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<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I don’t know IF U-Michigan charges Math majors extra tuition, but after looking at the Math and CS programs, I can select the Math major with the “Discrete and Algorithmic Methods” option (with a few more CS electives) and get hired just as easily for the same software positions.</p>
<p>I am glad I learned a LONG time ago about 1) how college is a business 2) how much WE get so caught up in so much extra details like AP credits, school name, exact name of major, etc and 3) how the employers seem to care less and less about #2. </p>
<p>When I did not get admitted to the undergraduate CS program (because I did not have a 3.4), I switched to Math and kept it moving. I delayed grad school initially because I thought that 3.0 was the “no exceptions cut-off” only to find out that an employer relationship with a given school and an employer “voucher of payment” can get you out of the 3.0 and even the GRE. I also found out that if a certain school allowed more than the usual 6 transfer graduate courses (my grad school allowed 15), you could basically do a similar “community college/4-year/2+2” route in grad school using grad credits.</p>
<p>After all of that, you have to sometimes correct the profs because their theoretical approach would not work in the working world (after you have already designed/developed systems). Of course, you would correct them in a nice way :-)</p>
<p>OK, I am ranting but college is a business and sometimes a borderline “racket”.</p>