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by dspeyer 6276 days ago
University of Washington has the best overall CS department of those three by a fair margin.

At least, that was the general impression of grad schools at UMaryland undergrad, and UWashington alumni are noticeable at both Microsoft and Google (UCLA and UCSD, not so much).

From my brief contact there, the culture is like a toned-down version of UCBerkeley. Whether that's a good thing is up to you.

The weather is as bad as you've heard -- worse because the three monthes of sunshine a year are the three monthes you won't be there.

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The weather is as bad as you've heard -- worse because the three monthes of sunshine a year are the three monthes you won't be there.

FWIW, RIT is the exact same way. Not that I go there, even though I was accepted. I go to the state school down the road — cost of 4 years here is a year and a half at RIT. And it's undergrad. It amounts to the same things being taught in similar manners regardless of where you (or I) happen to be.