Should I do my undergrad in CS/Math at Caltech or Yale?

I made the same decision last year and chose Yale. First of all, Yale and Caltech are VERY different schools. The impression that I got from Caltech was that it was difficult to the point that many students have their spirits broken. read more

There are some noticable difference between the math/CS departments of Caltech and Yale. I can't speak for Yale, but I'll highlight some of the features of the Caltech CS courses. Caltech CS majors tend to be slightly more towards the theoretical side than towards the practical/application side. read more

And Yale Computer Science is fine quality-wise if you want to do theory. However, it is not a strong undergrad CS department relative to Carnegie Mellon, Brown, Stanford, Rice, etc. One of the problems with Yale CS is that Yale does not really encourage an entrepreneurial environment, engineering culture, professional skills, etc. read more