CHANCE ME FOR GTECH/CORNELL/CMU/VTECH?

XtremeBlaze777
Sun, 05 Jan 2020 21:42:00 +0000

21DTOWNARC:

Thank you for all the responses, if anyone knows the difference between the majors of CS and Computer Engineering?

Although there is overlap between the courses you take, they are extremely different. CS is software and math focused and is the most competitive/desired major rn. CompEng is, well, building computers. Both have software elements to them but a CS degree is more likely to lead to software developer. While CS has an architecture component, it is typically only one course whereas CompEng focuses a lot more on physical hardware. Both are competitive majors and lead to high salary. You should look into the required courses to graduate to get the best idea of the differences between the two. You might be surprised at the small amount of coding courses because CS focuses a lot more on math and algorithms. For CompEng, you will have to go through multivar and maybe diff eq or stats. CS requires all those and linear algebra, discrete math, various courses on proofs and algorithms, half of your “CS” courses are math courses in disguise. When I was touring CMU SCS, they said about 30% of freshman had never coded in their life but were strong in math. One more key difference is that CompEng students are all extremely STEM focused and basically have their 4-year plan already laid out by the college because there are so many STEM reqs to complete. While this is also true for most BS CS programs in engineering schools, a lot of universities will offer a BA CS in their arts college which has much looser requirements (though some people might be turned off by the increased humanities reqs) and allows you to take courses you actually want to, you can also take those engineering reqs if you want but you get to choose.
PS: I am biased because I am applying to BA CS so I know much more about that than CompEng or BS CS.

Also, like others say, UW GPA?