Am I crazy to pick McKenna over HMC for Comp Sci?

musisat
Sun, 11 May 2014 02:36:30 +0000

So I was recently talking to a CMC guy who’s a CS major but basically took all of his CS classes at Mudd. He says that he was and is much more interested in CMC’s social culture than Mudd’s so it works out for him to be a CMC student while taking most of his major classes at Mudd. The problem with this is that the CS major became hugely popular in the last three years, so many CS classes at Mudd and Pomona are over-enrolled. Mudd recently started limiting the enrollment in their CS classes for students at other campuses. Also, CMC’s CS program is universally thought to be mediocre.

Basically, CS is a tricky field to get into if you want to be able to sign up for classes. That is probably true of almost any school you go to. I guess I would suggest choosing a school based on where you would like to spend your time.