if you are accepted that you get a financial aid package that will allow you to attend.

Well, I can say it has a great engineering program. But I'm not sure speaking from experience that is was "better" than some of the UC's.  But I haven't attended other UC's to compare first hand. Only from comparing notes with other friends that have 🙂 From a price perspective, it was much more expensive.

The challenge that I had there was finding decent projects, because at the time you didn't have large corporation sponsors backing a lot of projects. I've told things have changed recently.

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[Coronita]

Cornell is a great Ivy for Engineering. The nice thing about a lot of the top private schools with large endowments, at least as far as the Ivy's are concerned, is that they have need blind admissions and will make sure if you are accepted that you get a financial aid package that will allow you to attend.

Well, I can say it has a great engineering program. But I'm not sure speaking from experience that is was "better" than some of the UC's.  But I haven't attended other UC's to compare first hand. Only from comparing notes with other friends that have 🙂 From a price perspective, it was much more expensive.

The challenge that I had there was finding decent projects, because at the time you didn't have large corporation sponsors backing a lot of projects. I've told things have changed recently.

[img_assist|nid=5962|title=selfportrait|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80]

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[Coronita]

Cornell is a great Ivy for Engineering. The nice thing about a lot of the top private schools with large endowments, at least as far as the Ivy's are concerned, is that they have need blind admissions and will make sure if you are accepted that you get a financial aid package that will allow you to attend.

Well, I can say it has a great engineering program. But I'm not sure speaking from experience that is was "better" than some of the UC's.  But I haven't attended other UC's to compare first hand. Only from comparing notes with other friends that have 🙂 From a price perspective, it was much more expensive.

The challenge that I had there was finding decent projects, because at the time you didn't have large corporation sponsors backing a lot of projects. I've told things have changed recently.

[img_assist|nid=5962|title=selfportrait|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80]

—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[Coronita]

Cornell is a great Ivy for Engineering. The nice thing about a lot of the top private schools with large endowments, at least as far as the Ivy's are concerned, is that they have need blind admissions and will make sure if you are accepted that you get a financial aid package that will allow you to attend.

Well, I can say it has a great engineering program. But I'm not sure speaking from experience that is was "better" than some of the UC's.  But I haven't attended other UC's to compare first hand. Only from comparing notes with other friends that have 🙂 From a price perspective, it was much more expensive.

The challenge that I had there was finding decent projects, because at the time you didn't have large corporation sponsors backing a lot of projects. I've told things have changed recently.

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[Coronita]

Haven't heard great things about Riverside (I don't know).

If I were applying today strictly at UC, I'd consider in the following order

Berkeley

UCLA

UCSD

Irvine

 

When I was applying, UCSD was easy to get in for engineering. My understanding it's not the case anymore. Ever since Irwin Jacobs (former Qualcomm CEO) donated to UCSD engineering, and with the tie-in of professors like Prof Wolfe to Qualcomm, UCSD has one of the best wireless engineering programs around. And the interns I've seen from the CS department are pretty top notch. If by chance your kid can't get into a UC school, one school worth mentioning would be Cal State San Luis Obispo engineering. Lot of people I ran into from the bay area went there and were pretty good. The good thing about america really is you have a plethora of colleges, so not getting into one top one isn't the end of the world. Also, being your child is probably not asian, you at least don't need to worry about quota limitations for admissions (yes, I'm sure some of you think there is no such thing as quotas. Bullsh!t there isn't)

There's also private schools like CalTech and Harvey Mudd, if (1) you kid can get in, (2) you can afford the private tuition and or qualify for a scholarship/financial aid  and most importantly (3) if you son doesn't mind be cut off from the rest of the female population for 4 years and be surrounded by a bunch of freaks and geeks (sorry if I'm offending anyone here from those schools). Even though I probably wouldn't gotten in there anyway, I wouldn't have gone. Some people there are just to freaky for my taste.  I really wanted to go MIT or Stanford, but didn't make it. My older relative got into both and just about everything else she applied to, but chose to go to a liberal school (Berkeley)

 

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[Coronita]

Haven't heard great things about Riverside (I don't know).

If I were applying today strictly at UC, I'd consider in the following order

Berkeley

UCLA

UCSD

Irvine

 

When I was applying, UCSD was easy to get in for engineering. My understanding it's not the case anymore. Ever since Irwin Jacobs (former Qualcomm CEO) donated to UCSD engineering, and with the tie-in of professors like Prof Wolfe to Qualcomm, UCSD has one of the best wireless engineering programs around. And the interns I've seen from the CS department are pretty top notch. If by chance your kid can't get into a UC school, one school worth mentioning would be Cal State San Luis Obispo engineering. Lot of people I ran into from the bay area went there and were pretty good. The good thing about america really is you have a plethora of colleges, so not getting into one top one isn't the end of the world. Also, being your child is probably not asian, you at least don't need to worry about quota limitations for admissions (yes, I'm sure some of you think there is no such thing as quotas. Bullsh!t there isn't)

There's also private schools like CalTech and Harvey Mudd, if (1) you kid can get in, (2) you can afford the private tuition and or qualify for a scholarship/financial aid  and most importantly (3) if you son doesn't mind be cut off from the rest of the female population for 4 years and be surrounded by a bunch of freaks and geeks (sorry if I'm offending anyone here from those schools). Even though I probably wouldn't gotten in there anyway, I wouldn't have gone. Some people there are just to freaky for my taste.  I really wanted to go MIT or Stanford, but didn't make it. My older relative got into both and just about everything else she applied to, but chose to go to a liberal school (Berkeley)

 

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[Coronita]

Haven't heard great things about Riverside (I don't know).

If I were applying today strictly at UC, I'd consider in the following order

Berkeley

UCLA

UCSD

Irvine

 

When I was applying, UCSD was easy to get in for engineering. My understanding it's not the case anymore. Ever since Irwin Jacobs (former Qualcomm CEO) donated to UCSD engineering, and with the tie-in of professors like Prof Wolfe to Qualcomm, UCSD has one of the best wireless engineering programs around. And the interns I've seen from the CS department are pretty top notch. If by chance your kid can't get into a UC school, one school worth mentioning would be Cal State San Luis Obispo engineering. Lot of people I ran into from the bay area went there and were pretty good. The good thing about america really is you have a plethora of colleges, so not getting into one top one isn't the end of the world. Also, being your child is probably not asian, you at least don't need to worry about quota limitations for admissions (yes, I'm sure some of you think there is no such thing as quotas. Bullsh!t there isn't)

There's also private schools like CalTech and Harvey Mudd, if (1) you kid can get in, (2) you can afford the private tuition and or qualify for a scholarship/financial aid  and most importantly (3) if you son doesn't mind be cut off from the rest of the female population for 4 years and be surrounded by a bunch of freaks and geeks (sorry if I'm offending anyone here from those schools). Even though I probably wouldn't gotten in there anyway, I wouldn't have gone. Some people there are just to freaky for my taste.  I really wanted to go MIT or Stanford, but didn't make it. My older relative got into both and just about everything else she applied to, but chose to go to a liberal school (Berkeley)

 

[img_assist|nid=5962|title=selfportrait|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80]

—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[Coronita]

Haven't heard great things about Riverside (I don't know).

If I were applying today strictly at UC, I'd consider in the following order

Berkeley

UCLA

UCSD

Irvine

 

When I was applying, UCSD was easy to get in for engineering. My understanding it's not the case anymore. Ever since Irwin Jacobs (former Qualcomm CEO) donated to UCSD engineering, and with the tie-in of professors like Prof Wolfe to Qualcomm, UCSD has one of the best wireless engineering programs around. And the interns I've seen from the CS department are pretty top notch. If by chance your kid can't get into a UC school, one school worth mentioning would be Cal State San Luis Obispo engineering. Lot of people I ran into from the bay area went there and were pretty good. The good thing about america really is you have a plethora of colleges, so not getting into one top one isn't the end of the world. Also, being your child is probably not asian, you at least don't need to worry about quota limitations for admissions (yes, I'm sure some of you think there is no such thing as quotas. Bullsh!t there isn't)

There's also private schools like CalTech and Harvey Mudd, if (1) you kid can get in, (2) you can afford the private tuition and or qualify for a scholarship/financial aid  and most importantly (3) if you son doesn't mind be cut off from the rest of the female population for 4 years and be surrounded by a bunch of freaks and geeks (sorry if I'm offending anyone here from those schools). Even though I probably wouldn't gotten in there anyway, I wouldn't have gone. Some people there are just to freaky for my taste.  I really wanted to go MIT or Stanford, but didn't make it. My older relative got into both and just about everything else she applied to, but chose to go to a liberal school (Berkeley)

 

[img_assist|nid=5962|title=selfportrait|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80]

—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[Coronita]

Haven't heard great things about Riverside (I don't know).

If I were applying today strictly at UC, I'd consider in the following order

Berkeley

UCLA

UCSD

Irvine

 

When I was applying, UCSD was easy to get in for engineering. My understanding it's not the case anymore. Ever since Irwin Jacobs (former Qualcomm CEO) donated to UCSD engineering, and with the tie-in of professors like Prof Wolfe to Qualcomm, UCSD has one of the best wireless engineering programs around. And the interns I've seen from the CS department are pretty top notch. If by chance your kid can't get into a UC school, one school worth mentioning would be Cal State San Luis Obispo engineering. Lot of people I ran into from the bay area went there and were pretty good. The good thing about america really is you have a plethora of colleges, so not getting into one top one isn't the end of the world. Also, being your child is probably not asian, you at least don't need to worry about quota limitations for admissions (yes, I'm sure some of you think there is no such thing as quotas. Bullsh!t there isn't)

There's also private schools like CalTech and Harvey Mudd, if (1) you kid can get in, (2) you can afford the private tuition and or qualify for a scholarship/financial aid  and most importantly (3) if you son doesn't mind be cut off from the rest of the female population for 4 years and be surrounded by a bunch of freaks and geeks (sorry if I'm offending anyone here from those schools). Even though I probably wouldn't gotten in there anyway, I wouldn't have gone. Some people there are just to freaky for my taste.  I really wanted to go MIT or Stanford, but didn't make it. My older relative got into both and just about everything else she applied to, but chose to go to a liberal school (Berkeley)

 

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[Coronita]

Pizzaman,

Do you live in Riverside County? If so, could you give me an insight into how the local economy is doing out there? 

 

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[Coronita]

Pizzaman,

Do you live in Riverside County? If so, could you give me an insight into how the local economy is doing out there? 

 

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[Coronita]

Pizzaman,

Do you live in Riverside County? If so, could you give me an insight into how the local economy is doing out there? 

 

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[Coronita]

Pizzaman,

Do you live in Riverside County? If so, could you give me an insight into how the local economy is doing out there? 

 

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—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[Coronita]

Pizzaman,

Do you live in Riverside County? If so, could you give me an insight into how the local economy is doing out there? 

 

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