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Originally Posted by royrules22 1) "CS majors have to choose a "technical support group" consisting of a field of specialization in a separate department at UCLA" What?
2) Exactly how do you rate the people in your CS classes? Uber-geeky, somewhat nerdy, jocks who have no clue wth they are doing there, or something else?
3) You mentioned job recruting on campus. Any chance for us CS undergrads?
4) How would you compare UCLA and UCB's CS program?
5) If I do end up at UCLA, can I hit you up for a research chance? |
1. The technical support group is a cluster of three related upper-division courses in a field outside CS, either in the HSSEAS or in the CL&S. It was intended by the CS Department to encourage us to specialize and apply our knowledge beyond CS, thus making our degrees (more) valuable during this period of outsourcing.
2. 29% uber-geeky, 40% somewhat nerdy, 30% well-rounded types, >1% jocks who have no clue what they are doing here (and leave later on).
3. Of course. About 40% of recruiters on campus look for UCLA CS majors.
4. To be honest I don't know much about UCB's CS program, besides the fact that freshmen enter as "pre-Computer Science" into the CL&S and then have to make a GPA cutoff in the prerequisites to get into the actual CS major during their junior year. That's partially why EECS freshman admissions are so competitive at UCB -- unlike CS, once you're in, you're in for good. CS 61 at UCB is like CS 32 at UCLA but for an entire semester. Feel the burn!
5. That's outside my sphere of influence.
