@“Prestigious Nerd” :
"But I will say that the 36% acceptance rate at ucsd probably makes it pretty easy to get into for anyone who’s willing to do undeclared. "
Yes, but switching in to CS after going in as undecided at UCSD probably is as tough or tougher than entering CS out of HS.
If your family can afford OOS tuition, UW-Madison is probably the one top CS school left that isn’t terribly difficult to get in to and where declaring for the CS major is pretty easy.
Otherwise, there are schools like RIT and UT-Dallas (also not extremely difficult to enter) where the CS grads seem to do well (both schools made the top 25 of LinkedIn’s college ranking for CS majors, based on the desirability of the companies where CS majors end up; so the greater the proportion of CS majors a school places in to companies that are considered highly desirable by CS majors, the better a school is ranked):
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/14/10/19/032249/be-true-to-your-cs-school-linkedin-ranks-us-schools-for-job-seeking-programmers
'Zona also makes that list.