Which school has the best Computer Science / Running Program?

Stanford

Do EE and take some programming language electives. Comp a I is a weak major.

lol you think i could get into stanford with those times?

you are probably not too off if you continue to improve

-get good grades

You only need a BS if you just want to work in industry or teach high school. Cal Poly is unranked in the research community but is the best overall CS program for the price. You can save a ton of money in the California State University System at Cal Poly. A Cal Poly CS degree is great in preparation for the top graduate and research programs at places such as Penn, CMU, USC, MIT, Berkeley, Utah, Stanford, UCSD, CU, UT Austin, UCSB, Harvard, UCLA, etc.

Princeton

Kelly Mac best legs & ass wrote:

You only need a BS if you just want to work in industry or teach high school. Cal Poly is unranked in the research community but is the best overall CS program for the price. You can save a ton of money in the California State University System at Cal Poly. A Cal Poly CS degree is great in preparation for the top graduate and research programs at places such as Penn, CMU, USC, MIT, Berkeley, Utah, Stanford, UCSD, CU, UT Austin, UCSB, Harvard, UCLA, etc.

I definitely agree if he is in-state. If he is in a different state, another school in his state could be better.

If you were to try to pick the school with the best of both, I'd probably rank UCLA at the top. Their track program is probably more consistent than Stanford and the academics are slightly better in comp sci.

Cal might be my second choice.

OP: don't necessarily look for the school that is best at both, look for the school that is the best fit at both for you. This needs to include things like the lifestyle of the school. For example, if you are a quiet and studious type, you will not enjoy somewhere like UC Santa Barbara, despite it being a solid academic school.

Kelly Mac best legs & ass wrote:

You only need a BS if you just want to work in industry or teach high school. Cal Poly is unranked in the research community but is the best overall CS program for the price. You can save a ton of money in the California State University System at Cal Poly. A Cal Poly CS degree is great in preparation for the top graduate and research programs at places such as Penn, CMU, USC, MIT, Berkeley, Utah, Stanford, UCSD, CU, UT Austin, UCSB, Harvard, UCLA, etc.

I'd agree Cal Poly is a good choice, but unless he's in-state he's got no chance at a scholarship.

cs kid wrote:

lol you think i could get into stanford with those times?

Not with that attitude

UCSD has some of the best CS/EE programs in the country. The campus has great T&F facilities and an OK Distance/XC coach. Your times would make you a solid recruit for their programs and just about guarantee admission if your scores and grades are above the UC minimums. It is a DII program though.

NCSU

Hellllo wrote:

NCSU

lol

It's not hard. Look up the top CS schools and look up the top track/XC teams. Stanford is a pretty clear answer to your question.

Academic-wise I'm confident I can get into a good CS program. I also really want to run in college and be able to compete. Not train all year long to run one dual meet. That's why a stanford and ucla and many dI schools seem a bit unattractive. From the east coast btw

UCSD for sure!

cs kid wrote:

Academic-wise I'm confident I can get into a good CS program. I also really want to run in college and be able to compete. Not train all year long to run one dual meet. That's why a stanford and ucla and many dI schools seem a bit unattractive. From the east coast btw

If you're strong enough academically to go Ivy, you'd probably--full disclosure: based solely on hearsay and rep--want to go with Cornell. But I'd bet most or all of the Ivies are at least decent in CS.

In any case, if you get that 1600 time under 4:20 next year, I'd bet you'll be hearing from a bunch of colleges regardless. In fact I wouldn't be astonished to learn that you're already hearing from several.

Some (esp. D1) schools tend to do better than others with supporting a traditionally hard academic major like CS (or Engineering) and varsity athletics (including XC/track). For example, Stanford seems to do well with this, but I don't think Cal or UCLA would be as good. Talk to coaches and academic advisers at the schools you are considering. It's unlikely anyone will say it can't be done, but you may find that it is rare. Ask a coach if you can speak to a current or recent athlete on the team who majored in CS and find out how realistic it is to balance out that major and be on the XC/track teams.

Illinois. Wisconsin, also.

The Lane Titans are considered the undisputed Harvard of the Willamette Valley. Lane has the top Computer Science program in the area and competes often at Historic Hayward Field.