Being a high school student applying to college myself, Ragan Wald's weblog (linked below) caused a bit of concern for me. What sort of colleges is Ragan Wald referring to? Are universities with supposedly top notch CS programs beginning to dumb down the curriculum too? I ask this because I am planning to major in CS and actually do want my education to focus on a lot of theory rather than purely practical aspects. I enjoy learning about stuff like machine learning, compiler design, computability theory, NLP, etc. So after reading that article I'm a bit unsure over whether this is a widespread issue for even the best computer science schools. Thanks in advance!
http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/01/no-disrespect.html